The ruling does not call for the strictly Orthodox rabbinate to ordain women as rabbis but opens up to women the body’s ...

Council of Torah Sages decries 'persecution against yeshiva students,' instructs party representatives 'to immediately resign ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government faces imminent collapse after the ultra-Orthodox Shas party announced its resignation from the government on July 16 over a dispute ...

Shas departs over failure to enshrine ultraorthodox military exemption but says it will not work to topple administration ...

On Tuesday, the Agudat Yisrael Party, along with its partner Degel HaTorah – forming the United Torah Judaism alliance – also ...

Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Shas Party announced Wednesday that its ministers are resigning from Prime Minister Benjamin ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suffered a major political blow on Wednesday, with a key governing partner ...

The Shas party decided to exit the Israeli government and coalition following a meeting of its ruling Council of Torah Sages ...

If the draft exemption law that drew Haredi parties into government isn't happening, then politics does nothing but sully the 'authentic Jews' ...

As UTJ exits coalition, internal tensions within haredi bloc resurface as divide deepens between Gur-affiliated factions and ...

Despite claiming otherwise, Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Yuli Edelstein breached his June 12 compromise with the Haredi parties on enlistment, a coalitio ...

Jewish communities across Europe "remain horrified of what took place in Antwerp" on May 14, the rabbis and Jewish leaders wrote.The post 60 Jewish leaders urge EU to condemn Belgium ...