NEW YORK — Frieda Vizel left an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect in New York in a crisis of faith at 25. But instead of cutting ...

Right-wing lawmakers assail Moshe Gafni, whose party has threatened to bolt Netanyahu's coalition if it does not pass a law ...

Haredi Jews (the word comes from the Hebrew word “hared,” meaning “to tremble”) have erected strong and seemingly impregnable barriers to any outside influence.

Ultra-Orthodox, Religious Zionist factions clash over management of rebuilt Tiferet Yisrael; critics fear site will be closed ...

While Israeli Jews are subject to a mandatory draft at age 18 — and regular reserve duty for decades afterward — an exception is made for the growing number of haredi Orthodox Israelis, who ...

The founder and editor-in-chief of Shtetl is Naftuli Moster, a 37 year-old activist-turned-journalist.Moster says the website will show that, just like those small Jewish villages, the Haredi ...

Haredi parties express anger over stalled Draft Law negotiations, warn voting boycott will continue until breakthrough is reached.

No more excuses: It's time for haredi Jews to serve in the IDF - editorial Zionism is not a secular ideology to be shunned; it is the modern manifestation of a 2,000-year-old hope.

This week, thousands of Haredi Jews are making a pilgrimage to the gravesite of Rabbi Elazar Shach to mark the 23rd anniversary of his death on the 16th day of the Hebrew month of Cheshvan. But if ...

A Haredi Jewish soldier is kissed his family member after attending a swearing-in ceremony in the IDF Nahal Haredi unit, May 26, 2012. The Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee ...