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, chaired by ...

Hundreds of thousands of haredi Orthodox Jewish men joined a mass protest in Jerusalem on Thursday to rail against the Israeli government’s efforts to enlist yeshiva students into the military.

Dozens of students from the Combat Haredi Hesder Yeshiva recently returned from a transformative journey in Poland, a trip that deeply connected them to their roots, their history, and most ...

Eighty-five percent of non-Haredi Israeli Jews support revoking benefits from and imposing sanctions on ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers, according to a poll conducted by the Israel Democracy Institute ...

Israel is a nation at war. From Gaza and Lebanon to the West Bank and Iran, the Israel Defense Forces are stretched thin. Yet tens of thousands of able-bodied Haredi men remain exempt from military or ...

"Without Torah students, we have no existence as a Jewish people. Without Torah students, the State of Israel cannot continue," Gafni commented, referring to the haredi draft law. Finance Minister ...

Religious switching into and out of Judaism is rare in Israel, the only country where Jews are a majority of the population. Fewer than 1% of Israelis who were raised Jewish say they belong to a ...

CITYWIDE — A PROTEST AGAINST ISRAEL’S FORCED CONSCRIPTION takes place in New York City on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 19, at the Israeli consulate in Manhattan. The Central Rabbinical Congress which ...

(JTA) — Hundreds of thousands of haredi Orthodox Jewish men joined a mass protest in Jerusalem on Thursday to rail against the Israeli government’s efforts to enlist yeshiva students into the military ...