This catastrophic situation in Israel is the fault of the haredi leadership.

Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett responds to destructive haredi riot, suggesting complete end to funding and solution ...

A recent study found that by 2050, nearly one in four Israelis will be ultra-Orthodox; leaders have only started to grapple with how that will change the country The post Bnei Brak riot shows that to ...

The protesters initially disrupted traffic both around the entrance to Jerusalem and on Highway 38. Police announced that ...

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An Israel Democracy Institute researcher says the violence reflects long-standing shifts within haredi society and mounting friction over IDF conscription.

Minister of Aliyah and Integration Ofir Sofer (Religious Zionist Party) expressed clear positions on the issue of drafting the haredim, calling for a gradual process based on trust and understanding - ...

Noah Efron, a young American-born graduate student at Tel Aviv University, was standing in the cafeteria line, just before the outbreak of the first Iraq War, when he overheard one female student say ...

Two weeks ago the Shmooze was a bit bamboozled by the complete loss of any sense of proportion by Israel’s Sephardi Chief Rabbi. Now, rabbinic melodrama seems to be spreading. Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar ...

We have raised a generation on a steady diet of contempt.

Sam Sokol is the Times of Israel's political correspondent. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the ...

When it comes to off-the-cuff remarks, we all know that stuff happens. Jokes are made that blur the boundaries of decency, people get offended, and apologies are (sometimes) made. And when it comes to ...