A class by Rabbi Heschel Greenberg on the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah: Rambam requires salt on independent wine offerings because ...
Four major bills passed during the Knesset’s final blitz, with implications for the IDF, the judiciary, state benefits and ...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu backed a series of laws undermining legal oversight of the government, benefiting allied ...
A special daily Siyum Mesechta will take place at 770 Eastern Parkway throughout the Nine Days, each night at 9:45 PM.
Israel’s Supreme Court, sitting as the High Court of Justice, on Wednesday temporarily blocked a law that froze the arrests of Haredi yeshivah students who evade military service. The judges argued ...
Lawmakers voted in a marathon session on Monday and Tuesday to both freeze the arrests of ultra-Orthodox draft evaders and to ...
Viewed individually, these initiatives appear to be about technical legal questions that might appear arcane to anyone not ...
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Does protesting the draft count as Torah study, too?

Here’s my religious Zionist response to Israel’s Haredi draft bill, the IDF manpower crisis, and the tension between Torah ...
Israel's parliament on Monday passed a law declaring the study of Jewish religious texts a "fundamental value" of the state, a move widely seen as strengthening the ultra-Orthodox community's case for ...
Israel's parliament on Monday night gave final approval to a new Basic Law declaring Torah study a foundational value of the Jewish state. The 120-member Knesset passed the Basic Law: Torah Study in ...
Coalition secures final approval of flagship Haredi-backed Basic Law as part of a broader end-of-term deal trading ...
The haredi-backed Basic Law passed its final Knesset votes after weeks of coalition tensions and warnings that it could ...