One Palestinian killed by Israeli army in Gaza while two Palestinians, including a child, are shot dead in West Bank.

Hanukkah is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one ...

A bill to draft ultra-Orthodox Jews into military service has led to protests that have snarled traffic in Tel Aviv. In June 2024, Israel's Supreme Court ruled that the decades-long exemption for ...

(RNS) — I’m sure you’ve heard the gag about how ultra-Orthodox Jews supposedly consummate their marriages by having sex through a hole in a sheet. It is one of those persistent Jewish urban myths, and ...

new video loaded: Inside the Ultra-Orthodox Fight Against Israel’s Draft transcript For the first time in decades, ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel are being called to serve in the country’s military.

A new draft law on conscripting ultra-Orthodox Jews, whose support is crucial for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, has sparked uproar in Israel, with the opposition denouncing it as a ...

Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox men covered the entrance to Jerusalem in a sea of black Thursday to protest plans to draft them into the military, singing, clapping and holding signs saying they ...

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men protest against plans to force them to serve in the Israeli military, in Jerusalem, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) JERUSALEM — Tens of thousands of ...