From gender roles to religious authority, American-trained leaders transformed key debates in Israeli Judaism.

In recent days, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has taken actions that have made the relationship between his office and some Jewish New ...

After years of court battles, Israel will allow women to take the exams men take to become rabbis. It is a step toward expanding women's leadership roles in Orthodox Judaism.

For most of the past 17 years, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has remained in power due in part to a tight ...

Holding placards calling for "justice," "trust" and "peace," religious leaders led hundreds of peace activists, Jews, Muslims ...

For months, we have been witnessing, from members of the coalition, a campaign of insults, delegitimization, and incitement ...

The post Knesset panel starts discussing Western Wall bill aimed at banning any activity prohibited by Orthodox Chief ...

Israel could become home to the majority of the world’s Jews within the next decade, according to a report on global Jewish demographics, one of the key findings of a sweeping study on the future of ...

When I first met Ben Baader more than a decade ago, I was doing interviews for a PhD dissertation on the lives of transgender Jews with an Orthodox background. Orthodox Jewish life is deeply gendered.

From the blog of Joshua Z. Rokach at The Times of Israel ...

Piker, who has said he'd choose Hamas over Israel "every single time," is scheduled to make appearances in the UK in early June.