Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz

The recent statements of a few prominent rabbis and politicians have drawn heated responses, with some denouncing them as undemocratic and racist,…

Hundreds of people visited the gravesite of Rabbi Avraham HaCohen Kook at the Mount of Olives cemetery last Friday morning to commemorate the 75th…

As the din of the World Cup vuvuzelas faded, South Africa’s visiting Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein quietly deplored attempts in the international…

How the citizens of Israel speak about and to one another makes a great deal of difference. If anyone should understand that it is Daniel Gordis,…

The state, ruled the High Court on Monday, can no longer give special treatment to students of the Torah when it hands out welfare payments. Men who…

The planned fortified emergency wing hopes to improve the hospital’s woefully insufficient resources to provide urgent care for the region’s growing…

The inclusion of women in the army roiled the state in its early years, and continues to remain controversial within the religious community. The IDF…

Ongoing external threats have diverted us from confronting the burgeoning haredi crisis which is rapidly developing into a national…

Ongoing external threats have diverted us from confronting the burgeoning haredi crisis which is rapidly developing into a national…

Halachic questions about crossing the International Date Line (IDL) became pervasive in the 20th century, when fast international journeys became…

United Torah Judaism rejected Monday an attempt at compromise on the issue of the induction of religious women into the IDF. "The prime minister…

One of the most common stereotypes of haredi Jews is that they are automatons, whose entire lives are determined by directives from the Torah leaders…

The propriety of using microphones during synagogue Shabbat services generated major disputes within and between the Orthodox and Conservative…

I never met a more refined or dignified person than Rabbi Shlomo Lorincz, who passed away last week at 92. "He's a prince," I thought to myself 16…

Rabbi Shlomo Lorincz, a veteran haredi politician, died Monday at the age of 91 due to heart failure. Lorincz served as an Agudat Yisrael MK for 33…

The 70,000-plus residents of Modi'in, Israel's young, rapidly-growing "City of the Future," are a bourgeois bunch who care everything about "quality…

Dudi Zilbershlag has reached the end of his tether. After two decades in which he was one of the outspoken voices of the haredi community, he…

When the United Jewish Communities (UJC) of North America made its plans for this year's General Assembly, now taking place in Jerusalem to mark…

What do I do when my baby cries? How do I know what he wants and needs? Am I doing the right things as a parent? According to developmental and…

Missed opportunitiesSir, - What a contrast! Here in Jerusalem, the haredi and Arab populations are not happy about the secular Zionist State, but how…