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ICE COLD AIR RATTLES THE corrugated tin roof and bursts through the gaping windows. Through the vacant entrance, its wide doors long gone, replaced…

ANY AUSTRALIAN ambassador would have been pleased to host a reception promoting Australian wines, but in the case of incumbent Andrea Faulkner, it…

Even Quentin Tarantino couldn’t imagine this script. A 20-year-old Belize-born New York street rapper with an Ethiopian Jewish maternal grandmother…

While the legacy of the Ba’al Shem Tov and Hassidism lives on in our day, there were some thinkers who surmised that the innovations of Hassidism…

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

An expedition of Israeli scholars departed Monday for Ukraine on a mission to preserve the rich Jewish history of Galicia, a rural province split…

Deputy Health Minister Ya’acov Litzman is not considering leaving politics ahead of the next election, sources close to him said Tuesday, denying a…

You wouldn’t have known it from the stillness and sleepiness in this haredi settlement in Samaria, but Sunday June 6 was a big day for Emmanuel. In…

WHILE THE guest list for the bar mitzva of Avraham Shmuel Zvi Rokeach, the grandson of the Belzer Rebbe, Rabbi Yissachar Dov Rokeach, was composed…

On Tuesday, the National Planning Councilsubcommittee responsible for general planning principles recommendedthat the National Planning Council…

WHILE NO one would wish to rob any of the valiant people who were involved in the struggle for Soviet Jewry of the recognition due to them, there is…

A humongous hangar that will serve as a house of prayer for the holidays has been constructed in Bnei Brak to accommodate between 6,000 and 7,000…

Haredi members of the Jerusalem City Council said Sunday they would never compromise over the opening of a parking lot on Shabbat. "Just look at the…

The Israel Medical Association (IMA) intends to petition the High Court of Justice at the start of next week over Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's…

Amid protests from public health experts that a full-fledged health minister is needed in the third-largest government ministry, United Torah Judaism…

United Torah Judaism and Shas made a major effort to encourage party supporters to get out to the polls to vote Tuesday, as a relatively high turnout…

Just ahead of the midnight deadline on Sunday, Degel Hatorah and Agudat Yisrael decided to run together again as United Torah Judaism in February's…

Shas stands to gain electoral power as both the modern Orthodox and Ashkenazi haredi right-wing parties remain wracked by infighting, haredi…

To mark its 10th anniversary, Kolech, the modern Orthodox women's organization, plans to begin training women to serve in the future as dayanim…

Rehov Hedva Rashish, Petah TikvaWho was Hedva Rashish after whom a long, leafy pedestrian walkway in Petah Tikva was named more than 30 years ago?…