Degel HaTorah

Two days after the spiritual leadership of the Ashkenazi haredim convened Sunday night to confront what they consider Education Minister Gideon…

Haredi defiance of Education Minister Gideon Sa’ar’s declared crackdown on their state-funded schools remained unanswered on Monday, after the…

Despite scattered threats of protests from a handful of religious activists, organizers of this year’s Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem are cautiously…

By now its unmistakable.Conflicts between the secular and haredi (ultra-Orthodox) sectors of Israeli society are increasing exponentially, with both…

THE MODEST JERUSALEM home of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, former chief rabbi and ever-present spiritual leader of the Sephardi ultra-Orthodox Shas party, has…

At long last, even if years too late, Israelis woke up this week to the realization that we face yet another existential threat. Yes, it took 100,000…

Shock and stupefaction are the major reactions expressed by most of the haredi representatives – whether they are municipal employees or elected – to…

Ramat Shlomo, the first exclusively haredi neighborhood built beyond the Green Line in Jerusalem, was originally slated to be the site for a…

IT WAS political playtime on Monday when Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu took time out for a few moves in a game of chess with Israeli…

The coalition crisis over Israel Beiteinu’s conversion bill is solvable, Shas officials said Monday, hours after Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman…

On Purim almost 80 years ago, when he was just 16, Menahem Porush was expelled from the Etz Haim Yeshiva in Jerusalem for entertaining his fellow…

All but one of the 17 political parties which contested the 2009 national elections and submitted their financial records on time observed the Party…

Every Shabbat since it opened on November 1, the Macaroni restaurant at 28 King George Avenue has been the target of haredi demonstrators protesting…

Rahamim Maloul, the newly elected haredi mayor of predominantly secular Rehovot, said Thursday that Anglo and secular residents did not have to be…

Kosher supervision via video camera, automation of the production line and the use of non-Jewish workers are some of the creative solutions being…

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…

Q Can you explain the halachic debates regarding the propriety of trading land for peace?- D.F., Ra'ananaA Based on anecdotal evidence, I would…

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…

Mayor Nir Barkat experienced a rude awakening regarding the realities of Jerusalem politics last weekend when thousands of haredim rioted in response…

Itzhak Pindrus may be a Lithuanian Hassid, but as the 37-year-old son of American immigrants, he says, "There are no Hassidic or Lithuanian ways to…