Hesder

About this time every year, 12th-grade boys begin contemplating their futures. In the national religious community, the boys are lectured by their…

Calls are mounting for disciplinary action to be taken against Paratroopers Brigade commander Col. Aharon Haliva, who reportedly said that he hates…

Hesder Yeshiva head and former MK Rabbi Haim Druckman on Sunday warned of the dangers of renting or selling apartments to Israeli-Arabs, despite the…

IT’S CUSTOMARY at national day celebrations hosted by the heads of foreign missions for a cabinet minister to bring greetings. Environmental…

A hesder yeshiva is an institution of higher religious learning which classically structures itself around a fiveyear program combining the study of…

Hundreds of former students of prominent national religious Rabbi Mordechai “Moti” Elon have signed a petition this week defending their former…

Two weeks ago, this paper described in an editorial entitled “A wrong-headed change on IDF exemptions for haredim” how the government succumbed to…

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

The police’s announcement on Sunday that there was enough evidence to pursue sex crimes charges against Rabbi Mordechai “Moti” Elon was greeted with…

A rally to commemorate the murder of two gay youth at a Tel Aviv community center a year ago and protest violence against gays in Israeli society was…

Dozens of Orthodox rabbis and educators have signed a statement of principles on the “place of Jews with a homosexual orientation in our community”…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu eulogized Rabbi Yehuda Amital upon hearing of his death on Friday. "Rabbi Amital who also fought in the War of…

Rabbi Yehuda Amital, founder and former head of the Har Etzion Yeshiva, passed away overnight Thursday at the age of 85. Amital was one of religious…

The Tel Aviv Municipality on Thursday distanced itself from a letter signed by 25 rabbis imploring residents not to rent property to foreign workers…

Four years of intermittent controversy will come to an end in the near future when IDF Chief Rabbi Brig.-Gen, Avichai Ronsky steps down from his…

The IDF Home Front Command, the National Emergency Authority, search and rescue forces and other institution began on Sunday morning to prepare for…

Unlike members of their peer generation in most other countries, Israelis are two, three and even more years behind in enrolling for university…

‘Affordable housing’Sir, – As an ordinary citizen struggling to buy a basic apartment in Israel, I  was surprised to read in “The sky’s the limit”…

The Har Bracha yeshiva on Monday recommended to students interested in combining torah studies with military service to transfer to other seminaries,…

Last week as I was flying back to Israel from the United States, I wassitting next to two elderly women. These ladies were very anxious asthey…