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Religious Zionism is under attack in Israel - opinion

The attacks have broadened to include assaults on all religious women who do 'only' national service and religious men who do 'only' hesder service, alternating yeshiva learning and active service.

 Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Kalman Ber visits the Bnei David study hall, where Jewish philosophy is also taught.
‘HE WAS always looking out for others – his brothers, his friends, even complete strangers.’ The Shrem family during happier times.

A hero's legacy: Remembering fallen IDF soldier Shlomi Shrem's faith, love, sacrifice

 Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir.

53% of national religious public feels they are not properly represented in Knesset, survey reveals

 IDF SOLDIERS take part in an army stretcher drill. Israel’s population also needs to carry its share of the burden.

My Word: Wide awake in a war


Jewish-religious, Druze schools lead national school rankings

Some 46 high schools in Israel achieved 100% matriculation eligibility. Most of these schools were state Jewish-religious schools. Five were religious-ecclesiastical schools in the Arab sector.

A GROUP of junior high school students are demanding the government fulfill its educational duty to them.

Beyond the trial: Investigating Kafka in Jerusalem

“As Franz Kafka awoke one morning from uneasy dreams,” Roth wrote in 1973, “he found himself transformed in his bed into a father, a writer, and a Jew.” And a Jerusalemite.

Kafka in Jerusalem

Blue and White to target moderate religious-Zionist vote after Right unites

“There is a great lack of ethics in the way corruption has been discussed as something trivial, and setting a personal example as something trivial,” said Hendel.

 Blue and White MK Yoaz Hendel at a recent parlour meeting for the religious-Zionist community

Labor and religious Zionism – together again

Four decades after undoing their historic alliance, the Jewish state's twin founders are meeting again – on their deathbeds.

Picture of Labor Party Chairman Avi Gabbay

Where is the National-Religious outrage about Jewish terror?

The idea of Jewish terrorism should be shocking and unthinkable, and yet when such incidents occur condemnation from community leaders, especially rabbis, has been scant.

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Australian Zionist leaders call on Druckman to step down

In a letter disseminated Thursday, the organizations said, “It is abhorrent to us that Rabbi Druckman continued to offer his sympathy and support to a convicted child sex abuser."

Rabbi Haim Druckman speaking in Ofra

Druckman says National Religious should vote for Bayit Yehudi, not Bennett

“Bennett and Shaked have established a general, not a religious party,” Rabbi Haim Druckman told 'The Jerusalem Post.'

Rabbi Haim Druckman studying with Simcha Goldin, father of slain soldier Hadar Goldin at a Torah study event in December, 2018, held by the Union of Hesder Yeshivas

A quarter of young religious women enlisting in the IDF, study finds

Increasing enlistment among young women from national-religious sector flies in the face of a campaign by hard-line rabbis against the trend.

The IDF's new coed combat units are the result of a long struggle for the integration of women into fighting roles in the army

Jerusalem elections: A game of musical chairs

It seems that at the next council, the national religious sector will be headed by two religious representatives who share almost all the same ideals but don’t speak to each other.

Rachel Azaria is running for Jerusalem's mayor at the head of the Yerushalmim party

Teaching Evolution In The Start-Up Nation

Educating students on Darwin’s theory of evolution—especially with regard to mankind’s common origins—can be tricky in Israel, teachers say.

A detail of British artist John Collier's 1883 painting of Charles Darwin is displayed as part of an exhibition in Darwin's former home.