Freedom of religion in israel

Simchat Torah: Divine fire and national legacy

Should Torah exist apart from society or be fully integrated within it?

SIMCHAT TORAH at the Gush Etzion junction.
 Muslims pray on the first Friday of Ramadan, at the Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound in Jerusalem's Old City, March 7, 2025

Police on guard as tens of thousands of Muslims hold Ramadan prayers on Temple Mount

 A WOMAN walks in the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City. The Armenians in Jerusalem are one of the smallest and most vulnerable communities; they are neither Palestinian nor Israeli and have no interest in being dragged into the ongoing conflict, says the writer.

Jerusalem’s Armenian Quarter under threat: Urgent call for protection - opinion

 NATIONAL SECURITY Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir walks near the Western Wall, after visiting the temple Mount on Tisha B’Av, earlier this month.

US criticizes Ben Gvir's Temple Mount visit, sparking debate on Jewish prayer rights - opinion


Israeli journalist calls religious Zionists more dangerous than Hezbollah

Defense Minister Liberman called for a boycott against Haaretz, Israel's sixth-largest Hebrew daily newspaper.

Hezbollah members carry mock rockets next to a poster of the group's leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah [FIle]

Born again

An uncompromising search for truth drives a couple to give up a spacious home and a culture of good manners in the American South.

Mordechai and Avigayle Frankewich

A threat to the foundations of Jewish peoplehood

Leaving issues of religion and state to an ultra-Orthodox monopoly is leading to estrangement between Israel and the Diaspora. New arrangements must be reached.

A man wears a kippa embroidered with US and Israeli flags

Likud MK joins legislative fight against Reform, Conservative Jews

The MK’s bill says that there is a need to define the prayer areas of the Western Wall, the authority to conduct prayer services and to “prevent offending the sensitivities of the worshippers."

Western Wall

EU court allows religious symbol ban in headscarf ruling

The Court of Justice (ECJ) gave a joined judgment in the cases of two women, in France and Belgium, who were dismissed for refusing to remove headscarves.

Woman in hijab in france

Why can't Israel's PM say 'God bless Israel'?

Politics need to be stripped of religion. When that happens, people will be able to enjoy the basic rights every democracy is meant to provide its citizens.

US President Donald Trump.

Podcast: Three Ladies, Three Lattes

Meet Pamela Peled, Tzippi Shaked and Danit Shemesh, the authors behind 'Three Ladies, Three Lattes.'

The authors of 'Three Ladies, Three Lattes.' From Left: Danit Shemesh, Tzippi Sha-ked and Pamela Peled

Bill criminalizing progressive prayer at Kotel ‘hard to stop’

Official calls legislation a "disaster abroad but necessity here."

Western Wall

Spirituality Strengthens the Soul

The Jerusalem Post

50 new state-paid local rabbi posts to be created by Religious Services Ministry

Although the ministry now appears willing to start making such appointments once again it is unclear how it will overcome this legal obstacle.

Followers of ultra-orthodox Jewish rabbi Moses Teitelbaum of the Satmar Hassidim pack the Congregation Yetev Lev D'Satmar in the town of Kirays Joel, New York