Yair Ettinger

Eli Yishai says Ovadia Yosef opposes any form of a settlement freeze extension; Ariel Attias, however, says Shas would not stand in the way of two-month extension.

11 torah scrolls were damaged in a fire that broke out in the synagogue of the Vyzhnytsia hassidim on the first day of Sukkot.

'Unprecedented and unpleasant' problems are halakhic and cosmetic, not medical; panel may recommend second procedure for some babies

Protesters march from central J'lem to ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea She'arim a day after High Court of Justice ruled that gender separation barriers were unacceptable.

In previous years, men and women alike flocked to Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox neighborhood during the Sukkot holiday. This year, extremists forced a change

An Israeli Hasid was stabbed to death and his brother was beaten late Saturday night in Uman, a Breslov pilgrimage destination.

Gender relations, Mea She'arim style: Non-Haredi women plan a march through the neighborhood Friday morning to protest discrimination against women.

Court: Building a sukkah constitutes 'reasonable use' appropriate to time and place, and in no way negates similar rights of other residents, and does not infringe on the respondents' property rights.

Yosef's young followers brought two birthday cakes carrying the portrait of their revered rabbi. The rabbi rewarded them with a Torah lesson and his blessings.

Petitioners claim Justice Minister Neeman has been sidestepping his obligation to provide equal opportunities for women seeking the job.

Rabbi Yechiel Stern is considered the supreme authority in his Jerusalem neighborhood and beyond on everything related to the Four Species of Sukkot

Officers will be on special alert in Jerusalem to prevent riots, acts of terror, or friction between the various communities in the city.

Perhaps more than anyone else, Yosef has influenced and shaped the state in his position as rabbi and spiritual leader of the largest Haredi political party.

Shas spiritual seeks conciliation after asking God to deliver a plague on Abbas, the Palestinians and 'all the evil people' in the world.

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Israel last week launched its annual information campaign against the ritual slaughter of chickens.

Why shouldn't Israeli Haredim learn English and mathematics in their yeshivas, serve in the army, work for a living, and have picnics on Independence Day? In Beit Shemesh, ultra-Orthodox Anglos and native-born liberal Haredim have decided to open their society to the real world.

Pre-Rosh Hashanah wave of pilgrims to the grave of Rabbi Nachman in Uman peaked as around 9,000 boarded 50 flights from Ben-Gurion Airport.

State-sponsored conversions in Israel suffered another major blow when a representative of State Attorney's Office informed the High Court of Justice that the conversion of thousands who became Jews under an IDF-sponsored program may be invalid.

Rabbi Haim Druckman hits back at accusations that the army's system is improperly supervised, following debate on petition over validity of the conversions.

The newspaper of the Lithuanian stream of ultra-Orthodoxy in Israel disassociated itself from the nationalism of the settlement movement in an editorial over the weekend, against the backdrop of the start of direct negotiations with the Palestinians and the attacks on settlers last week in the West Bank.