The Iranian nuclear issue and Palestinian peace talks may be dominating the news about Israel nowadays, but if discussions within the Jewish state focused on any social challenge this year, it was the ...

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Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its ...

On Monday evening October 23, there were big protests in Jerusalem in which approximately 2,000 Charedi Israelis blocked traffic and stopped local and regional public transportation from functioning ...

The disturbing recent episode involving the harassment of an 8-year-old Orthodox girl in the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh, and the ongoing controversy over separate seating for women on public buses ...

Israel has “an existential problem.” No, it’s not a nuclear Iran, or ISIS at the northern border. It’s charedim (also known as ultra-Orthodox Jews), too few of whom have adequate secular education and ...

Now that all the bluster about the elections in Israel seems to be subsiding a bit, there is one area dear to me that has been under-discussed. What will be the fate of Charedi world now? It is no ...

Regarding “Moving Charedim Into Israeli Workforce” (Editor’s column, Dec. 18): This article is written in a nasty way that only exacerbates division among Jewish groups. Even if you think the charedi ...

LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 08: A billboard thank NHS staff in Stamford Hill on the evening of the Jewish holiday of Passover on April 8, 2020 in London, England. The Jewish community is preparing to ...