Rabbi Pinchas Lipschutz, editor and publisher of the US Yated Ne’eman has invited me to see first hand the Chareidi community in Me’ah She’arim, and I have accepted that invitation, hopefully in the ...

For residents of Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox Meah Shearim neighborhood, the holiday of Sukkot is a highlight of the entire year. Referred to by the rabbis as “the time of our joy,” music pours through ...

The Cabinet today dealt with rioting last night by ultra-Orthodox zealots in which a mob of residents of Jerusalem’s Meah Shearim quarter broke into a nearby Education Ministry building, smashing ...

While the Israeli cabinet has been grappling with some of the most harrowing decisions it has ever faced — from the deliberations over the release of Gilad Shalit, to some particularly stringent ...

In the neighborhood of Meah She’arim, stronghold of the vehemently anti-Zionist sect of Neturei Karta, Israel’s Independence Day is traditionally kept as the inverse of the country’s national ...

Saturday was an eventless day throughout the country. A number of Orthodox Jews, colorfully dressed in their Sabbath kaftans and fur-caps regained courage, leaving their homes in the quarer of Meah ...

Throngs of mourners filled the streets of Jerusalem on Tuesday to pay their respects to Torah luminary Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel The streets of Meah Shearim, normally bustling with shoppers and yeshiva ...

JERUSALEM (RNS) While no one tracks the number of religious vs. secular Jews who have been injured or killed in attacks, religious Jews are thought to be repeat victims. JERUSALEM (RNS) Sigalit ...