Roth is a part of Neturei Karta, a Haredi sect that takes an anti-Zionist stance — meaning the group doesn’t believe in the concept of a Jewish state of Israel. Haredim (the plural of Haredi ...

(JTA) — Four more alleged members of Lev Tahor, a fringe haredi Orthodox sect, were indicted in New York for conspiring to kidnap two children from their mother and return them to their sect.

Over the years, the ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, community has ballooned, and with it the number of exemptions. The new ruling could break up the right-wing coalition government and send the divided ...

If we truly want a whole and united Israel, we’ll need everyone, haredi and secular alike, swimming together in the same waters. Yes, it’s risky. Yes, it’s scary. But it’s also the only ...

(JTA) — The former mayor of a small town in western Guatemala was sentenced to a year in prison for expelling the Lev Tahor sect of haredi Orthodox Jews. Antonio Adolfo Perez y Perez of San Juan ...

Following reports that haredi parties will offer ultimatum to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, haredi party leader MK Moshe Gafni clarifies: 'Goal of our opponents is to harm Torah ...

The former Sephardic chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef recently issued a religious prohibition against serving in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), even if the alternative is complete idleness on the part ...

The government has to encourage a fast and vast shift within haredi society, showing that military service and keeping the faith are not contradictions. DESPITE THE IDF’s calculation that it ...

MK Yitzhak Pindrus, of the Ashkenazic-haredi United Torah Judaism (UTJ) party, on Tuesday evening expressed deep concern at the security situation in the country. "We are in a situation that is ...

The first 50 ultra-Orthodox soldiers were drafted for regular service in the Israel Defense Forces’ new Haredi brigade, known as the Hasmonean Brigade, the military said on Sunday. The ...