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Knesset passes contentious haredi-backed bill to enshrine Torah study in Israel's Basic Law
The haredi-backed Basic Law passed its final Knesset votes after weeks of coalition tensions and warnings that it could encourage draft evasion.
Israel's hysterical Torah study bill will backfire on the ultra-Orthodox - opinion
Laundering human capital: The reckless amnesty bills and their debasement of the Torah - opinion
Israel cannot afford Netanyahu’s capitulation to haredi demands - editorial
Equality NGO Forum Dvorah slams hesder yeshivot boycott over women's integration in tank units
Forum Dvorah, an Israeli women's rights NGO, criticized hesder yeshivot for boycotting the IDF Armored Corps over a pilot program involving women tank units.
Editor's Notes: High Court ruling on women in tanks deepens religious divide in IDF - comment
Women who made history in tanks on Oct. 7 fought in all-female crews. Both camps in the Armored Corps dispute should be claiming that morning as a victory. Instead, both pretend it never happened.
Some 25 hesder yeshivot boycott IDF's tank corps over new pilot to incorporate women
The Yeshivot Heseder leaders believe that mingling between men and women in such a small, secluded space would compromise modesty.
WATCH: 'All of Israel is ours': Smotrich calls to annex West Bank in Jerusalem Day speech
"The time has come for us to finally erase the lines that distinguish between Areas A, B, and C, the entire Land of Israel is ours," Smotrich said at the Religious Zionist Merkaz HaRav Yeshiva.
Satmar HQ condemns Mamdani for vetoing no protest buffer zones around educational facilities
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani vetoes bill aimed at protecting educational institutions from protests, citing concerns over free speech and constitutional rights.
'May God kill, destroy the judges,' Yitzhak Yosef denounces ruling restricting Western Wall prayers
Former Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef criticizes the High Court’s decision restricting Passover prayers at the Western Wall, calling the judges "heretics" and "Shabbat desecrators."
Staying put: Realizing a modern Exodus amid times of challenge - opinion
In this sense, remaining in the land at this time is a particularly profound expression of that ancient story. It says: We are already part of the journey, and we want to be nowhere other than here.'
After October 7, this haredi woman refuses to stand apart from Israeli society
Born into the heart of haredi Jerusalem, Sari Kroizer has built a religious and Israeli identity that refuses to stand apart.
Entering Pardes: Discovering Jewish identity and tradition through role-playing games
At the recent Roll for Destiny exhibition at the Schechter Gallery in Tel Aviv, an overlap between geekdom and religiosity was taken into outright experimental art.
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