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Women Take Chief Rabbinate Exams After Four-Hour Delay

The confrontation tests whether state law can compel the Rabbinate to provide gender-equal public services.

Sephardic Rabbis Bar Friday Haircuts Before Rosh Chodesh Iyar as Ashkenazic Texts Permit

Hot-Mic Remark at Israel’s Top Court Intensifies Fight Over Haredi Draft and Yeshiva Funding

High Court Allows Tel Aviv Protest of 600 as Police Enforce Wartime Caps

Stranded Chabad Students Return to U.S. After Jordan Ordeal

Knesset Advances Bill Expanding Chief Rabbinate’s Power at Western Wall With Up to 7-Year Penalties

Teruma Essay Explains God’s ‘Dwelling’ and Why the Mishkan Was Built by Freewill Gifts

IDF Rebuts Abuse Claims in Haredi Draft Case, Tightens Prison Procedures

Conservative Judaism Apologizes for Discouraging Intermarriage, Seeks Halachic Clarifications

Rabbi Yitzchak Abadi, Influential Lakewood Posek, Dies

Chief Rabbi David Yosef Secures Get, Frees 12-Year Agunah in Argentina

Leaked Audio of Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef Targeting Rabbi Granot Intensifies Rift Over Haredi Draft

Tel Aviv Orders 130 Synagogues on City Land to Sign Equality Contracts or Face Eviction

Halachic Rulings Guide Erev Shabbos Chazon Observance in Lakewood and Crown Heights

Orthodox Woman Wins Jewish Divorce After Six-Month 'Sex Strike'

Israeli Minister Ben-Gvir's Call for Jewish Prayer at Al-Aqsa Sparks Controversy

New Study Links Tattoos to Increased Lymphoma Risk