A partnership with popular lecturer Rabbi Shneur Ashkenazi brings immediately relevant messages to Torah Studies, the ...

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MK Uri Maklev slams approach of combining Torah study with military service, saying it is 'the greatest damage' facing the ...

Without Torah, there would be no Jewish people. Without the Jewish people, there is no State of Israel. That is precisely why ...

The haredi-backed Basic Law passed its final Knesset votes after weeks of coalition tensions and warnings that it could encourage draft evasion.

Defying outcry from legal officials, the IDF, reservists and opposition parties, coalition secures final approval of flagship ...

For Rav Kook, it was axiomatic that the Jewish soul and the Torah are a match made in heaven. In his book analyzing the essential nature and value of Torah study, Orot HaTorah, he categorically ...

In the Torah, the Hebrew word for the Five Books of Moses, there is not a single reference to a kippah, the circular piece of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Israel's ultra-Orthodox Jewish sector has been protesting over the attempts to draft young haredi men into the military. (photo ...

In Israel today, the Haredi question is no longer a marginal sociological issue. It sits at the center of our politics, our economy, and our social fabric: mass draft exemptions, low male workforce ...

Along with their work in the Temple, the Torah designated the tribe of Levi, including the Kohanim (priests), to engage in Torah study, education, practical halakhic teaching, and individual guidance.

The challah had been broken and the blessing for Torah study had been chanted when the rabbi posed a question: Which modern-day prophets have been ostracized for sharing a message that no one wanted ...