Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky’s funeral expected to be the largest in Israel’s history

Widely respected across all streams of Orthodox Judaism, Rabbi Kanievsky strove to adapt religious rulings to life in a reborn Jewish state

I was brought up to think that “believers,” be they Jewish or Christian, were more credible. But then reality caught up to me

Widespread belief and hope that the “government of change” would quickly collapse is now fading

Nothing symbolizes the rift between the young and old generations of Orthodox Judaism as much as smartphone adoption

Without this fateful compromise between secular and religious Jews, the State of Israel would never have been born

“You are a heretic!” shouts rabbi, in sign of major turnaround in Orthodox Jewish views on the vaccine

Images of 9 female ministers in new government distorted; “There is no connection between the photo and Judaism”

“Whoever joins this ungodly coalition has no inheritance in the Kingdom of Heaven,” declare the rabbis

Israel’s most powerful rabbi sees one chance, slim though it may be, of keeping Bibi on top and the secularists at bay