April 26, 2016
4:03 pm

Turkish lawmakers and ministers at Turkey's parliament in Ankara (photo credit: AP)

Turkey’s parliament speaker calls for Islamic constitution

Move adds to concerns over creeping Islamization, ‘eroding secular values’ under Erdogan government

By AFP

April 14, 2016
6:08 am

In this Sunday, May 11, 2014 file photo, a Saudi woman seen through a heart-shaped statue walks along an inlet of the Red Sea in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (AP/Hasan Jamali)

Saudi religious police ordered to show ‘gentle’ side

Monarchy looks to curtail powers of vice patrols, telling them to stop chasing and arresting people

By AP

October 20, 2015
3:17 pm

Actors Anne Gottlieb and Jeremiah Kissel starred in an October 2015 production of Arthur Miller’s ‘Broken Glass,’ produced by Boston’s New Repertory Theatre. The production was staged in honor of the 100th anniversary of Miller’s birth on October 17, 1915. (Andrew Brilliant/NRT)

For Arthur Miller’s 100th: To Jew or not to Jew?

As theaters around the world commemorate the playwright’s 100th with performances of Miller classics, a look at the scribe’s conflicted views on Jews, Judaism and anti-Semitism

By Matt Lebovic

June 23, 2015
9:05 pm

Israel sharpshooters in 2009. (Nati Shohat Abir Sultan /Flash90)

Pro shooter fires off lawsuit over Shabbat event

Israeli Shooting Federation says it can’t reschedule championship to accommodate Orthodox finalist Avishai Brett

By Times of Israel staff

June 18, 2015
3:00 pm

A Chinese Muslim man offers prayers on the first day of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, at a mosque in Beijing on June 18, 2015. (AFP/Greg Baker)

China restricts Muslim fasting during Ramadan

Authorities cite terror threat in bid to limit religious practices of the holy month in Xinjiang region

By AFP

October 31, 2014
4:26 pm

Bette Midler in the 1993 film 'Hocus Pocus,' a comedic twist on the Salem witch trials of 1692 (photo courtesy: Walt Disney Pictures)

More than ‘Hocus Pocus’ to Salem’s Jewish past

Biblical history and Mosaic Law permeated the lives — and deaths — of the Massachusetts Bay community which would not ‘suffer a witch to live’

By Matt Lebovic

June 6, 2013
5:25 pm

A bird's-eye view of Jerusalem's Beit Yisrael neighborhood (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox ‘modesty patrol’ clashes with police

Haredi men attack women for ‘dressing immodestly,’ then turn on law enforcement officers called to the scene

By Times of Israel staff

December 11, 2012
10:40 pm

An Office Depot branch (photo credit: CC-BY Lizsummers/Wikimedia commons)

Office Depot’s Israeli branches to close on Shabbat

US offices approve move by new ultra-Orthodox owners

September 23, 2012
2:33 am

Israelis light candles in the shape of a clock during a protest against the government decision to return to winter clock more than a month ahead of Europe and the US in Tel Aviv, Saturday, September 22, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Dan Balilty)

In Israel, time change unleashes culture clash

Many believe the early end to daylight savings time, meant to make it easier to fast on Yom Kippur, unnecessarily disrupts life

By Josef Federman

September 9, 2012
2:13 pm

Bike rental controversy reawakens issues of religion and government in Israel

It is time to put an end to religious coercion in Israel, and to restore a Judaism where everyone is free to exercise their most basic human and Jewish right – choice

By Dov Lipman

Topic: religious coercion