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Illustrative: The building of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel in Jerualem. (Flash90)
March 29, 2018, 2:20 pm
This Passover: Freedom to and freedom from
Israeli Jews are free to do many things, but they are bound by an overreaching government when it comes to religion
By Seth Farber
A Saudi woman tours a car showroom for women in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on January 11, 2018. (AFP/Amer Hilabi)
February 10, 2018, 6:05 am
‘Defanged’ Saudi religious police bring relief, foreboding
For decades the 'mutawa' wielded unbridled powers as arbiters of morality, but recently the group's influence has been gradually diminishing
By Anuj Chopra
January 11, 2018, 2:08 pm
The ripples of a stone in Beit Shemesh
A Haredi response to extremism: Judaism is soft and gentle and kind, let's join hands and begin to talk
By Avraham Edelstein
Leader of the Shas party Interior Minister Aryeh Deri leads a party faction meeting at the Knesset, January 01, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 11, 2018, 12:57 pm
Minister says he won’t enforce law to shut mini-markets on Shabbat
Aryeh Deri now claims change in legislation he supported, threatened to resign over, wasn't his idea or even necessary, and can't be put into practice
By Stuart Winer and TOI staff
Two young girls eat ice cream as they leave a mini market in Jerusalem, August 2, 2010. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
December 3, 2017, 2:18 pm
Cabinet green-lights bill shuttering mini-markets on Shabbat
Legislation that could see convenience stores closed on Saturdays in most of the country faces opposition within the coalition
By TOI staff
July 5, 2017, 2:06 pm
To prevent a schism in British Orthodoxy
Inquisitions have no place in Judaism -- those who have impugned Rabbi Joseph Dweck's religiosity must back down
By Nathan Lopes Cardozo
June 8, 2017, 3:36 pm
Women’s right to be alone in the mikveh
The Supreme Court ruled that women may immerse as they choose, so why must they sign that they have done so?
By Seth Farber
British DJ DAX J, being sought by Tunisian authorities on suspicion of ‘offending public morality‘ for mixing the Muslim call to prayer into a nightclub music set. (YouTube screenshot)
April 7, 2017, 6:41 pm
DJ who used Muslim call to prayer in remix sentenced to year in jail
British DJ Dax convicted by Tunisian court in absentia for ‘offending public morality' by putting muezzin call in his mix
By TOI staff
British DJ DAX J, being sought by Tunisian authorities on suspicion of ‘offending public morality‘ for mixing the Muslim call to prayer into a nightclub music set. (YouTube screenshot)
April 5, 2017, 12:12 am
DJ to be charged in Tunisia for Muslim prayer remix
British DJ faces six months jail if convicted of ‘offending public morality‘ for use of Muslim call to prayer in nightclub set
By AFP
November 20, 2016, 1:04 pm
Jews in church
What to do when your monastery's artwork lauds forced conversions of Jews and Christians as the new beloved of God
By Erik Ross
A bronze statue of the Satanic icon Baphomet, currently residing in a shed outside The Satanic Temple in Salem, Massachusetts (Courtesy)
October 26, 2016, 4:36 pm
In haunted Salem, a Jewish church founder preaches the art of ‘Satanic’ social change
At a former funeral home in a town inextricably linked to witchcraft, secular Jew Malcolm Jarry opens a new heaquarters for his Satanic Temple, a controversial movement with up to 50,000 members worldwide
By Matt Lebovic
Turkish lawmakers and ministers at Turkey's parliament in Ankara (photo credit: AP)
April 26, 2016, 4:03 pm
Turkey’s parliament speaker calls for Islamic constitution
Move adds to concerns over creeping Islamization, 'eroding secular values' under Erdogan government
By AFP
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)
April 14, 2016, 6:08 am
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
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)
October 20, 2015, 3:17 pm
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
Israel sharpshooters in 2009. (Nati Shohat Abir Sultan /Flash90)
June 23, 2015, 9:05 pm
Pro shooter fires off lawsuit over Shabbat event
Israeli Shooting Federation says it can't reschedule championship to accommodate Orthodox finalist Avishai Brett
By TOI staff
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