July 18, 2013
12:48 pm

A chance for reconciliation

Listening closely and hearing Haredi leaders sincerely ask how they can love their fellow Jews

By Yoni Sherizen

July 15, 2013
7:11 pm

An ultra-Orthodox man observes a group of soldiers at the Western Wall in Jerusalem (illustrative photo: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Posters call for killing of ultra-Orthodox soldiers

Religious rights group files complaint with police, but others say the campaign bears the hallmarks of parody

By Ilan Ben Zion

July 15, 2013
5:12 pm

Redefining Reform

Haredi Jews may be deeply dedicated, but their theology is as anathema to normative Judaism as the teachings of Reform Judaism

By Noah Roth

July 15, 2013
3:46 pm

An Orthodox soldier and an ultra-Orthodox Israeli. (photo credit: Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

Before we all burn in hell

A Tisha B’Av call for internal Jewish harmony and a return to the moral foundations of our faith

By David Horovitz

July 13, 2013
12:45 am

Ultra-Orthodox men pray in front of the Jerusalem Police headquarters in 2012 (photo credit: Flash90)

Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews pray outside J’lem police HQ

Men protest the arrest of two of their community members who assaulted officers during Mea Shearim attack on Haredi soldier

By JTA and Times of Israel staff

July 12, 2013
8:35 pm

Illustrative photo of Israeli Border Police officers (photo credit: Flash90)

Two charged in attack on ultra-Orthodox soldier

Prosecutors indict Joseph Braun and Jacob Krischavski for assaulting officers who came to victim’s aid

July 10, 2013
7:11 pm

Graffiti depicting a Palestinian flag in a stronghold of the extremist Neturei Karta faction in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood Mea Shearim (photo credit: Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel)

Day after attack on soldier, ultra-Orthodox neighborhood unabashed

While some decry violence that saw soldier pelted with eggs and oil, many in extremist stronghold unperturbed by incident

By Ilan Ben Zion

July 10, 2013
1:04 pm

Don’t call me Haredi

The recent violent behavior at the Western Wall is a shameful breach of what it means to be a devout Jew

By Levi Margolin

July 3, 2013
9:07 pm

“Keep this area clean!” one poster bellows in blood-red ink, mimicking an oft-repeated slogan of kitchens and bathrooms across Israel. (photo credit: courtesy)

In ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods, anti-IDF posters ‘recall Nazi propaganda’

A slew of fliers, reportedly part of a contest started by a member of an extremist group, liken those who join army to bugs and vermin

By Debra Kamin

July 3, 2013
6:01 am

A wall of 'Pashkvilim,' or posters bearing communal announcements, in the Jerusalem Haredi neighborhood of Mea Shearim (photo credit: Ben Sales/JTA)

Facing possible draft, reduced subsidies, ultra-Orthodox respond with prayer

Despite apocalyptic rhetoric, Israeli Haredi population has kept relatively quiet in the face of drastic reforms

By Ben Sales

June 28, 2013
6:17 pm

An advertisement campaign for Kiddum featuring an image of an alien, Rothschild Blvd, Tel Aviv. The ad copy reads: "And I thought that we were advanced..." (photo credit: Ricky Ben-David/Times of Israel)

Egged bars J’lem ads featuring aliens

Transportation company nixes extra-terrestrial depiction from bus banners for fear of offending ultra-Orthodox passengers

By Times of Israel staff

June 24, 2013
1:01 pm

Which comes first, love or marriage?

On the ultra-Orthodox practice of arranged marriages: Shared values are not enough to sustain a couple through change

By Levi Brackman

June 14, 2013
2:45 pm

Two young women studying at Midreshet Aviv, the only seminary of its kind for religious women in Tel Aviv (courtesy Midreshet Aviv)

A Tel Aviv school for religious women soldiers on

Midreshet Aviv, where 400 Orthodox women in their early 20s study Torah, is the only institution of its kind in Israel’s secular stronghold