May 23, 2013
2:53 am

The bride, Hana Batya Pener, is entreated to a "mitzvah tantz" at her wedding to Rabbi Shalom Rokach, the grandson of the Belz Rabbi, on Tuesday. The dance is a highlight of the wedding ceremony, in which the bride holds one end of a sash while her father and other important men in the community dance on the other end. (Photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Wedding bells for Belz as heir to Hassidic dynasty ties knot

Leaders from other Ultra-Orthodox sects among 30,000 guests at Jerusalem nuptials

By Times of Israel staff

May 19, 2013
3:13 pm

A battle for the soul of Judaism

The ultra-Orthodox are fighting for control of the Kotel as their power in the wider national arena continues to fade

By Naomi Schacter

May 19, 2013
11:50 am

Haifa Port, 2009. (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Plans and counter-plans

Budget cuts to yeshivas canceled; soldiers might operate seaports in case of strike; and, as always, the Syrian question

By Aaron Kalman

May 19, 2013
12:41 am

Deputy Finance Minister Mickey Levi at the Knesset. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Treasury says ultra-Orthodox to get ‘workforce’ earmarks

Deputy Finance Minister Mickey Levy says money for Haredim to be used to encourage them to enter the job market

By Adiv Sterman and Stuart Winer

May 16, 2013
9:26 pm

Anarchists and ultra-Orthodox men conversing in Jerusalem (photo credit: courtesy of Behadrei Haredim)

Ultra-Orthodox get unexpected support from ‘anarchists’

In Haredi Jerusalem neighborhood, activists distribute flyers attacking Zionism, the State of Israel and the draft law

By Adiv Sterman

May 16, 2013
9:18 pm

(illustrative image: dancing in Simhat Torah celebrations in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood October, 2012 via Shutterstock)

Between a good living and a good life

Haredim have been heading to work without Dov Lipman’s help and may have a thing or two to teach about what really matters

By Avraham Edelstein

May 14, 2013
3:29 am

An ultra-Orthodox school in Jerusalem. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Haredi schools to teach core subjects in exchange for funding

Yesh Atid calls deal with Shas historic; education minister says ultra-Orthodox state school network in offing

By Joshua Davidovich

May 12, 2013
6:34 pm

Women celebrate the new month with prayer at the Western Wall, Friday, May 10, 2013(photo credit: Michal Shmulovich/Times of Israel)

Almost half of Israeli Jews back Women of the Wall

Support for pluralistic prayer group highest among Western-born Jews, says poll released amid rising tensions at the Kotel

By Stuart Winer

May 10, 2013
11:04 pm

Watch: Police safeguard prayers for Women of the Wall

For the first time, security forces hold back ultra-Orthodox demonstrators, not the pluralistic women who gather each month in prayers shawls and tefillin

By Times of Israel staff

May 10, 2013
10:11 pm

A resonant reversal at the Wall, as police protect the pluralists

400 non-Orthodox Jewish women make history at the Western Wall. But for some of them, the sense of victory is tinged by sorrow over the need for an ongoing fight

By Michal Shmulovich

May 10, 2013
6:43 am

Members of Women of the Wall gather at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Friday, May 10. (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich/Times of Israel staff)

Ultra-Orthodox teens clash with Women of the Wall at holy site

Three men arrested, two policemen injured as thousands of Haredis flock to Western Wall in failed bid to keep group from holding prayer session

By Michal Shmulovich and Yoel Goldman

May 9, 2013
11:24 am

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews holding a prayer rally in Jerusalem's Shabbat Square in opposition of the government's plan to start drafting yeshiva students into military and national service, June 25, 2012 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers face jail from 2017

Ministerial panel says financial sanctions not enough; aims to limit exemptions on religious grounds to 1,800 per year

By Aaron Kalman

April 26, 2013
10:56 pm

Women of the Women of the Wall organization wear prayer shawls as they pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, April 11, 2013 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israeli court: Stop detaining women at Western Wall

Judge says there is absolutely no justification for arresting females who choose to wear religious garb at holy site

April 24, 2013
1:56 pm

Outrage after politician calls ultra-Orthodox ‘parasites’

Deputy finance minister immediately apologizes after comment made on live radio; comparison reminiscent of 1942 Germany, Shas MK says

By Gavriel Fiske

April 21, 2013
7:07 pm

My legs

I want to respect my neighbors but I do expect, in turn, to be respected or at least left alone, when I walk down the street

By Shifra Steinmetz-Silber

Topic: ultra-Orthodox Jews