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Police escort a woman away from right-wing rioters who disrupted a screening at Ra'anana's Beit Samueli synagogue of the joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day ceremony, April 29, 2025. (X screenshot)
April 30, 2025, 9:20 am
Rioters storm Ra’anana synagogue during screening of Israeli-Palestinian memorial event
4 police officers and 3 participants injured, 3 right-wing activists arrested after attack on Reform Beit Samueli building; MK Gilad Kariv, a, rabbi, decries ‘attempted pogrom’
By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff
Illustrative: A woman walks next to an advertisement for Golan Telecom in Jerusalem, November 5, 2015. (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)
July 23, 2024, 11:25 am
Kosher cellphone bill sparks debate on Haredi consumer freedoms vs communal coercion
New legislation would reinforce phone plans that are under rabbinical censorship, raising questions about internal societal pressures and control
By Canaan Lidor
Supreme Court building, Jerusalem (original image via iStock, composite image by The Times of Israel)
December 13, 2023, 2:45 pm
Non-Orthodox converts to Judaism eligible for free circumcision, High Court rules
Decision ends a 14-year legal struggle for treatment equal to that of males who undergo Orthodox conversion
By Canaan Lidor
Members of the Women of the Wall, Conservative and Reform Movements hold Rosh Hodesh prayers at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Old City, March 4, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 20, 2023, 6:48 pm
Court bans Torah bag searches at Western Wall, in limited win for Women of the Wall
Ruling nonetheless reaffirms that attendants at holy site may enforce rules preventing women from using scripture in ‘unauthorized ways’ once they enter complex
By Canaan Lidor
Ofri Meoded Danon and his mother celebrate his bar mitzvah at the egalitarian plaza of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel in May 2023. (Courtesy of Meoded Danon)
June 23, 2023, 9:56 am
Red tape keeps non-Orthodox worshipers a stone’s throw from the Western Wall
5 years after stone collapse at holy site, authorities have yet to reopen access to Wall at egalitarian section; religious activists argue delay is deliberate
By Canaan Lidor
A view of the egalitarian plaza, often referred to as 'Robinson's Arch,' at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on December 30, 2021. (Amy Spiro/Times of Israel)
February 17, 2023, 12:50 am
Government tells High Court it still plans to improve Western Wall egalitarian plaza
Responding to multiple court petitions, state says it is working to implement long-stalled, six-year-old cabinet decision, angering both liberal and conservative groups
By Judah Ari Gross
From left, Tamar Gottlieb, Yochi Rappeport, Anna Kislanski, Rakefet Ginsberg, and Orly Erez-Likhovski, pose for a photograph in court on December 4, 2022. (Courtesy/Women of the Wall)
December 4, 2022, 1:46 pm
Ultra-Orthodox news website apologizes, will pay fine for blurring faces of women
Behadrei Haredim outlet reaches deal with 5 women after Reform movement’s Israel Religious Action Center sues over coverage of a meeting between Jewish leaders and President Herzog
By Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative: Orthodox Jewish men wear prayer shawls during services on a train, on February 4, 2010. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
June 14, 2022, 11:08 am
Israel Railways to compensate woman asked to leave her seat so men could pray
Religious Action Center wins discrimination lawsuit on behalf of Maya Melitz; train operators to stop asking women to move
By ToI Staff
A picture of a meeting between President Isaac Herzog and Jewish leaders in Jerusalem distributed by the President's Residence in December 2021, with faces of females blurred, as it appeared in Behadrei Haredim according to a lawsuit. (Courtesy: IRAC)
May 19, 2022, 9:39 am
Female Jewish leaders sue Haredi news site for blurring their faces
Lawsuit filed by Israel Religious Action Center claims photo caused plaintiffs ‘harm and humiliation’; website denies wrongdoing: ‘This is our way of life’
By Tobias Siegal
Illustrative: Otzma Yehudit member Benzi Gopstein (with microphone), head of the radical group Lehava, leads a demonstration against the Jerusalem Pride Parade on June 6, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 29, 2021, 10:41 am
Reform movement legal arm calls to classify extreme-right Lehava as terror group
Letter to Israeli officials details ‘evidence of members’ goal to hunt Arabs’; IRAC blames the anti-gay, anti-Arab group for inciting recent wave of local violence
By ToI Staff
Jews from the Ugandan Abayudaya community participating in the Shabbat Project. (Courtesy)
January 28, 2021, 7:07 pm
Conservative Jewish leaders slam Israel’s rejection of Ugandan Jewish immigrants
While the Jewish Agency recognizes the non-Orthodox conversions of the Abayudaya community, the Interior Ministry refuses, driving a bigger wedge between Israeli and Diaspora Jewry
By Shira Hanau
Lehava chairman Benzi Gopstein, right, and his attorney (now MK), Itamar Ben Gvir, left, arrive at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, June 8, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90, File)
June 8, 2020, 9:31 pm
Trial opens for Jewish extremist charged with incitement for anti-Arab rhetoric
Bentzi Gopstein tells media he should be given a prize, not indictments, for his ‘war against assimilation’; attorney Itamar Ben Gvir says his client is an ‘Israeli Dreyfus’
By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
Passengers at Yitzhak Navon train station in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 12, 2020, 6:16 pm
Israel Railways sued for discrimination against women
Rider claims railroad employee demanded she move to a different car so male passengers could pray in a gender-segregated environment
By ToI Staff
The broadcasting studio of the ultra-Orthodox radio station Kol Barama, July 1, 2009. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
June 28, 2019, 2:48 am
Ultra-Orthodox radio station won’t face crippling fines for exclusion of women
Kol Barama breathes sigh of relief as Supreme Court appeal seeking NIS 20 million in compensation pulled; outlet previously ordered to pay NIS 1 million in discrimination suit
By Marissa Newman
The Ben Yehuda 2 pizza shop in Jerusalem. (Sammy Kanter/Facebook)
October 19, 2018, 6:56 am
Gay rabbinical student sues Jerusalem pizzeria that refused to serve him
Ohioan Sammy Kanter seeking NIS 33,500 from Ben Yehuda 2 pizza shop after August incident following pride parade
By Marcy Oster
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