19+ hour, 7+ min ago   (749+ words) When the news cycle turns genocide into background noise, it is difficult to shake off the feeling that you are complicit in the violence. Atrocities become bullet points in fact-finding reports. Stories of people get lost in the rubble of…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (234+ words) In Israel, the head of the People of Israel party, Ofer Winter, spoke out against the demand for a full exemption from military conscription for all yeshiva students. As The Jerusalem Post reports, he responded to a statement by Yitzhak…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (23+ words) Police said activists tried to block traffic and damage the construction sites, and officers began dispersing the crowd after declaring the demonstration illegal....

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (31+ words) A survey conducted on 800 Israeli men and women chosen to represent Israel's Jewish population found that on every religion-and-state issue tested, the majority was opposed to official policy...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (307+ words) As the Jerusalem Post reports, Israel’s High Court of Justice unanimously struck down a temporary amendment intended to halt arrests, investigations and other enforcement measures against students of ultra-Orthodox yeshivas who failed to report for military service. The provision did…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (69+ words) Haaretz Ultra-Orthodox demonstrations in Jerusalem follow weeks of clashes, including a protest earlier Saturday targeting a coffee stand outside the Jerusalem café at the center of a dispute over businesses operating on Shabbat For the third consecutive week, Ultra-Orthodox protesters…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (23+ words) Ynetnews Dozens of ultra-Orthodox protesters, mostly children, block buses at Jerusalem entrance...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (568+ words) Israel’s High Court of Justice in Jerusalem struck down a controversial law on Thursday that protected Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) yeshiva students who refuse to enlist in the military from arrest. Deputy Supreme Court President Noam Sohlberg stressed that the decision did…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (114+ words) A panel of nine justices ruled that the considerable flaws in the legislative process rendered the bill unconstitutional. Eight of the justices also noted that the law 'severely infringes on the core of the constitutional right to equality' Israel's High…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (378+ words) Ynetnews Just hours before the start of the school year, police decided to provide security at a secular school in Jerusalem’s Kiryat Yovel neighborhood after dozens of ultra-Orthodox protesters entered the school grounds Monday night to protest what they…...