“For us, being in the army is worse than death,” Roth said. Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jews, or Haredim as they prefer to be ...

Israel's Supreme Court has ruled that ultra-Orthodox Jews can be conscripted ... The Haredim can trace their roots back to 19th-century Eastern Europe: a community of religious scholars that ...

Reuters/Gaza/Jerusalem Published on October 20, 2023 | 09:57 PM Israel levelled a northern Gaza district on Friday and hit an Orthodox Christian church where others had been sheltering as it made ...

Some 62,000 Orthodox ... in Israel are celebrating a quiet Christmas on Sunday as the war in Gaza rages on.While most other Christians celebrate the holiday on December 25, the Orthodox Church ...