Israeli scientific advancements in the use of stem cells to treat a variety of serious and debilitating illnesses may now be credited with advancing the Torah learning of a generation of students at ...

The victims had taken a sightseeing flight during a visit to Jewish holy places. (JTA) — Three Jerusalem yeshiva students and their pilot died when their small plane crashed into a house in western ...

The question has come to the fore as the government races to meet a Supreme Court-ordered deadline to revamp the nation’s draft law. In its current form, secular males must perform three years of ...

A haredi Orthodox rabbi who encouraged assassination of Israeli politicians in a speech to yeshiva students has retracted his remarks. In a recorded speech, Rabbi Nissan Kaplan of Jerusalem’s ...

Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel, dean of the world-famous Mirrer Yeshiva, died here suddenly today at the age of 87. Rabbi Finkel, who headed the Yeshiva for 60 years from the time he was still in Poland, ...

Three Jerusalem yeshiva students and their pilot died when their small plane crashed into a house in western Ukraine on Wednesday, according to reports in Ukrainian and Haredi media. Media reports ...

JERUSALEM (AP) – Deep in the heart of Mea Shearim, a Jerusalem bastion of hardline ultra-Orthodox Jews, hundreds of bearded young men in black suits have their noses burrowed into books, immersed in ...