Aryeh Binyamin, the gabbai (administrator) of the Ayelet HaShachar synagogue in Givat Ze’ev, reacted sharply to the words of Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon Monday, after the latter called synagogue supporters “thugs” and “extremists.”
Israel’s chief Sephardi rabbi, Yitzhak Yosef, expressed opposition over the weekend to the broadcast of his sermons on the ultra-Orthodox radio station Kol Ba’rama, thus deepening his personal involvement in a political and commercial dispute between Shas leader Arye Deri and his predecessor and rival Eli Yishai.
It was recently revealed that Israeli special forces carried out a daring operation to rescue the last Jewish family in the Syrian city of Aleppo.
American porn star Joanna Angel told a British newspaper that her Orthodox Jewish parents New Jersey have been accepting of her career choices.
Birthright Israel co-founder Charles Bronfman has called on the Reform movement to displace Chabad as the largest provider of Birthright trips to Israel.
After arousing intense anger and derision by publishing a letter to terrorists, asking them not to target haredi Jews because most of them do not visit the Temple Mount, Mishpaha magazine has published an apology.
El Al has promised to look into an incident on a recent flight in which the in-flight movie was stopped after about 20 minutes and the screens folded back in deference to the feelings of the ultra-Orthodox passengers on board.
The ultra-Orthodox leadership in the United States has declared a sweeping rejection of the Open Orthodoxy movement, announcing it will not recognize rabbis identified with it.
Prominent national-religious leader Rabbi Shlomo Aviner spoke out strongly on Monday against religious women serving in the IDF, saying they are contributing to the destruction of the State of Israel.
A popular rabbi at the head of Tunisian Jewry in Israel suggested to a memorial gathering Sunday that the murders of Eitam and Naama Henkin and other recent violence were a direct result of “sinful behavior,” including gay pride events.