By Ravid Oren, Ynet News, September 2 2010

At home they observe mitzvoth, but sometimes they sneak out to clubs and chows down on seafood. Ynetnews presents story of haredim who hide new secular life because price of exposure is too high

Ynet News, August 30 2010

Following deadly shooting at gay youth center, other violent acts against gays, municipality launches new school program focusing on sexual identity. Shas councilman calls content 'debauchery'

By Salman Masalha, Haaretz, September 1 2010

All the evil words, both in Hebrew and in Arabic, are nourished by the hatred from that same sewer, that same teat called monotheism.

By Nehemiah Shtrasler, Haaretz, August 29 2010

Only here can a minority community of observant Jews bend the will of the majority and turn the height of summer into winter, at least officially.

By Elissa Strauss, the sisterhood:  a JDForward Blog, August 23 2010

Women of the Wall recently asked women around the world to send in photographs of themselves reading from or holding a Torah.

By Eli Senyor, Ynet News, August 19 2010

Police continue investigation into controversial book; arrest Rabbi Yosef Elitzur from Itzhar on suspicion of incitement to racism, violence

By Yoram Kaniuk, Ynet News, August 22 2010

Op-ed: Minister Yishai’s war against foreign children contradicts Jewish realities, past

By Zvi Bar'el, Haaretz, 22 August 2010

Fundamentalist rabbis have approved murder, attacks on Arabs, illegal land seizures and racist segregation, and have ignored the murder of a prime minister.

By Nir Hasson, Haaretz, August 23 2010

CEO of company developing light rail project supports providing 'kosher' cars for city's ultra-Orthodox population.

By Dana Weiler-Polak, Haaretz, August 25 2010

Her Israeli partner passed away before all of the tedious paperwork could be settled, but ministry bureaucrats are unmoved by her pleas.

By Dan Izenberg, Jerusalem Post, August 17 2010

The state requests High Court reject petition by rights groups to extend deadline from 21 to 90 days for children and families living in Israel illegally to prove right to stay.

By Dana Weiler-Polak, Haaretz, August 14 2010

Interior minister and PM's wife meet a day after Sara sends personal letter to Yishai urging him to let 400 migrant worker's children stay in Israel.

Hillary Brenhouse TIME Magazine August 12, 2010  Last month former Jerusalem city councilor Anat Hoffman, a brightly colored prayer shawl draped about her neck like a scarf, took a stand. Backed by a band of dancing, chanting, clapping women and the mound of stones that is Judaism's most revered shrine, the Western Wall, or Kotel, she cradled a heavy Torah scroll. In moments, a YouTube video testifies, the Israeli police were there, pleading with her to abandon the holy book. When she refused, they made attempts to pry it from her arms.

By Raphael Ahren, Haaretz, August 2 2010

Immigrants applying for marriage licenses are being asked by local rabbinical courts to produce ritual wedding contracts from their parents, grandparents and great-grandparents or other often unattainable documents to prove their Jewishness, Anglo File has learned.

By Jonah Mandel, Jerusalem Post, August 2 2010

Women’s and social advocacy groups filed a petition to the High Court of Justice on Wednesday against Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman, demanding that he clarify why a woman wouldn’t be able to vie for the position of director of the rabbinical courts.

By Dan Izenberg, Jerusalem Post, July 28 2010

The High Court of Justice on Tuesday heard the conflicting requests of the petitioners and the state in the petition protesting the gender-separated bus lines operated by the Egged and Dan bus cooperatives and said it would hand down its ruling soon.

By Jonah Mandel, Jerusalem Post, July 26 2010

The agreement for an all-around moratorium on the legal actions that could change the status-quo of conversions in Israel seems to be accepted only by the liberal Jewish groups, while Shas and United Torah Judaism, who supported MK David Rotem's Conversion Bill in its recent Law Committee vote, were not part of such a deal. Rotem too said that he was not part of any such understandings.

 By Jonah Mandel, Gil Shefler, and Greer Fay Cashman, Jerusalem Post,  July 14th 2010

A day after Anat Hoffman, chairwoman of the Women of the Wall prayer group, was detained for holding a Torah scroll at the Kotel, the Knesset Lobby for Civil Egalitarianism and Pluralism held a preplanned discussion Tuesday on the freedom of all Jewish streams to pray at the Western Wall.

Click here to see a video of Anat Hoffman's arrest, July 12th 2010 outside of the Kotel

By Jonah Mandel, Jerusalem Post, July 12th 2010

Israel Beiteinu MK David Rotem will be bringing a slightly amended version of his conversion bill for discussion in the Knesset Law Committee on Monday morning – much to the surprise and consternation of liberal Jewish groups in Israel and abroad.

By Jonathan Lis and Associated Press, Haaretz, July 12th 2010

The Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee on Monday approved in a preliminary reading the new draft for a bill on conversion reform that has sparked outrage among Reform and Conservative Jewish communities in Israel and abroad.

By Daniel Clinton, Jerusalem Post, July 12th 2010

The chairperson of the Women of the Wall prayer group Anat Hoffman was released from police custody on Monday afternoon, after being taken in for questioning for allegedly defying the High Court ruling outlawing women from reading from the Torah  at the Western Wall.

By Kobi Nahshoni, YNet News, July 5th 2010

Israel Prize winning author Amos Oz called upon the entire Israeli public to take part in the struggle between what he calls "the forces promoting a settler-haredi ghetto full of heartlessness" and those who espouse an open and pluralistic Israel "in the spirit of the prophets' vision."

By Ronen Medzini, YNet News, June 24th 2010

Police denied on Thursday a request by the Jerusalem Open House for Pride and Tolerance to allow this year's Gay Pride Parade slated to conclude outside the Knesset building.

By Linda Gradstein, AOL News, June 17th, 2010

Dozens of Israeli parents were sent to jail today after defying the Israeli Supreme Court's order to integrate a religious girls' school in a West Bank Jewish settlement. Jerusalem was a sea of black today as some 100,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews demonstrated in support of the parents.

By Jonah Mandel, The Jerusalem Post, June 15th, 2010

The High Court of Justice on Monday ruled that a clause in the national budget enabling kollel students to receive minimum income-guarantee payments was neither legal nor constitutional, as no other student groups were eligible for such funds.

By Nir Hasson, Haaretz, June 15th, 2010

The World Zionist Organization Congress opens today in Jerusalem, with first-time participant Shas on hand - a party whose critics say seeks to undermine Zionism's foundations.

By Dana Weiler-Polak, Haaretz, June 8th, 2010

An interministerial committee on humanitarian issues will soon begin marathon sessions to plow through its backlog of residency applications from people who lack legal status in Israel.

By Peggy Cidor, The Jerusalem Post, May 28th, 2010

The observant Jewish Left is a rather new phenomenon in Israel – whether Reform, Conservative or modern Orthodox. The creation of Meimad in 1988 was the first time that modern Orthodox Israelis showed an interest in promoting peace and human rights on a political level.

By Jonah Mandel, The Jerusalem Post, May 14th, 2010

Seventy-nine percent of Israeli Jews think all haredi schools should be forced to teach the core curriculum subjects, according to a poll conducted this week by the Smith Institute on behalf of Hiddush – For Religious Freedom and Equality in Israel.

By Raphael Ahren, Haaretz, May 14th, 2010

Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon yesterday pledged not to proceed with a controversial conversion bill before consulting with Reform and Conservative leaders in the U.S. He said that in early June he will travel to New York, where over six days he will meet with the heads of the Reform and Conservative movements, as well as with senior Jewish federation officials.

By Dan Izenberg, The Jerusalem Post, May 14th, 2010

Two new and separate petitions challenging the refusal of the haredi educational system to teach core curriculum subjects essential for the modern workforce are currently afoot in the High Court of Justice.

By JTA Staff, JTA, May 13th, 2010

A Conservative Jewish woman was attacked in Beersheba reportedly for having the imprints of tefillin lines visible on her arms.

By Michele Chabin, The New York Jewish Week, May 12th, 2010

A September 2009 New York Times travel article (“West Jerusalem Shows its Hip Secular Side”) praised the many “secular” attractions the city has to offer, from trendy new shops and restaurants to cutting-edge architecture.

By Nir Hasson, Haaretz, April 23rd, 2010

The Jerusalem District Court yesterday invalidated the Jerusalem municipality's decision to increase funding for Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) schools.

By Ronen Medzini, YNet News, April 19th, 2010

An administrative court determined on Monday that the Jerusalem Municipality favors local ultra-Orthodox institutions.

Judge Noam Solberg granted a petition filed by the Israel Religious Action Center (IRAC) against the City's decision to increase the budget of recognized unofficial haredi educational institutions, claiming that it goes against the principle of equality.

By Dan Izenberg, The Jerusalem Post, March 23rd, 2010

The Chief Rabbinate has announced that it will support a more moderate version of a bill submitted to the Knesset to extend the powers of the state rabbinical courts than the one being pushed by the haredi parties.

By YNet News Staff, YNet News, March 17th, 2010

A delegation of leaders representing Diaspora Jewry met on Monday with Member of Knesset David Rotem, the initiator of a controversial new conversion law.

By Judy Siegel, The Jerusalem Post, March 21st, 2010

State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss will look into complaints he received last week regarding Deputy Health Minister Ya’acov Litzman’s initiative – approved formally by the cabinet on Sunday – to relocate Barzilai Medical Center’s planned reinforced emergency room to a more distant site because the original site contains ancient graves reportedly belonging to pagans or Christians.

By Haviv Rettig Gur, The Jerusalem Post, March 14th, 2010

Top American Jewish leaders are continuing to express growing concern over a conversion bill currently before the Knesset Law Committee.

By Haviv Rettig Gur, The Jerusalem Post, March 10th, 2010

Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky on Tuesday joined the chorus of concern and criticism over an Israel Beiteinu conversion bill currently before the Knesset Law Committee.

By Yair Ettinger and Mazal Mualem, Haaretz, March 10th, 2010

The efforts to end the coalition crisis over proposed conversion regulation reforms continued yesterday, as attorney Jacob Weinroth introduced an initial document containing amendments to the proposed bill.

By Haviv Rettig Gur, The Jerusalem Post, March 9th, 2010

A major American Jewish organization has criticized the Knesset for pushing ahead with key conversion legislation without consulting with Diaspora Jewish communities.

By Dan Izenberg, The Jerusalem Post, March 9th, 2010

The Chief Rabbinate bill (Amendment – Powers in Matters of Conversion) that threatens the solidarity of the coalition is actually two bills wrapped into one, and each has its own political foes who, taken together, add up to an overwhelming majority of the Knesset.

By Rebecca Anna Stoil, The Jerusalem Post, March 9th, 2010

By a simple head count, Law Committee chairman David Rotem (Israel Beiteinu) had enough votes in committee to pass his Conversion Law through to its first reading on the Knesset floor Monday, but Rotem chose instead to retain a controversial clause of the bill and thus could not find a single supporter among committee members.

By Kobi Nahshoni, YNet News, March 3rd, 2010

Dozens of young people protesting the separation between men and women on public transportation in Jerusalem toured a number of cities Tuesday night where they hung signs in protest of the "mehadrin lines" that stipulate such a separation.

By Amanda Pazornik, JWeekly, February 25th, 2010

When Anat Hoffman uses the phrase “separate but equal,” it’s not in reference to legal doctrine that justified systems of racial segregation in the South during the 1950s.  

By Dan Izenberg, The Jerusalem Post, February 18th, 2010

The High Court of Justice on Thursday instructed Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud) to explain why he did not accept the recommendations of a committee of experts to examine the issue of separate seating for men and women in public buses.

By Adir Glick, The Jerusalem Post, February 19th, 2010

Haredi airline passengers are being advised to hang a new type of mehitza – a halachic barrier to separate the sexes – around the top of their airplane seats, to shield their eyes from immodest neighbors and in-flight movies.

By Ron Friedman, The Jerusalem Post, February 12th, 2010

An updated list of gender-segregated buses operated by Egged and obtained by The Jerusalem Post on Thursday reveals that on five intercity routes passengers have no choice but to use “mehadrin buses,” and that on more than 25 other routes, females who don’t want to board via the rear door have to switch buses two or three times and often pay substantially more to reach their destination.

By Anat Hoffman, The Jerusalem Post, February 8th, 2010

Dear Naomi,  While I know you’re not one to be intimidated easily, or frightened into silence by a personal attack paid for by dubious organizations and publicized in newspapers and on-line, I was personally insulted when I saw the crude caricature of you

By Ron Friedman, The Jerusalem Post, February 5th, 2010

The High Court of Justice on Thursday criticized Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz’s decision to allow gender-segregated buses to continue operating, saying his suggestion to hang signs asking non-religious passengers to respect the haredi community’s sensitivities while explaining that the separation isn’t mandatory, was unsatisfactory.

By Ron Friedman, The Jerusalem Post, February 2, 2010

Human rights organizations accused the government of lying to the public about the threat of infiltrators from Africa in an effort to prevent Sudanese and Eritrean asylum seekers from obtaining sanctuary in Israel.

By Abe Selig, The Jerusalem Post, February 2nd, 2010

A soon-to-be-released report by the Zionist student group Im Tirtzu, which accuses the New Israel Fund of direct responsibility for the UN’s Goldstone Report on the IDF’s Gaza offensive last winter, is “just another in a series of attempts to quash freedom of speech in the human rights and civil rights community in Israel,” the NIF’s CEO Daniel Sokatch told The Jerusalem Post on Monday.

By Ron Friedman, The Jerusalem Post, February 2nd, 2010

Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz is facing criticism following his response to the High Court decision on Sunday regarding segregated bus lines. Katz, in his reply to the court, said that the buses would remain in operation, but that the state would not tolerate the use of threats and violence to enforce the separation.

By Nir Hasson, Haaretz, January 31st, 2010

Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz told the High Court of Justice yesterday that it should permit the continued operation of gender-segregated buses for the ultra-Orthodox. A committee appointed by Katz last year under High Court directives called for an end to the so-called "mehadrin lines."

By Kobi Nahshoni, YNet News, February 1st, 2010

The Transportation Ministry on Sunday submitted its response to the High Court of Justice in the matter of separation between men and women on 'mehadrin'  bus lines.

By Josh Nathan-Kazis, The Forward, January 27th, 2010

An Israeli embassy effort to address the concerns of non-Orthodox Jewish leaders regarding the treatment of some worshippers at Jerusalem’s Western Wall has instead inflamed many of them.