The Israeli military has enlisted the first batch of about 50 recruits into its new ultra-Orthodox brigade after a controversial decision to end their decades-long exemption from service.

He told the brigade's ultra-Orthodox fighters "we will preserve the ... and battle,” he said. The new brigade takes its name from the Hasmonean Dynasty, which began after the Jews threw off ...

Rabbanit Leah Sarna, the first senior rabbinic leader of her Orthodox synagogue, creates another crack in a persistent glass ...

Countries belonging to the Eastern Orthodox Church did not readily adopt the Gregorian calendar either. It is also quite clear, on a historical level, that Catholic Europe celebrated New Year’s ...

By 2010, women comprised about 17% of the movement’s Rabbinical Assembly membership, and as of 2020 ... two more Orthodox women, an American in Riverdale, New York, and an Israeli in Efrat ...

The deep sense of wholeness I used to have as part of the Orthodox community is missing,” she told the New York Times in 1982 for an article about the growth of Orthodoxy in the United States.

Priests are now planning to open new parishes to accommodate the “tsunami” of young men who have converted since the pandemic. They say that most of the new converts found the Orthodox church ...

When the ball drops in New York City’s Times Square to herald the start of 2025, it’ll actually be late to the party as dozens of countries around the world will already have welcomed the new ...

The first 50 ultra-Orthodox soldiers were drafted for regular service in the Israel Defense Forces’ new Haredi brigade, known as the Hasmonean Brigade, the military said on Sunday. The ...

McFadden, the bestselling author of “The Housemaid” and “Do Not Disturb,” has a gripping new thriller. At eight months pregnant, Tegan is stranded in a blizzard in rural Maine after her ...

They say that most of the new converts found the Orthodox church by watching YouTube videos or listening to podcasts. Matthew Ryan, a former atheist, found Orthodoxy after he saw a comment about good ...

“New Year, New You”: The traditional slogan encapsulates both the promise and the hopelessness of our annual attempt at personal transformation. On the one hand, January 1 feels pregnant with ...