Though the Center for Jewish Life (CJL) offers a variety of services, the Chabad services will target a different audience, Chabad Rabbi Eitan Webb said in response to concerns of Orthodox students ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Worshippers including President Vladimir Putin packed Moscow’s landmark Christ the Savior Cathedral for a nighttime Easter service led by Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox ...

According to IDI, the ultra Orthodox community is growing fast, but gaps in employment, income, and military service persist, particularly among haredi men. The Israel Democracy Institute on Sunday ...

(JTA) — Multiple dimensions of Israel’s ongoing civil strife came to a head on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, as secular activists shut down an Orthodox Yom Kippur service in the center of ...

Protests by ultra-Orthodox Jewish Israelis turned violent on Sunday. Police said protesters threw rocks and attacked the car of an ultra-Orthodox Cabinet minister. Cannons filled with skunk-scented ...

A prayer service marking the third anniversary of the Russia’s invasion of Ukraine takes place Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025, at St. Mary’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Whitehall Township. Arch Bishop Daniel ...

Since the founding of the Israeli state in 1948, “Haredi” (or “ultra-Orthodox”) men have been exempted from military service to study Torah instead. Haredi students and their families would be ...

SPRINGFIELD — In a tribute steeped in faith, memory and community, St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral held a special memorial service on Sunday to honor Michael D. Biakis, a city native, parishioner ...

The Israeli Supreme Court issued a ruling on Tuesday ordering the government to draft ultra-Orthodox Jews into the military. Since Israel’s founding, ultra-Orthodox Jews have been exempt from ...

Ben Christenson was raised Anglican — church every Sunday, a religious school, and Christian camp every summer. But Christenson, 27 of Fairfax, Virginia, always found himself longing for a more ...

On July 9, hundreds of members of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community gathered at Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl military cemetery to accompany one of their own to his final resting place. Two days earlier, ...