Only 30, convert Nichols is a rising star in a party losing Jewish MPs while still reckoning with years of antisemitism accusations under Jeremy Corbyn

Conservative Rabbi Michael Beals decries 'racist' decision not to grant citizenship to Jared Armstrong, who wants to play for the Hapoel Haifa basketball team

Country's top Ashkenazi and Sephardic rabbis tell Matan Kahana to 'wake up,' say Jewish state must be under authority of Chief Rabbinate

Matan Kahana touts 'historic opportunity' to address problem of close to half a million Israeli residents of Jewish ancestry who are not considered Jewish by state

What's common to the diverse misbehaviors of Ram Ben-Barak, David Amsalem, Idan Roll and Rabbi David Lau is that they've lost sight of their public service obligations

UTJ lawmaker says appointment of respected rabbinic judge is 'like putting an idol in the Temple'; religious affairs minister pushes back, saying he won't be bullied

Finance minister tells Lau he must fulfill terms of his job or be ousted; plenum vote on bill pushed off two weeks due to lack of support

David Lau tells PM framework being proposed by religious affairs minister will split the Jewish people

ToI editor David Horovitz and diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman discuss detainees in Istanbul, US firefighters in Israel, and religious affairs

Matan Kahana's reforms would bring ultra-Orthodox men into the workforce earlier, remake kashrut, bolster conversion - all according to halacha. Haredi leaders should be delighted