Lithuanian Haredi leadership reportedly agrees to Netanyahu's proposal that would see yeshivas keep operating, with restrictions, after defying coronavirus orders to shut schools

Lithuanian Haredi leadership had ordered schools to remain open, in violation of coronavirus regulations

While Hasidic and national religious sectors follow Health Ministry restrictions, Lithuanian ultra-Orthodox leadership orders schools to remain open, violating regulations

As virus spreads, Jewish law requires total adherence to all instructions of health officials, Rabbis Lau and Yosef declare in edicts to the faithful

Chief rabbi urges keeping lips off hands touching mezuzahs; European rabbinical group bans those feeling unwell from synagogue, even to recite the Kaddish prayer for the dead

Among new exhibitions are an interactive video interview tool to talk with a Holocaust survivor and documents from Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann’s life in Argentina

Jewish, Christian, Muslim leaders submit to Pope Francis a joint document denouncing assisted suicide in initiative spearheaded by Israeli ethicist

Yisrael Meir Kin accuses Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Lau of corruption and spreading 'fake news'

After extreme sanction is announced, US-based man agrees to formally end religious marriage after over a decade

After mass protests, attorney slams 'witch hunt,' insists incident 'had nothing to do with skin color' and says his client is now afraid for his life