Religious officials participate in annual ceremony along with members of Netzah Yehuda, a battalion for Haredi troops

Mickey Levy says hostile comment was made by an aide who accidentally used his boss's official account, adds that the culprit has been reprimanded

Hundreds break through police barriers into Bnei Brak cemetery as Haredi leader is interred, but event passes without major unrest; medics treat a few dozen people

Procession for Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, an influential religious leader with hundreds of thousands of followers, raises fears of crush similar to deadly Lag B'Omer disaster

Seeking to distance herself from candidate Wendy Rogers, who was accused of antisemitism, Arizona state senator Kelly Townsend shares photo of fictional dysfunctional Haredi family

Officers use water cannons and cavalry to disperse crowd blocking traffic at entrance to city; video shows officer knocking demonstrator to the ground and kneeling on his head

26% of ultra-Orthodox Israeli men don't know English; 28% describe their English as 'poor,' and fewer are learning English in school than in the past

Report says Treasury officials to present plan that includes ending some subsidies for full-time yeshiva students, giving grants to ultra-Orthodox schools that teach core subjects

Insular community struggling to deal with several high profile cases of prominent people being accused of abuse, with counselors seeing a rise in the number willing to speak out

Responding to petition against Finance Minister Liberman's plan to restructure system, justices say payments can't be stopped in the middle of the school year