Israel’s parliament has passed a preliminary reading of a bill that would put the country’s ultra-Orthodox chief rabbinate in ...

A bill that would strengthen the Orthodox Chief Rabbinate’s control over the Western Wall, introducing steep penalties for ...

Sometimes a single episode reveals much about the big picture. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision on Sunday to cancel a ministerial committee vote on legislation that would ...

In the debate over Western Wall prayer, the traditional case deserves a hearing.

‘It literally criminalizes non-Orthodox prayer,’ said Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism in the U.S.

High Court of Justice holds hearing on status of religious right at Jerusalem's holy site for first time in years, demands answers on why 2017 directive by PM not yet implemented The post Local and ...

The U.S. State Department closed embassies in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia on Tuesday and is urging Americans to evacuate from 14 ...

Two years ago, Monocle travelled to the Iran-Iraq border to meet Iranian Kurdish fighters training for the day they ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, delivered on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026, as transcribed by The ...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday delivered his first State of the Union of his second term, using the record-breakingly long speech in an attempt to convince increasingly wary Americans that the ...

After more than a year of his chaotic second term, President Donald Trump got a prime time chance to convince Americans the state of the union is strong. CNN annotated Trump’s speech with context and ...

President Trump delivered his State of the Union address on Tuesday, giving him an opportunity to hit the reset button as our new poll found that six in ten people feel the country is worse off than a ...