The Abayudaya, who have been practicing Judaism for a century, were officially converted to Judaism by the Conservative movement, one of the major denominations of Judaism, only in recent years. Under Israel’s Law of Return, anyone who is married to a Jew, has Jewish..…

Israel is the only country in the world with Judaism as its official state religion.11 And no country names Hinduism as its official state religion – though India has a powerful Hindu political party, and Nepal came close to enshrining Hinduism in 2015, when the rejection of a..…

In Judaism, daily prayer is more incumbent upon men than women. Perhaps for this reason, Jewish men across different subgroups in Israel generally are more likely than Jewish women to say they pray daily. . ..…

Share of Jews who are Orthodox is twice as large in Israel as in the U.S. . ... To explore the overlap (or lack thereof) between American Jewish denominations and Israeli Jewish identity, the survey asked Jews in Israel about common streams within Judaism around the world. ..…

The largest organized Jewish denominations America Reform and Conservative Judaism together have about five times more strictly Orthodox community. But Reform and Conservative movements have Israel, according to Pew Research Center's new survey of religion Israel.. ..…

The more influence Orthodox wield, the more they can affect aspects of life here, from the opening of stores on Jewish Sabbath to permitting the more liberal sects of Judaism to perform marriages and conversions -- all of. Deri, member of Israel's parliament who held his first political..…

Using a Hebrew word that literally translates as “assimilation,” but is commonly used as a euphemism for miscegenation, she told Israel Hayom paper: “Young [Jewish]  men and women from all over the world will arrive and form relationships with local young men and women, in order to prevent assimilation..…