Within less than a year, number of ultra-Orthodox men joining military service has dropped by half. Groups promoting equal share of burden blame recently enacted draft law.

As many as 200,000 Jewish manuscripts, some more than 1,000 years old, comprise the most important Jewish treasure of the century. Prof. Stefan Reif of the University of Cambridge, who exposed Cairo Genizah and its discoveries to the world, tells Ynet about the revolution it created in the perception of Judaism.

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi - aka Reb Zalman - used contemporary religious and political scholarship to re-examine Judaism after the Holocaust, reinvigorating Judaism's prophetic and mystical traditions.