יום ראשון, י״ז אלול תשפ״וSunday, August 30, 2026
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The Orthodox community in London has been troubled by a city plan to replace the old water meters with digital units which would cause the desecration of Shabbat whenever one turns on a simple faucet.
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A DNA testing done in 2003 and 2004 of several hundred men of this group showed no evidence of Middle Eastern ancestry.
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"in the introduction, I wrote explicitly that my opinion is the same as the opinion of all the sages of Israel who forbade entering the Temple Mount."
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Jewish law forbids a Cohen to marry a divorced woman or a convert.
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"These works are carried out in the open and cause severe harm to the Jewish character of the State and severely hurt the feelings of millions of religious and traditional citizens in the State of Israel."
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The Sheva Brachot meal could not be held as planned on Shabbat morning because the existence of a bride and a groom was in doubt.
Three generations of the Günzburg family amassed one of the largest private collections of Hebrew books and manuscripts in Europe.
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"The fact that the judges' decision was based on their way of life expresses more than anything else that this is not a matter for trial, but a matter of their worldview."
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Rare and unpublished works represent the collective memory and cultural history of Eastern European and Russian Jews.
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Senator Cruz's resolution proposes that the Senate condemns any past, present, or future efforts at UNESCO to delegitimize Israel through attempts to rewrite and deny the history of Jerusalem.
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A Spokesman for the Temple Organization Headquarters said there is no more appropriate time than the jubilee year for the liberation of the Temple Mount to renew the Temple service in its proper place, on the Temple Mount.
Rabbi Eliyahu pointed out the troubling facts which were the basis for his statement against "Hashgacha Pratit."
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Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu accused a private kashrut organization of ignoring the sale of meat slaughtered in an Arab village to Jerusalem restaurants under their supervision.
This year, volunteers will erect and dismantle some 250 Sukkot around the country.
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The OU is planning an ad campaign condemning the mayor's failure to meet the nutritional needs of city children.
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It’s an emotionally grinding drill that was all too familiar to Arele and David Weingarten, when their mother, Miriam succumbed to the disease after prolonged cancer treatment.
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This year, instead of seeing your children as a distraction from the path to spiritual preparation for Yom Tov, look to them to guide you towards a year of growth.
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"I had not moved away even one step, but someone pulled at my sleeve and asked me to join the minyan. I put on a hat and joined them for the Mincha prayer. I had arrived."
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The Smith Institute survey proves for the Nth time that the polls yield results based on how you write the questions, or, in this case, how you cut your random sample of respondents.
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Instead of accepting a free omelet, the offended Jewish woman is suing Denny's for breach of contract and negligent representation, and is asking for monetary damages for emotional and physical distress from having eaten bacon.
"It would have been great if this issue had been resolved amicably between the sides rather than by the court."
"If everyone would ask himself, ‘What does God want from me?’ that would bring us together.”
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The state of mind of a husband who signed the Tzohar prenuptial agreement may be affected by the financial consequences to the point where his get may not be given in a purely voluntary manner.
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Senior Jewish Agency officials are saying Sharansky is livid over the government's decision to cancel the Kotel plan.
Israel's Cabinet Secretary call on those exploiting the government's Western Wall decision to be precise with the facts.
"When the only contact people have with the Orthodox Jewish world is negative and aggressive, it reflects badly on all of us," a hareidi-religious businesswoman said.
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The deadline for government's response to the high court's order is next Sunday.
"Sometimes you have to hit a wall, feel the rift, in order to build a new bridge."
By D.S. Levi
If the Palestinian Authority is ignoring the Oslo Accords, why is Israel still moving forward with goodwill gestures to Ramallah?
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The Jewish population of Djerba consisted mainly of kohanim (priests), and some claim that they are the only bona fide kohanim we have today.
Families always face the dilemma of planning fun and appropriate activities during intermediate days of Passover.
A Jewish father teaches his daughter about the Torah commandment to burn all remaining bits of bread, etc. before the start of Passover.
Each village priest would recite ancient prayers, such as “Miriam’s Song,” echoing the Biblical account of the Exodus and its aftermath.
"We are committed to doing everything in our power to strengthen the Israeli presence in Judea and Samaria," said Rabbi Ben Dahan.
After news of the inglorious disinvitation spread, UJA Fed CEO Eric Goldstein offered Chesler an abject apology.
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The survey found that Americans express warm feelings toward Jews, with half of US adults rating Jews at 67 degrees or higher on the 0-to-100 scale.
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The Singer family from Jerusalem made the unexpected discovery.
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It turns out that the notion that the re-building of the Holy Temple is the sole responsibility of the Jewish people is the bedrock on which the Temple Institute was established.
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A new path running among two-thousand year old ritual baths that were used by pilgrims visiting the Temple Mount is to be inaugurated at the Ophel site in the Walls Around Jerusalem National Park.
NYC Council member Chaim Deutsch sent a letter to President Obama asking for last-minute clemency for Sholom Rubashkin before he leaves office.
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Donald Trump is about to become the very first US president who has halachically Jewish grandchildren (the Clintons' son-in-law is Jewish, too, but that's just not good enough for Jewish law).
Defense Minister Liberman warns French Jews in particular that if they want to remain Jewish, now is the time to leave.
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He did not mention that, had the Maccabees redeemed the Holy Temple today, they would surely have been condemned by the UN Security Council, with the US abstaining, because said Holy Temple stood in 'Occupied East Jerusalem.'
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At the same time, there is a creeping acceptance of intermarriages within the Conservative movement.
People formed a human chain in Tel Aviv from the US Embassy to the Russian Embassy to call for an end to slaughter in Syria.
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Say what you will, the man has great writers and – crucial – can deliver a line.
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The coin bears on one side a vine leaf and the statement 'Freedom of Zion.' On the opposite side it bears a standing cup and the statement 'Second year of the great rebellion' – the year 67 CE.
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There are 250,000 Jews in Germany, but few Germans know a Jew personally, according to Rent-a Jew.
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According to the chief rabbis, the plan is to create a system whereby the conversions done by rabbis who meet the chief rabbinate criteria would be approved.
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In the Karlin-Stoliner Rebbe's opinion, a draconian, sweeping prohibition on electronic communications creates a situation where many break the law in secret and are exposed to dangerous content.
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'For the first time, we can state with certainty the name of the Roman prefect of Judea during the critical period leading up to the Bar Kochva revolt.'
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If students on the tour encounter foreign journalists, European MPs, or anti-Israel propaganda tours led by radical Left NGOs, they will be permitted to educate them, politely, about the hypocrisy of the delegitimization campaign against Israel.
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According to Chabad, the way to "bring the messiah" is by spreading Hasidic teaching, so that once every land has in it Jews capable of Hasidic meditation and action, redemption must come next.
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On Wednesday morning, a large group of non-Orthodox Jews marched carrying Torah scrolls to protest restrictions on non-Orthodox prayer at the Western Wall.
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Bidders are required to agree to place the object on public exhibition, as per a stipulation by the Israel Antiquities Authority, which designated the artifact a "National Treasure" of Israel.
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The celebration attracted more than a hundred guests, and was an opportunity for Arab dignitaries from nearby Bethlehem and Hebron to mingle with senior IDF and Israel Police officials
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Trump's view on third-trimester abortion conflicts with mainstream Jewish halakha.
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"Most of the people who write about him don't [know him]. I do. So that gives me an ability to shrug off the things that I read about him that are wrong."
UNESCO has adopted the controversial resolution advanced by the Palestinian Authority obliterating the historic link between Judaism and Jerusalem's holy sites.
Tzohar 'Praying Together' attendees all receive the same prayer book to make it easier to follow along.
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Much of his work consisted of de-constructing the prevailing approach viewing Rabbinic Judaism as a single religious movement within which the various Rabbinic texts were produced.
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The guidelines are intended to prevent the spread of disease, as well as minimize animal suffering.
One of the three scientists who won the 2016 Nobel Prize in physics is Jewish.
"Shimon's story is ... the story of a people who, over so many centuries in the wilderness, never gave up on that basic human longing to return home."
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The new group encourages its constituencies "to pursue guidance from its own rabbinic authorities and to continue the spirit of mutual respect and dignity that Jewish practice demands and engenders."
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The exhibition uses the golem figure to examine topics like creativity, creation, power, and redemption.
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Deri's staff has also been instructed to craft an atomic solution, to be used only if the coalition is certain to collapse.
The Global School Twinning Network was awarded the Jerusalem Unity Prize for its work in promoting unity between worldwide Jewish communities and Israeli society.
The UK-based Jewish relief organization has helped thousands of refugees in Greece and Turkey, including thousands of children, over the past year.
Israel's prime minister and education minister agree on the need to instill comprehensive Zionist values in the nation's school curriculum.
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The fact that the first two of these organizations is completely Orthodox, while the third varies from one campus to another has irked many, in Israel and abroad.
Hundreds accompanied US-born IDF lone soldier Shlomo Rindenow, z'l on his final journey to rest in Netzer Hazani.
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Many, if not all these "controversial" responses by Rabbi Krim can be easily explained within the context in which they were provided.
An Iranian silver medalist avoided the awards rather than be photographed with the Israeli bronze medalist.
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Orthodox authorities are concerned not only about the proper execution of the halakhic dipping, but also about the push to permit unmarried women to dip, which the rabbis view as an invitation to lechery.
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Last week, a Knesset committee debated a bill proposed by two ultra-Orthodox coalition partners determining that use of public mikvahs will be conducted strictly according to halakha.
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"I very quickly abandoned the ambition to achieve only rabbinic expertise, and moved on to the more important initiative of promoting you as creative scholars, with integrity, sensitivity and courage."
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MK Bezalel Smotrich (Habayit Hayehudi) said it was "refreshing to see a conservative approach on the part of the Supreme Court."
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Each year, the printed collection of signatures, bound together in a book, is presented to a different MK.
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"We encourage you to show your support by coming to shul this Shabbat for services and for the Shabbaton programming, and we welcome your feedback, questions, and notes of support."
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The signatories at the bottom of a letter titled "An important Message to the Community" include Rabbis David and Reuven Feinstein, the sons and spiritual heirs of the late Rabbi Moshe Feinstein.
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Rabbis Dov Lior, Yuval Cherlow, and Shlomo Aviner believe that the new invention is vital.
Goldie Michelson, 113, is the oldest American and oldest Jew in the world.
Rabbi Dr. Elad Dukov of Haifa's Technion Institute of Technology was arrested Monday at the Temple Mount.
Both US Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry will speak Monday for J Street.
A group of parents, former teachers and yeshiva alumni demand to know the progress of an investigation into NYC yeshivas.
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Rabbi Kanievsky may be the most "Zionist" of the great Haredi rabbis.
JewishPress.com wishes the parents and the newest male member of the Jewish People a hearty mazel tov.
Questions about Israel? Something doesn't sound right? Don't Google it, JVL it.
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"We proudly call upon all those who may fit the bill to contact the Temple Institute immediately.”
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Have a joyous Purim, and if you live in Ramot, have two Purims!
B'nei Akiva is helping to prepare the remaining Jews in Ethiopia to come home to Israel over the next five years
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UTJ MK Israel Eichler turned their lemons into a kind of lemonade saying he wouldn't give the Reform the satisfaction by leaving government.
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"Right away take down his license plate number and call the police. It's a mitzvah to tell."
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One of the challenges of the comparative analysis of the scroll has been the tendency of later scribes to “correct“ the work of their predecessors.
Arab terrorists have again burned sacred items belonging to the Jews of Karmei Tzur in Judea.
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The new plaza will be outside the control of the Kotel rabbi, and be governed by a new public committee.
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