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The Newport congregation testified they had to sell the ornaments because their numbers were starting to dwindle and they could no longer afford to pay a rabbi.
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The Bennett solution resolves the conflict in a peaceful way, which is not something the Reform and Conservative movements want.
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In 1976, Sakhnin was the site of the first Land Day marches, in which six Israeli Arabs were killed by Israeli forces during violent protests.
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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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Vegan soldiers are encouraged to file their complaints with the military ombudsman by fax or email, whenever their military assignments clash with their core Vegan beliefs.
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"We have a mission to convert Muslims to Christianity. We have a mission to convert the people of all the non-Christian religions [except] Judaism."
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"I don't think I will ever be the same having seen this astonishing thing."
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Speaking before a cadre of Hezbollah's top command, Mughniyeh then declared that Israel is a friend and a strategic ally opposite the Saudi enemy.
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Rabbis Dov Lior, Yuval Cherlow, and Shlomo Aviner believe that the new invention is vital.
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The problem is that by reducing the number of vaccinated children, the community at large is exposed to a greater risk.
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Saying they were the trustees, not the owners, Judge McConnell chastised Shearith Israel for claiming ownership and removed it as Touro’s trustee.
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The punishment in Lebanon for "crimes against nature" is up to one year in prison.
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“I think it’s a very good thing, and I hope he does a very good job because frankly that would be very, very good.”
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Half the leftists feel ill at ease about expressing their views in Israel, while absolute majority of right-leaning Jews feel very or quite comfortable.
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Understandably, Iran's authorities were not amused.
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"As the world remembers one of the most horrific events in modern history, Christians, Jews and people of conscience must commit to make a stand and say never again."
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"An orthodox Islam that does not respect our constitution or even contradicts it is incompatible with our legal system and culture."
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Traditionally, hundreds of believers meet the fire carrying delegation at Vnukovo airport, to bring the fire to their parishes.
Rabbi Dr. Elad Dukov of Haifa's Technion Institute of Technology was arrested Monday at the Temple Mount.
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"Who 30 years ago in this country would have pretended to be a rabbi, to say nothing of 70 years ago?"
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The family’s attorney is E. Randol Schoenberg, who helped Maria Altmann successfully recover Gustav Klimt's "Woman in Gold," from the Belvedere Museum in Vienna.
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The Temple Mount Sifting Project was initiated in response to the illegal removal of tons of earth from the Temple Mount by the Waqf in 1999.
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France, Spain, Sweden, Russia and Slovenia were among the non-Arab nations who supported the resolution.
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The Beit Hillel document is more interested in the treatment of gays by the individual Orthodox communities than it is with offering innovative solutions to Orthodox gays.
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Special kosher for Passover cell phones may be purchase now at a "subsidized cost" of 99 shekels $26.22.
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"We will become strong if all the people will join the Likud and will be there when we compete, and choose us."
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She noted that several of the current eight justices are from New York City, like herself.
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Rabbi Kanievsky may be the most "Zionist" of the great Haredi rabbis.
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Members of the British Humanist Association, on the other hand, were beside themselves with their biased attack.
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"We proudly call upon all those who may fit the bill to contact the Temple Institute immediately.”
The Shira Hadasha congregation has appointed an Orthodox female rabbi-in-residence for this May.
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The entire text of the Tanakh is offered in both English and Hebrew, along with an audio component so readers can hear the Hebrew text.
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Over the past few weeks, IDF Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot has been systematically curtailing the authority of the Military Rabbinate.
In a lawsuit between a Jewish school and parents, a shul weighs in to give its "pro-Israel" hecksher.
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"Better to give up the Yiddish and let everyone understand the material, rather than maintain the tradition and lose the students' attention."
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“When [the pope] talks about wealth being used to serve people, not as an end in itself, I agree with that.”
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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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The hands-on virtual workspace that will allow scholars around the world to work together simultaneously.
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Naturally, in a country without a constitution guaranteeing freedom of speech, the policeman is king.
By Chabad.org
Providing spiritual sustenance to inmates, regardless of their crimes.
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In 2008, Tymieniecka sold her archive of letters to the Polish National Library, which kept them from public view until the BBC was invited to take a peek.
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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.
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The Protocols is a plagiarized work composed by the Czarist secret police to divert public attention from the empire's economic woes to imagined outside enemies.
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"They kill Christians and persons of different religions. Why are they doing this?"
"They want to expel the Divine Presence and the sanctity of the holiest place of the people of Israel."
Dina Gold's "Stolen Legacy" is the story of one woman's victory against the Nazis, albeit 60 years later.
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Haifa mayor was told by the Lubavitcher Rebbe that the depth of the sea near Haifa "is suitable for precious stones and gems."
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Instead of using Tu Bishvat to teach children to eat fresh, healthy fruits, we stuff their faces with dried fruits, rich in Artificial sugars and preservatives.
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As you may recall, in 1492, just as Columbus was sailing the ocean blue, the Jews of Spain, on the 9th of Av (which fell in August) were expelled.
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Most of the women on the streets wear hijabs, or headscarves, and niqabs, veils that leave visible only the area around the eyes.
Pope Francis is the third-ever Roman Pontiff to visit Rome’s Great Synagogue
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Which is why anyone will tell you that when it comes to interfaith relations you have to keep your sense of humor.
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At these costs, it probably makes sense for Israel to annex the entire Judea and Samaria already, rather than pay for it in installments…
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According to sources in the Hebron community, the Skverer visit is part of a general increase in visits and tourism in the city and the Cave of the Patriarchs.
Facebook did not apologize for the double standard, they expressed no remorse or shame, and they ignored the delicious humor in the Shurat Hadin report.
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The congregation was served at one point by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, who later went on to become Chief Rabbi of the UK.
The Muslim Middle East continues unraveling: Saudis cut relations with Iran, Iranians torch Saudi Embassy
Police threw Yehudah Etzion off the Temple Mount for "praying" because he held out his hands.
The President told Christian leaders that the regional conflict is about hate and not religion.
"PC" Foreign news agencies exhilarated over "moderate' Rouhani but omitted his criticism of the Islamic world for "stopping to look at the Zionist regime as the main aggressor."
The Taub Center noted a link between being religious and being satisfied with aspects of living, but that it does not necessarily apply to non-Jews. Hareidim live longer
Mahmoud Abbas relinquished the stage this year instead of repeating the lie that "Jesus was a Palestinian," but O'Malley has stepped into the breach.
Archaeologists discovered a Byzantine-era marble sculpture of a lamb Thursday morning in excavations at Caesarea port in the Caesarea National Park, Experts suggested that the lamb served as part of the decoration in the 6th-7th century CE church that was discovered adjacent to the ancient port.
Things will not continue to be as they are now, based on the whim of a police officer who decides that Jews shouldn't pray.
A Jewish family comes home to discover their home festooned with holiday lights?!
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School officials in Virginia decided to keep all 10,000 Augusta County students home this past week, following an Islamic school assignment that enraged parents.
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Rabbi David Lau’s cousin, the Jerusalem Ramban Synagogue’s spiritual leader Rabbi Benny Lau criticized the Chief Rabbi’s attack on Bennett.
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Frej's bill calls for including at least one woman among the Qadis-Muslim jurists in Israeli courts that operate under Sharia Law.
Jerusalem officials, who loudly proclaimed they will ease the ear aches of Jerusalem residents suffering from the wails from mosques, have whispered, "Wear earplugs."
Rosen expressed disappointment that the new document fails to acknowledge "the centrality that the Land of Israel plays in the historic and contemporary religious life of the Jewish people."
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"The visit constitutes a recognition of congregations that are dangerous to the future of the Jewish nation.”
Rabbi Chaim Shlomo Leibowitz, rosh yeshiva of Ponovezh in Bnei Brak, is hospitalized at Sheba Medical Center.
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Efrat Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, formerly of New York, said the rabbis "acknowledge the positive theological status of the Christian faith."
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The new bill prohibits businesses to stay open on Shabbat, with exceptions subject to approval by the Minister of the Economy.
A federal court on Wednesday will hear arguments that the conditions prevent him from working and force him to violate Jewish law.
The 2,700-year-old seal of King Hezekiah the "closest thing to the king," says archaeologist.
An anonymous group has sent threatening letters to Belgian mosques, warning Muslims "will be slaughtered like pigs and crucified as our Lord converts their souls.”
Observant Jews cringe every year that Chanukah and Christmas overlap, leading to sacrilegious combinations of customs, but the kosher industry is losing out when the two holidays are totally separate, such as this year Chanukah beings next Sunday night, December 6, and ends eight days later, almost two weeks before the Christians holiday. Industry experts […]
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Rabbi Yosef turned to the public asking they not take part in shooting snuff videos or stills depicting victims of attacks.
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Perceptions of Islam have turned more negative over the past few years
Pope Francis will pay a visit to the Great Synagogue in the afternoon of Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016.
New information about California campus stabber raises questions about motive and religious connection.
Her husband is Jewish and she converted before they were married in June, while she was pregnant.
Israel sent the Palestinian Authority a key to the door at the tomb, under PA control. The key was sent back along with the door.
Less than two-thirds of Americans are "absolutely certain" that God exists. Millennials point to a godless future.
Hundreds of people have barricaded themselves in the Givat Ze'ev synagogue. Police tell court they cannot stop violence if wrecking ball starts to work.
One of the Arab land owners lied, but it is unclear which one. Now the synagogue is threatened with destruction.
Suburban Philly shul holds Tanakh-a-thon to show support, and to help usher in peace, for Israel.
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Religious public schools have introduced a Temple education program. The Left are terrified...
The windows of the Temple Mount activist's car were smashed on "Rock-Throwing Lane," also known as Highway 60.
The Prime Minister tried to ease tensions by banning all MKs from the holy site, but it apparently applies only to Jews.
Opposition MK calls her a "messianic" whose "dream" could engulf the Middle East in flames.
By Rachel Levy
A Gaza preacher warns that Jews will be blown up into "body parts" by Arab terrorists.
So far, none of Netanyahu's decisions has led to the departure of the Bayit Yehudi party or Ariel's T'kumah faction from the government.
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Arabs burned the site that the Palestinian Authority is committed by the Oslo Accords to guard and to allow access by Jews.
Protests from various American Jewish organizations have led to the removal of Hamas incitement from Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Instagram. Simon Wiesenthal Center's Rabbis Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper urged the public to report hate sites on social media platforms which are fueling the current spate of attacks in Israel. The rabbis also denounced: Unfair […]
Shoshana Selavan, chairperson of the Old City's Jewish Quarter community, launches a new column on Jewish Life in the Old City.
Muslims accuse Jews of trying to take over the Temple Mount, but statistics prove it is a lie.
There is one problem with the Palestinian Authority version: The church was under renovations and was without electricity.
The first rains of the winter season are expected on Tuesday, one day after Jews around the world begin adding to daily prayers that God "brings the wind and rain." The change is made during the prayers on Shemini Azereth, the same day that Simchat Torah is celebrated in Israel. In the Diaspora, the two […]