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My Rabbi is in Miluim this summer. Where is your rabbi vacationing?
By Hanan Greenwood / Israel Hayom
A., a known figure in the national-religious sector, will be tasked with catering to agents’ spiritual needs.
The Religious Services Minister will appoint a woman rabbinical court advocate.
By Israel Hayom
Conference of European Rabbis president hails move for sending “a clear message of tolerance and pluralism.” Germany last had a chief military rabbi in World War I.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We always have, and always will, prioritize the safety and well-being of our students,” said Joe Wolfson, AMHSI-JNF chairman of the board.
By Campaign Against Antisemitism
Following the attack, the Rabbi left the UK and flew to Israel.
The mysteries of time, space, and dimensions.
Rabbi Moshe Azman wants the March of the Living trips moved out of Poland.
Rabbi Eliyahu pointed out the troubling facts which were the basis for his statement against "Hashgacha Pratit."
How can you turn around your relationship?
What's the secret of attraction?
By Moshe Herman
We're entering a special holiday slalom that mixes new Israeli "state" holidays along with Jewish traditional ones - and with the 50th anniversary of the 6 Day War, it's a powerful and emotional season.
This is THE Show to listen to, when it comes to converting to Judaism.
By Asher Sova
Our problem-solving tools – Gemara and Shulchan Aruch – remain unchanged, but the problems we are solving couldn’t have been imagined in previous generations.
People, communities, need to build relationships with their leaders. And the leaders have to be able to understand and relate to their followers.
Are you feeling disconnected from G-d?
In the case of Jews refused entry to the UK before WWII, the justification given was baseless and false. In the case of Syrians refused entry to the US the justification has a basis and is not false
An unforgettable hour with Rabbi Kahana about his amazing life!
By dvora
The Rav begins his project with an in-depth examination of the first four mishnayot of Pirkei Avot, raising topics such as the sources of ethics, power and persuasion, elitism and democracy, educational philosophy, freedom and coercion, among others.
Jewish destiny, the “rear-view mirror” of history.
By JNi.Media
'The last time I was here, we stood together and looked at the burnt walls and the terrible graffiti. Today, I visit here again, and see the renewal of this historic, special, and holy place.'
Obligation is a strong word. There are many medical procedures that are life-saving in nature that are not obligatory if there’s even a small risk involved.
My family was very much involved with Eretz Yisrael. During the 1940s when the Underground was trying to throw out the British, my father was one of the heads of the Revisionists.
Who you are, and what it means to be a 'soul'?
By JNi.Media
The first item in Metzger's original indictment (before the plea bargain) accused him of selling conversion certificates in exchange for bribes.
By JNi.Media
Two years and a few months later, some of the good rabbi's blog post's recommendations have been adopted as policy by the Netanyahu government.
With tens of millions of people around the world watching, Rabi Hier called attention to the ancient and enduring connection between the Jewish people and land of Israel.
By Paul Gherkin
Orthodox Jews only make up about 10% of the 5.3 million American Jews and are the fastest growing denomination by far and overwhelmingly support the Republican Party.
Perhaps the single greatest teacher of Rabbinical CBT was Rabbi Akiva. The Talmud (Berachot 60B) teaches that Rabbi Akiva was always in the habit of saying " Everything that God does is for the good."
Kfar Chabad now has a street named after the Rebbe.
What do Jewish sources say about reincarnation?
How to free yourself from toxic anger.
By JNi.Media
At the same time, there is a creeping acceptance of intermarriages within the Conservative movement.
Rabbi Ira (Yisroel) Hill realized that many of these organizations were not reaching their full potential. He decided to do something about it.
"If a single yeshiva student is implicated in terrorist activities, the yeshiva must be closed" said Mr. Yoffie. Does he also propose closing mosques whose members commit terrorism? Somehow I doubt it
Rabbi Steinsaltz has been moved out of the ICU.
What happens to us after we die? What is the concept of "the world to come?"
Coping With Tragedy By Turning Pain Into Power
The Left, having been emasculated at the ballot box, now uses the Court to achieve its aims and it is attempting to do so again with the appointment of Rabbi Karim to the post of IDF Chief Rabbi
Rav Goren, a general and the Chief Rabbi of the Israeli army, recalls the excitement of and hurdles to being the first Jew to open the gates of the Cave of the Patriarchs in more than a thousand years
By JNi.Media
The leader of the Shuvu Banim (Return boys) movement, Rabbi Eliezer Berland, confessed to indecent assault and was sentenced to 18 months in prison, part of which he has already served since his arrest.
In honor of Rabbi Kahane’s 26th yartzheit, let the truth be told.
He was absolutely convinced that, religiously, they were much better off in Eastern Europe and Russia than in America.
Parshas Bereishis is not only the first but arguably the most difficult parsha in the entire Torah. Let's begin...
By Chabad.org
Two men and two women from the Carpathian mountain region attacked Rabbi Mendel Deitsch in Zhitomir.
Rabbi Mendel Deitsch, a longtime Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in France and more recently in Israel, was brutally attacked at Zhitomir’s central train station early Friday morning, where he was discovered and transported to a local hospital. The Jewish Community of Zhitomir was alerted to the attack hours after Deitsch was admitted to the hospital; his condition is considered […]
Early in his life Reb Shraga Feivel decided he would devote himself to strengthening Orthodoxy in the face of the onslaughts of those who would undermine Torah Judaism.
A candid discussion about terrorism, antisemitism and the world around us on the 15th anniversary of 9/11.
Working as a principal, with talented administrators and a dedicated faculty, helped fill the void and ease the loneliness of being a widower.
By David Bedein
Aug. 2005, Rabbi She’ar-Yashuv Cohen traveled to Jerusalem to make a last minute appeal to Arik Sharon to reconsider his plan to retreat from Gush Katif, History has proven him, not Sharon, correct
Frankfort-on-the-Main was the city of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, inspired and inspiring leader in Israel, man of God if ever there was one.
The demolition operation was conducted in line with the Israeli government’s recently reinvigorated terrorism deterrence policy.
How can we comprehend evil done in the name of G-d?
Tisha B'Av, the ninth of Av, is the saddest day in the Jewish calendar.
By JNi.Media
According to Damari's account, the first rescuer arrived seconds after the attack and started prying the doors open with a jack, releasing and bringing out the children.
The rabbi is known as the liaison between the Jewish community and law enforcement.
The Hamas terror cell was made up of family members, friends and a Palestinian Authority policeman.
By JNi.Media
Rabbi Mark's daughter, Orit, an active member of Im Tirtzu’s Youth Division, participated in the conference.
An inspiring writer, illuminating teacher, and revered pulpit rabbi. So many accomplishments in a life well lived.
Remembering Rabbi Maurice Lamm (1930-2016)
On the way to Jerusalem cemetery, the family stopped at the site on Route 60 where the terror attack took place.
By Marc Gronich
I was not interested at all in going more than a two- or three-hour drive from New York City because my family and my wife’s family both live in New York. The
Hear R’ Asher Weiss tell in his own words the experience of his father in Auschwitz and how he fought to keep the light of Torah alive.
By Steven Plaut
In short, Michael Lerner is neither Orthodox nor a Rabbi. We DO know that he is an anti-Semite though, one who claims that Jews themselves are to blame for anti-Semitism!
After Rabbi Yehuda Glick was shot by a would-be assassin, Amir Ohana stepped in to act as his personal bodyguard.
By JNi.Media
"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."
By JNi.Media
Each time MK Neguise, or foreign governments, or righteous lobbyists ask for another quota of Ethiopian immigrants who are Christian, not Jewish, they promise this is the last time.
My father went to a school in a neighborhood with no Jews and told my teacher, “My son is a sick boy who must relax two days a week – Saturday and Sunday.”
Rabbi Bryn’s life was tragically cut short at age 40 by Marfan syndrome, a condition that affects the body's connective tissue.
The fair closed and spring turned into summer and the peddler never came to call for his sack. The rebbetzin soon forgot about it.
By JNi.Media
An internationally recognized infectious disease specialist, Glatt is also an ordained Rabbi.
The rabbi from Tiberias almost fell into the sea trying to board the ship and settled for shouting from his boat, "Say Shema Yisrael."
Rabbi Illowy did his utmost to increase the religious observance of his congregants.
By JNi.Media
A whopping 86% of Conservative Rabbi don’t want to admit intermarried couples in their congregations.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The wave of terror also has made self-defense courses and pepper spray the new fad.
By Moshe Herman
Why did God create the world, and what does the word "Bereshit" tell us about creation? And does the Torah teach us about the nature of violence in general and blood in the streets of Jerusalem in particular? As we leave the holiday season behind, we enter a new phase in the Torah and a new phase in our lives - let's get it started right! Join Yishai and Rabbi Mike Feuer for a very special Spiritual Cafe filled with new beginnings.
A community in Samaria told the Supreme Court it is working through the offices of Peres and Abbes to find a solution to prevent the planned desecration.
Hareidim claimed victory by blocking the appointment of three "liberal religious Zionists" to the country's 12 regional rabbinical courts. There now are 22 judges, 7 more than in previous years, but only eight of them are from the national religious community. The other 14 are divided equally between the Ashkenazi and Sephardi Haredim Absent from […]
"Yesha" and Binyamin Regional Council leaders said the attack "is not the path of Jews in Judea and Samaria."
Jackie Mason now is at least the second Jew backing Trump, but in 2011 he called him a "professional liar" and a "sick man."
It is questionable if anti-Semitism really is not on the rise in the United States. It really is the same as it was 100 years ago, but more overt instead of covert.
Police Thursday morning arrested a rabbi from Safed (Tzfat) whom a woman said raped her after giving her spiritual guidance several years ago. A second woman filed a complaint Wednesday night. The allegations were presented to rabbis in Tzfat last month, and rabbinical leaders, including Safed's Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, asked the alleged rapist to […]
Chief Sephardi Rabbi: "'God has not made me a woman,' not like someone from Efrat who comes up with all kinds of new ideas, makes news and and wages wars."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Orthodox Union, B'nai Brith and the Houston Federation are pitching in.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai rejects what he sees as the "Israel-is-to-blame" narrative of President Obama's speech at the Adas Israel synagogue in Washington DC. Then, Yishai is joined in-studio by Orthodox Union senior managing director Rabbi Steven Weil and director of leadership development Rabbi Ari Rockoff to discuss the future of American Jewry. They discuss their latest initiative: meeting with 18-year-olds spending a gap year in Israel, to encourage them to involve their counterparts in the US, who have grown distant from their Judaism.
The Chief Rabbinate will invite Rabbi Riskin for a hearing on whether to extend his term, ostensibly because of his age but possibly because of his views on conversion.
The Ravens' Ray Lewis screamed that violence is never the answer." Unfortunately, he is wrong.
Former chief Rome Rabbi Elio Toaff died on Sunday the age of 99, two weeks before what was supposed to be his 100th birthday. He served as chief rabbi of the city for 51 years until 2002 after having served as the chief rabbi of Venice. Rabbi Toaf once prayed with Pope John Paul II, […]
The terrorist was behind the attack that killed 166 people, including a Chabad center rabbi and his wife.
Now will there be advice that Jews should not anger anti-Semites and not walk to synagogue?
There is no confirmation of the report that a French Jewish girl has joined ISIS.
Is Woodstock still leading the world to destruction?
First reports are that it wasn’t a “hate crime” in the anti-Semitic sense, but what cold-blooded murder is not fueled by hate?
By JTA
Israeli government money was transferred for the first time to the Reform Movement in Israel to pay the salaries of four community Reform rabbis. The transfer of the more than $86,000 on Wednesday comes 18 months after Israel’s Supreme Court approved an arrangement to enable non-Orthodox spiritual leaders who lead congregations to receive state salaries […]
Queen Elizabeth will grant Israeli Haredi Rabbi Yitzchak Shapira one of the Commonwealth’s highest civilian honors with an appointment as Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, the British Embassy announced Tuesday. Rabbi Shapira is the son of former Haredi Knesset Member Rabbi Avraham Yosef Shapira. The Embassy said he will be […]
By JTA
Rabbi Sergio Bergman, wearing a colorful yarmulke, was sworn in to Argentina’s National Parliament Wednesday on a Tanach when he swore the oath of office before “God, the motherland and the sacred scriptures of the Bible, the Tanach.” Bergman, the first rabbi to take office as a national legislator, was one of Argentina’s 127 newly […]
Bracha Kapach, wife of a scholarly rabbi from Yemen and more widely known as the “Chicken Lady,” died Tuesday morning in Jerusalem at the age of 90. She earned her nickname because of her individual charity effort to make sure that poor Jews would have chicken and other foods for the Shabbat and holidays. The charity […]
By JTA
A Ukrainian billionaire living in London is being sued by his rabbi over a joint property venture. Rabbi Yonah Pruss claims that he and Gennadiy Bogolyubov, a philanthropist who is involved in the Chabad movement, entered into a deal to find, purchase and manage investment properties in Britain along with a surveyor, Colin Gershinson, according […]
By Kosher Today
The departure of the head of the Kosher Law Enforcement Division of the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets has created a vacuum in which many consumers have charged that there are many incidents of misrepresentations of kosher foods. KosherToday has learned that the Department is looking for a replacement for Rabbi Luzer […]
By JTA
Rabbi Sergio Bergman won a seat in the Argentina National Congress and will be the first rabbi to serve as a national lawmaker in the country. He will represent Buenos Aires City in the Lower House of the National Congress. Bergman, a Buenos Aires City lawmaker from the center-right PRO party, garnered 34.5 percent of […]
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