Rabbi Yaakov Glasman Vice-president Janice Iloni-Furstenberg, Rabbi Yaakov Glasman and president Anton Block Shule president Anton Block said he welcomed the opportunity for Rabbi and Rebbetzin Glasman to further consolidate their relationship with the Shule community, moving into an exciting future. He said: “We are delighted to begin this next chapter with Rabbi Glasman as […]
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In wake of Meron disaster, prominent rabbi says ‘women should be more modest’
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Convinced he’s dead, a young man asks a rabbi to recite mourner’s prayer for him
The film “The Forbidden Wish” begins with a young man entering an American synagogue the day before Yom Kippur. He encounters the rabbi, who is rehearsing his Kol Nidre sermon for the eve of the Day of Atonement. The young man asks the rabbi to recite the Kaddish, the Jewish mourner’s prayer. The rabbi assumes […]
Israel’s Chief Rabbi Ruling That Ethiopian Jews Are ‘Full-Fledged Jews’ Proves No Jews Are Real Israelites
When Israel announced this week that it intended to deport almost 100 “Black Israelites” who had emigrated to Israel from Chicago in the 1970s, it raised a persistent problem in Israel — how “Jews of color” are treated, especially the so-called “Beta Israel” Jews from Ethiopia who are still openly discriminated against: While racial tensions […]
A rabbi was suspended by the Reform movement, his synagogue now knows why
New York’s Central Synagogue is investigating sex abuse allegations against its former senior rabbi, Sheldon Zimmerman, and asking why a top Reform rabbinical body appeared to cover up the nature of his behavior when it suspended him two decades ago. In 2000, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, or CCAR, suspended Zimmerman following what it […]
Rabbi in Israel is Accused of Being Undercover Christian
A man in Jerusalem who has worked for years as a rabbi and raised his family in an ultra-Orthodox community has been accused of faking his religion to mask his true identity as a Christian missionary from New Jersey. Beyneynu, an organisation that monitors missionary activity in Israel, said the man wore traditional […]
Chief Rabbi Lau: Halimi case ‘an abominable injustice,’ calls for retrial
Chief Rabbi David Lau has condemned the recent decision by the French Court of Cassation absolving the murderer of Sarah Halimi of criminal responsibility for his actions, and called for him to be retried.Writing in a letter to the Halimi family on Tuesday, Lau said that he was “outraged” by the decision and cited a […]
How a U.S.-born rabbi became the nemesis of radical West Bank settlers
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After fans chant antisemitic slogans, Dutch chief rabbi to hold town hall
Following antisemitic slogans chanted by fans of the Arnhem-based Vitesse football club ahead of a match against Amsterdam’s Ajax football club, Dutch religious officials are set to meet for a town hall to discuss how to move forward.The crowd chanted “Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas,” before the match against the Ajax.Dutch Chief Rabbi and […]
Putin’s rabbi Berel Lazar perpetuates perestroika deception
Putin’s rabbi Berel Lazar and former Soviet dictator Mikhail Gorbachev at a Jewish museum in Moscow in 2012. By Lechaim.ruDate UnknownTranslated from the Russian The former President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev met with the Chief Rabbi of Russia Berl Lazar at the International Public Fund for Socio-Economic and Political Research “Gorbachev Fund”. Rabbi Berl […]
Rabbi saves Torah from burning inferno
A campus rabbi at the University of Cape Town ran into a burning building to save a Torah scroll from being engulfed by the flames, according to Chabad.org. Rabbi Nissen Goldman went into save the Torah as well as other objects after the school’s Jewish student center caught fire from sweeping wildfire, which has destroyed […]
The Rabbi’s & American Presidents
‘Thank you Rabbis,’ Trump tweets after support letter from 13 …https://www.timesofisrael.com › thank-you-rabbis-trum…Oct 26, 2020 — Illustrative: A delegation of rabbis from the Lubavitch–Chabad movement visit President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on March 27, 2018. Shemtov said he anticipates a warm relationship with the incoming White House. He recalls Biden quoting Schneerson, off the cuff, and the president-elect once […]
Britain’s Chief Rabbi Pays Tribute to Prince Philip: ‘I Could See His Deep Interest in Jews and a Particular Connection to the Holocaust’
Britain’s Prince Philip waves to members of the media as he leaves the King Edward VII Hospital in London, June 9, 2012. Photo: REUTERS/Paul Hackett. Britain’s chief rabbi paid tribute to the late Prince Philip on Sunday, recounting how the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, who died on April 9, once showed him a Torah […]
Rabbi Robert Marx, who marched with Martin Luther King, dies at 93
Robert Marx, a pioneering social justice advocate and leading Reform rabbi who drew inspiration from his experiences marching with Martin Luther King, Jr., is dead at 93. He died on March 28 at the beginning of the Passover holiday, surrounded by family at his home in Saugatuck, Michigan, the Chicago Tribune reported. He had suffered […]
Brooklyn Hasidic rabbi is under investigation for promoting child marriage
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Brooklyn Hasidic rabbi under investigation for promoting child marriage
A Brooklyn rabbi is under investigation for allegedly arranging marriages between children as young as 15 years old. The Forward reported Thursday that the New York Police Department and Administration of Child Services are looking into the accusations against Yoel Roth, who runs Yeshiva Tiferes Hatorah in the Williamsburg neighborhood as well as a community […]
What being the ‘chosen people’ really means, according to Rabbi Benny Lau
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ADL Demands Investigation Of High School Football Players For Using ‘Rabbi’ and ‘Dreidel’ During Game
A Massachusetts high school admitted that its football team called plays named “rabbi, ”“dreidel,” and “Auschwitz” — and America’s self-appointed Hall Monitors™ — the Anti-Defamation League — has demanded a “full” investigation: Duxbury High School, about 30 miles southeast of Boston, called the plays during a March 12 contest, the Boston Globe reported. Head coach […]
Dr. Rabbi Wayne Allen: Thinking about Good and Evil
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