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The letter sent last week to Rep. Ted Lieu, a Democrat, represents the spectrum of Jewish belief, joining Orthodox, Reform, Reconstructionist and Conservative rabbis. Sixteen rabbis and a cantor signed the letter to Lieu, whose district covering much of western Los Angeles County has a substantial Jewish population. Jewish activists have recently taken a higher […]
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Rabbis across denominational spectrum urge congressional action on Uighurs
March 3rd, 2021 
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No Comments »Rabbis Issue Warning: Ovens With New Safety Feature Will Displease ‘God’ On The Sabbath
February 23rd, 2021 Awake Goy The Federation of Synagogues has warned that several leading brands of oven are unsuitable for Sabbath and festival use because of a new safety feature: Bosch, NEFF and Siemens electronic ovens now automatically switch off their heating elements when the oven door is opened. Therefore, anyone opening the door would breach the prohibition against turning […]
Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef endorses Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States
February 17th, 2021 Awake Goy Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef has given his official endorsement to the Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States, an association of rabbis serving Jewish communities in 14 Muslim-majority countries. Yosef issued a formal letter of recognition for the alliance on Monday, and noted that the recent normalization agreements with four Arab states could pave the way […]
Congresswoman who said ‘Hitler was right on one thing’ meets with rabbis
February 9th, 2021 Awake Goy A freshman congresswoman who said “Hitler was right on one thing” during a speech just before the Capitol insurrection met Monday with a right-wing rabbinical group that defended her from calls to resign. The Coalition for Jewish Values said Monday that Rep. Mary Miller, an Illinois Republican, had met with its rabbinic board and others […]
Orthodox Jewry reels as rabbis die during COVID-19 pandemic
February 3rd, 2021 Awake Goy Three times on Sunday, Orthodox men carried the body of a beloved Torah scholar wrapped in a black and white prayer shawl through the streets of Jerusalem to a freshly dug grave. First there was Rabbi Dovid Soloveitchik, the 99-year-old heir to a vaunted tradition of Talmud study. A few hours later it was Rabbi […]
For rabbis, America’s complex COVID-19 vaccine rollout becomes guesswork
January 30th, 2021 Awake Goy The email offered what felt like a lifeline to the dozens of rabbis in the Chicago area who received it last week. “Vaccines are now available for clergy,” an official with the Chicago Board of Rabbis wrote, passing along a link to sign up for a COVID-19 vaccine. Days later, some of those rabbis were […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: america, becomes, complex, covid, Rabbis, rollout, Vaccine No Comments »U.S.Rabbis Accuse Israel Of ‘Pure Racism’ After Black Ugandan Jews Rejected For Immigration
January 29th, 2021 Awake Goy American Jews with ties to a small community of Jews in Uganda have condemned the Israeli Interior Ministry’s “racist” decision to reject the right of those Jews to immigrate to Israel — simply based on the color of their skin: The ministry was responding to a Supreme Court petition by Kibita Yosef, a Ugandan Jew […]
The ultra-Orthodox street has been ablaze for 5 days, and rabbis can’t stop the flames
January 26th, 2021 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved Views: 0
European rabbis fume after Tunisian president blames country’s unrest on ‘THIEVING JEWS’
January 23rd, 2021 Awake Goy The Conference of European Rabbis (CER) has expressed “deep concern” for Tunisia’s Jewish community and condemned inflammatory remarks by the country’s president who casually blamed the ongoing unrest on “thieving Jews.” “We consider that the Tunisian government is the guarantor of the security of Tunisian Jews,” CER President Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt said, as […]
Posted in Jews, Middle East Tags: after, blames, country, european, president, Rabbis, tunisian No Comments »Hamilton, Ontario Rabbis Declare Support for Black Woman Councillor Targeted With Racist Messages
January 22nd, 2021 Awake Goy Hamilton City Hall in Hamilton, Ontario. Photo credit: Montrealais / Wikimedia Commons. A group of rabbis in the Canadian city of Hamilton, Ontario have issued a statement of solidarity with a local councillor who received two racist, threatening phone calls in the wake of the Jan. 6 riot on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Nrinder […]
Rabbis in DC rush to calm congregants on edge after mob chaos at Capitol
January 7th, 2021 Awake Goy Ruth Friedman could tell that Wednesday’s pro-Trump protests in Washington, D.C., might be volatile when she boarded a plane home to D.C. from her grandmother’s funeral on Tuesday. The flight was full of people in MAGA gear on their way to Washington to protest the results of the presidential election, as President Donald Trump had […]
Orthodox Jewish groups endorse coronavirus vaccine, rabbis follow suit
December 31st, 2020 Awake Goy The Orthodox Union (OU) and the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA), two Orthodox Jewish religious organizations, released a statement in mid-December encouraging their community members to get vaccinated. Some American Orthodox rabbis have bolstered the statement.“It is not a task that we are undertaking to try to convince the anti-vaccine movement,” OU executive vice president […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: coronavirus, endorse, groups, Jewish, orthodox, Rabbis, Vaccine No Comments »Rabbis call for external inquiry into death of youth killed during police chase
December 28th, 2020 Awake Goy Browse > Home / News / Rabbis call for external inquiry into death of youth killed during police chase December 28, 2020 by Aryeh Savir – TPS Read on for article Dozens of Israeli rabbis, including city rabbis and heads of yeshivot from across the spectrum, called on Minister of Internal Security Amir Ohana to establish […]
Rabbis, imams release doves in Dubai
December 17th, 2020 Awake Goy DUBAI – The newfound peace between Israel and the United Arab Emirates was celebrated on Wednesday with a ceremony in which white doves were released heavenward by three rabbis and two imams.The ceremony took place at the Isra Dubai Business Forum, a conference at the Marriott Marquis Dubai Hotel organized by businessman Haim Weizman. Dozens […]
Rabbis, imams to release doves in Dubai in name of peace deal
December 16th, 2020 Awake Goy Dubai, UAE — The newfound peace between Israel and the United Arab Emirates will be celebrated on Wednesday with a ceremony in which white doves will be released heavenward by three rabbis and two imams. The ceremony will take place at the Marriott Marquis Dubai Hotel at the Isra Dubai Business Forum, a conference organized […]
The rabbis’ gambit: A brief history of Jews and chess
December 14th, 2020 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved Views: 0
How Two Rabbis From Cincinnati Stole Christmas Traditions To Invent Hanukkah As A Competing Jewish Holiday
December 12th, 2020 Awake Goy Two Cincinnati rabbis — who felt that Jews in America needed a holiday of their own to compete with Christmas — are responsible for contriving and popularizing Hanukkah in America, according to Dianne Ashton, a professor of religion studies at Rowan University: In an editorial published by the independent media website, The Conversation, Ashton explains […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: Christmas, Cincinnati, hanukkah, invent, Rabbis, stole, traditions No Comments »US rabbis appeal to Trump: Pardon Jewish comic accused of bank fraud
November 1st, 2020 Awake Goy JTA — Ari Teman, a Jewish standup comic who once won a national contest seeking a “Jewish community hero” has united an array of Orthodox rabbis with leading standup comics in an appeal to President Trump to pardon him for bank fraud. Teman has compiled a video to be launched on social media next week […]
Leading Argentine rabbis deny businessman’s claim they run kosher meat ‘mafia’
October 30th, 2020 Awake Goy BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — After Jewish institutions came out in support of a businessman who is vowing to take on what he calls a “mafia” that sets the price of kosher meat, leading Argentine rabbis criticized the accusations that they are involved in artificially raising the cost of kosher food. The group of rabbis, including […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: argentine, businessman, claim, kosher, leading, mafia, Rabbis No Comments »Trump tweets ‘thank you Rabbis’ re-releasing letter of support from 13 Orthodox leaders
October 27th, 2020 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved Views: 0
