Religion

Frankly, even if one does not support Trump's xenophobic attacks on "Rapist Mexicans" and "the Muslims," a group of 45 learned rabbis could have come up with a more convincing, perhaps intellectually challenging argument.

Seeing a beautiful or exceptionally gifted person arouses awe and admiration, explains Rabbi Melamed, but they also might arouse envy.

France has shut down at least 20 mosques and now has banned foreign funding of the Islamic houses of worship as well.

Yes, dear reader, there's an alliance between African Americans and Jews, there's a friendship and an affinity — they just don't exist on the extreme left of American politics. They probably never did.

'Let each stand as a unique holiday and let Tisha B'Av stand as the national day of mourning.'

The state of mind of "I can't do it" is the cause of defeat. That's the root of the destruction, said march organizer Yehudit Katsover.

Of course, no Jew has even mentioned Al Aqsa mosque, because Jews, especially religious Jews, prefer to attend their services in a synagogue, thank you very much.

Chabad-Lubavitch yeshiva students will be able to finish their rabbinic studies before military service under a new agreement.

A major source of strength to women in the yeshivishe Jewish world has moved on to the World to Come.

The curriculum at Nezer HaKodesh will include courses on the Temple service, theory and practice and the role and application of modern technology in the Third Temple.

The Chief Rabbi of Poland arranged for the Pope to meet with Righteous Christian Poles at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

"A terrible poison is spreading," the French PM cautions. "Slowly, insidiously, against the background of influences from abroad ... developed against a model of society which contradicts the Republic and its values."

The young men "shared" their lives on Facebook, proving they were not living Chareidi lives, as they had claimed to the IDF.

Another public personality from Georgia, this one a former member of Congress, steps forward to fling public anti-Semitism at Israel.

Barkat asked for a plaque with the words of David Ben-Gurion, who called Hebron 'Jerusalem's sister city.'

Viewing this plotting session of a murder, one is reminded of similar scenes involving mobsters and Hamas terrorists, except the godfather is in a talit and the gangsters wear shtreimlach.

The ISIS terrorists slit a priest's throat and wounded a second person in the church.

Shira's father said that "such a clear, strong, firm, and public official statement calling for moderation, tolerance, and acceptance of others is something that the State of Israel needs today maybe more than anything."

Rabbi Haskel Lookstein has backed out of offering the convocation for the Republication Convention.

The cops could not tell a photoshopped image from the real thing, and warned Brosh to cease and desist his subversive activities.

The Emperor said, “That would be YUGE. How do I know you're not lying?”

The saga of Israeli validation of conversions performed abroad by Orthodox rabbis continues and moves to the next level.

A new Chabad center opens in the East African nation of Kenya just in time for Rosh Hashana 2016 / 5777.

Many, if not all these "controversial" responses by Rabbi Krim can be easily explained within the context in which they were provided.

Images portray Noah’s ark and animals, chaotic parting of Red Sea

Rabbi Lookstein, the spiritual leader of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and for many years principal of the Ramaz School, also converted Ivanka Marie Trump.

"We should have a big water problem but we don't, we have a water surplus. We have a water surplus because we've developed ingenuity to overcome this."

In making our selection we looked for true pioneers, people who arrived when a certain situation was at point A, and due to their investment over a lifetime, things moved on to B or even higher in the alphabet.

Earlier this year, CAIR said Trump's repeating the story about US General John Pershing executing Muslim prisoners in the Philippines using bullets dipped in pig's blood was endangering American Muslims.

Confino's experience caught the attention of the former Archbishop of Canterbury, who called on government to intervene to stop the rise of “poisonous hate" on campuses.