Tag: 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

In its response on Tuesday, the State noted that Rabbi Karim's responsa were prefaced with a proviso that these are not his legal rulings but rather his review of rabbinical law.

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.

Rabbi Riskin tried to put a leash on this cat and take it on a walkie when he told Ha'aretz he would accept Reform conversions should the Reform agree to the requirements of "immersion in the mikveh, circumcision, and basic knowledge and practice of Judaism."

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...

Two men and two women from the Carpathian mountain region attacked Rabbi Mendel Deitsch in Zhitomir.

Will Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman sign new administrative detention orders against Ettinger?

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...

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.

In 2001 Rabbi Sitruk suffered a stroke and after his recovery took the additional name Haim, following the traditional Jewish protection against illness by altering or changing one's name.

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.

They discussed kidnapping, torturing and forcing the get from the husband, either in the US or when he was on a trip to Ukraine.

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?

The appeal was submitted by The wife of Mohammad Majid Amaira, 38, from Dura, a member of the Palestinian security forces.