In a shocking development, the embattled founder of Germany’s non-Orthodox rabbinical schools has relinquished his ownership stake in them to the Jewish Community of Berlin. The 25,000 euro transaction means that Rabbi Walter Homolka is no longer in control of the Reform Abraham Geiger College and the Conservative Zacharias Frankel College at the University of…
DetailsThe case of the Lebanese born man who found himself at the center of a scandal in Brooklyn’s Syrian Jewish community has made its way into the Tel Aviv court system. In October 2021, Eliya Hawila married a young Syrian-Jewish woman in Brooklyn, New York in an Orthodox Jewish ceremony – despite having been raised…
DetailsNEW YORK — A leading US Orthodox group this week launched a campaign pushing back against New York Times coverage that has criticized the local Jewish religious school system. The campaign from Agudath Israel of America, an umbrella group, aims to provide an alternative narrative on the Orthodox community to the general public. The New…
DetailsStrictly-Orthodox girls in London have been warned by religious authorities to stay away from a women-only concert being performed by an Orthodox Jewish female singer because it may cause “spiritual harm”. The row, involving several Charedi girls’ schools and the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations (UOHC) umbrella group, centres on the singer Bracha Jaffe, a…
DetailsThe secret to hot sex is never sleeping with your spouse. A mother of four says she and her husband maintain a “passionate and spicy” sex life because they sleep in separate beds. Orthodox Jew Miriam Ezagui, 36, also abstains from being intimate with husband Aron, 35, for two weeks of the month due to…
DetailsRabbi Yaakov Meir Schechter, one of the great Breslov Hasidim, disappeared Saturday night from the apartment that he had been living in for the last few weeks in Beit Shemesh. The Jerusalem District Police detectives are investigating to find where Rabbi Schechter was taken to, as well as attempting to trace some of his grandchildren,…
DetailsEven though rhinoplasty is a surgical procedure that is becoming less popular in many Western countries, it is becoming a growing trend amongst Orthodox and Modern Orthodox young women before they begin dating – according to a popular plastic surgeon in the Orthodox communities in New York. “A lot of younger women in the Orthodox…
DetailsThe Admor Rebbe Yoshiyahu Pinto Was received with great honor by the Jewish community in Antwerp, Belgium, when he arrived for a day’s campaign. He had come to offer strength to the local Jews, and was accompanied by his son, Rabbi Yoel Moshe Pinto. Rabbi Pinto remained in Antwerp for a day, which he spent…
DetailsBritish Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis is set to be granted a knighthood by King Charles III, as seen in the 2023 New Year’s Honours List published on Friday evening. The Honours List is a list of British nationals or Commonwealth citizens who have been selected to receive an honor for exceptional achievements or service. Honors…
DetailsMoscow’s exiled chief rabbi says Jews should leave Russia while they still can, before they are made scapegoats for the hardship caused by the war in Ukraine. “When we look back over Russian history, whenever the political system was in danger you saw the government trying to redirect the anger and discontent of the masses…
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