Rabbi Benny Elon Passes Away
Former head of the Beit Orot yeshiva Rabbi Benny Elon has passed away after a long struggle with cancer.
Former head of the Beit Orot yeshiva Rabbi Benny Elon has passed away after a long struggle with cancer.
A rabbi is demanding a public apology from Heathrow airport after being told to remove his shoes inside its multifaith prayer room.
Prominent national-religious leader Rabbi Shlomo Aviner spoke out strongly on Monday against religious women serving in the IDF, saying they are contributing to the destruction of the State of Israel.
Rabbi Aryeh Finkel, the Rosh Yeshiva (Dean) at the Mir Brachfeld yeshiva in Modi’in Illit, and member of the Council of Torah Sages, passed away last night (Tuesday). He was 85.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin will meet with the country’s top Jewish leaders in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, local media reports. According to the TASS news outlet, Putin will meet with Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar and Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia president Alexander Boroda later today. This meeting comes after a top…
DetailsRussian President Vladimir Putin called on European Jews facing rising anti-Semitism to return to Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has fired a top national security official who recently drew widespread condemnation for calling the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement in Ukraine a supremacist cult, Russian media reported. No official reason was given for the Friday dismissal of the assistant secretary of the Russian Security Council Aleksey Pavlov. A spokesperson for the Security…
DetailsProvidence, RI – The Rhode Island congregation that worships at the nation’s oldest synagogue was in financial straits in 2012 when they decided to sell a set of ceremonial bells worth millions of dollars, congregants testified Wednesday in a legal dispute between them and a New York Jewish congregation, the nation’s first.
Providence, R.I. – Testimony has ended in a bitter fight over control of the nation’s oldest synagogue.
The American legal system is often held to be among the best in the world, but it is not when someone is the victim of conduct that is neither just nor legal.