When Russian troops poured across the Ukrainian border in March, thousands fled from the cities that would be first in their path. But in Kherson, the southern port city with strategic value to the Russians, Rabbi Yosef Itzhak Wolff decided to stay put. His decision to remain put him in line with the philosophy of…
DetailsBefore a group of Orthodox Jews bought a single-family home for their rabbi in a residential area of Miami Beach nearly three years ago, they met with the city’s mayor, his assistant and an assistant city attorney. For years, according to court documents, neighbors had complained about the property, which sits a mile south of…
DetailsJewish groups are coming together throughout the world to pray for a woman who is a pillar of Milwaukee’s Jewish community. Henya Federman’s family runs all Chabad institutions across Wisconsin, including the Bader Hillel Academy in Whitefish Bay. This week, tragedy struck her and her family of thirteen children, while they were on a Chabat…
DetailsTALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Just days after a fire tore through the synagogue at Chabad House FSU, leadership began plans to rebuild better than ever. But nearly seven months in, the effort to bounce back has hit a financial snag. Rabbi Schneur Oirechman told WCTV several insurance claims for property inside the building were not accepted.…
DetailsASHDOD, Israel — American ultra-Orthodox Jews are celebrating the visit to Brooklyn of Israeli Rabbi Shaul Alter, a former senior Gur figure. The Gur sect is the largest Hassidic group in the world, with two main centers in Israel and in the United States. It wields a lot of influence over Jewish life in the…
DetailsNYACK – The Orthodox Jewish Congregation Yeshiva of Viznitz D’Khal Torath Chaim has been summoned to court for several building and code violations at the former Nyack College campus. The congregation purchased the former college on 107 acres for $45.5 million in 2020. The plans called for a school for 250 high school boys and…
DetailsJerusalem – The High Court of Justice struck a significant blow to the Chief Rabbinate’s monopoly on kashrut licensing Tuesday, ruling that restaurants and other food businesses can describe the kashrut standards they maintain as long as they make clear that they do not have a kashrut license.
In an effort to raise awareness of suicide in Israeli society and help towards prevention, more than 100 rabbis were given professional instruction at a conference of the Barkai association of communal rabbis on Tuesday.
Four Israelis were arrested in the southern city of Arad on Saturday night after violent clashes broke out between the city’s secular and ultra-Orthodox residents.
It certainly didn’t take very long. Mere months after its whirlwind introduction to our lives, the phrase “religionization” has undergone the same transformation “fake news” has—it was completely and forcibly stripped of its meaning.
