Hundreds of people have signed an online petition calling for the UK government to ban a rabbi who says that Down’s Syndrome and autism is punishment for sins in a previous life, two weeks before he is due to visit.
Former Gerrer Hassid Esti Weinstein who took her own life after years of estrangement from her family was laid to rest today (Tuesday) in the Yarkon Cemetery in central Israel.
In June 2008, exactly three years after I got married, I decided to get a divorce. I didn’t fall out of love with my wife. In fact, I never fell in love with her in the first place.
Just by coincidence, forty-eight hours after President Barack Obama announced a coming détente with Cuba, I was in Havana. And talking to a kosher butcher, of all people.
NEW YORK – Abby Stein is almost certainly the only ordained Hasidic rabbi who is also a woman.
In a strong rebuke to the ultra-Orthodox custodian of the Western Wall, the High Court of Justice ruled on Wednesday that women are not to be subjected any longer to intense body searches when entering the Western Wall.
Calling him an “Orthodox Jewish billionaire,” JTA interviewed Hershey Friedman about why he bought America’s largest kosher meat company, Agriprocessors, out of bankruptcy in 2009.
A 20-year-old Hasidic woman died of a heroin overdose in Brooklyn last month showing how even an ultra-insular religious community isn’t immune to the nation’s opioid epidemic.
The head of Berlin’s troubled Jewish community is condemning allegations in a German news report that he obtained his position by voter fraud.
An Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) from the Hatzalah in Rockland County, NY, helped save the life of a female passenger who fainted during a JetBlue Airlines flight from New York to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, during the early hours of Thursday morning. One photo shared on social media from the scene shows Naftali Schischa wearing blue…
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