A Shlichus Feud in Washington, DC which spilled out into secular courts has been boldly profiled by the Washingtonian, a popular news magazine which gave its take on the fight between Levi Shemtov and Yudi Steiner.
Mikveh attendants throughout Israel are being trained to spot and help battered women from the ultra-Orthodox, or haredi, community. The training is being run through the City Without Violence program in the Public Security Ministry.
MOSCOW- A senior Russian rabbi warned of grave danger to Jews if Russian President Vladimir Putin is swept from power.
ROME – Elio Toaff, the long-time chief rabbi of Rome who helped guide the recovery of the city’s Jewish community in the wake of World War II and who was key in ushering in a period of closer ties with Roman Catholics, died Sunday in Rome 11 days short of his 100th birthday.
Jerusalem – Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, the chief cleric in charge of overseeing religious affairs at the Western Wall, denounced the prayer rights group Women of the Wall on Monday for bringing a Torah scroll into the women’s section of the plaza adjoining Judaism’s holiest site.
It promises a revolutionary innovation that could transform Jewish Sabbath observance.
A Rockland County boy remains in critical condition after being struck while riding his bike on one of Monsey’s busiest roads last night.
London – Divers have recovered the body of 19 year old Moshe Yitzchok Greefeld who drowned in Hampstead Heath in London Wednesday evening.
A day after his conviction on bribery charges, Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto, head of the Shuvu Yisrael sect, told followers that his suffering would save the Jewish people from “a difficult judgment. We accept everything with love and the knowledge that the patience we have had in the past years cause a ‘sweetened judgment’ for the…
Every part of of Kim Kardashian has probably been exposed to the world by now, between her infamous sex tape, reality television, and most recently, the photographs that “broke the Internet.”