The Vienna Conversions – plots and facts
Litvish activists and Chabadniks spread lies and conspiracies surrounding the case of the Vienna converts and the rabbis who converted them.
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Rabbi Azriel Goldfein: An American who became a great South African Rosh Yeshiva.
Continuing the series about foreign born rabbis who selflessly served South African Jewry over decades.
A Rabbi reminisces about Jewish hopes, dreams and struggles in South Africa.
Stories that will touch your heart from “With Ink in the Book...Stories and Sketches of Jewish Life in Rural Centers in South Africa."
Bechukotai: We must appreciate our community Rabbis and Rebbetzens.
Putting a comma in a different place in a verse in the Parasha changes the whole meaning of the verse.
Israel's leaders mourn Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky
Leaders have expressed their sorrow at the passing of one of the generation's greatest Rabbis this afternoon.
Education Dep't approves Yeshiva University mental health program
Yeshiva University pastoral counseling program gets nod from NYS Education Department.
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef: 'Minor rabbis' mislead Minister Kahana
Sephardic Chief Rabbi rails conversion, kashrut reforms of Religious Affairs Minister Matan Kahana.
Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu: Kahana beholden to Meretz, leftists
Hundreds of rabbis demonstrate against conversion reforms. Safed Chief Rabbi says reform dangerous to Judaism.
Open letter invites rabbis to the 'protest of the century'
Right-wing protestors have appealed for Rabbinical support at more than one hundred planned demonstrations on Tuesday night.
Rabbis and leaders to PM Bennett: Open the gates of Israel to non-citizens
Over 300 rabbis, communal leaders and heads of Jewish organizations signed a letter to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett
'One of the pillars of the Jewish people'
Film on the late Rabbi Eliezer Waldman produced by Ulpanei Etrog 4 years ago for the Nir yeshiva.
Debunking Holocaust Denial by remembering Rabbis martyred in the Holocaust
Nazis targeted Jewish leaders, especially rabbis, as their first victims when moving into Jewish areas, because rabbis meant continuity.
Wayward journalists
Journalists want rabbis who are in the House of Study, away from the public, trotted out for ceremonies and with no say on religion..Op-ed.
Methods of leadership regarding public issues
Barricading within their own camp caused some rabbis to forfeit Torah values such as settling the Land, natural sciences, and the IDF.
Rejecting Rabbi Gerami’s ‘hechsher’ of Iran’s ayatollah regime
The publication that spread the ayatollah regime’s propaganda on Iranian Jews did not explain the reasons for doing so. Op-ed.
Meet the rabbi comfortable walking on the streets of Saudi Arabia
Rabbi Yaakov Herzog discusses being a Jew in Saudi Arabia and efforts to establish Jewish community infrastructure there.
Emergency meeting of Hesder Rabbis
Budget cuts force rabbis to ask Prime Minister for emergency assistance to keep yeshivas open next year.
Yamina's plan to negate haredi influence on key committee
Religious Affairs Minister intends to ensure more rabbis, religious judges appointed from Religious Zionist community.
Rabbis urge Pelosi to remove Omar from House Foreign Affairs committee
More than 200 rabbis call on House Speaker to remove Minnesota Rep from House Foreign Affairs Committee following anti-Israel remarks.
Does a community always need a rabbi?
Special online conference dealt with the special role of the community rabbi in today's world
Rabbis to MK Orbach: Don't resign, oppose the government
Rabbis write letter to MK Nir Orbach: The political chaos will not be resolved by forgetting our faith and values.
Canadian gov needs to "tackle anti-Semitism head on," says Montreal Board of Rabbis
Board calls for governments, civil society leaders and people of good conscience to denounce anti-Semitism.
Disavowed Chabad of Westborough rabbi answers charges
Rabbi Michoel Green: 'It is a grave departure from Judaic values to engage in such unspeakable behavior.'
ZAKA founder Yehuda Meshi-Zahav calls some rabbis 'worse than Holocaust deniers'
The founder of ZAKA has had enough of people denying the deadly nature of COVID-19
Do I or don’t I take the COVID-19 vaccine?
Rabbis and rabbinical organizations are giving their advice. Some adamant everyone must, others just as adamant that no one should. Opinion
Leading US Rabbi Gedalia Dov Schwartz passes away
A leading halakhic authority, Rabbi Schwartz was Av Beth Din of the Beth Din of America and Rosh Beth Din of the Chicago Rabbinical Council.
Rabbi Dr. Elie Abadie to Arutz Sheva: High probability Trump will win
Doctor and Trump associate Rabbi Abadie to Arutz Sheva: "Trump likes to be straightforward. He has changed the false Middle East discourse."
Trump acknowledges rabbis who thanked him
“Thank you Rabbis!” tweets US President after prominent rabbis thanked him for calling religious institutions "essential" during pandemic
Rabbis thank President Trump
13 prominent American rabbis sign letter thanking US President Donald Trump for calling religious institutions 'essential' during pandemic.
Rabbi deplores rabbi's call to 'beat protesters 10 times harder'
Rabbi Yitzchak David Smith responds to Rabbi Avraham Kirschenbaum, who called to 'give ten times more beatings' at protests.
Rabbi's Viewpoint 2020: Faith in the Age of COVID
Stephanie Locricchio interviews Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Smith, lawyer who studied biology, virology, infectious disease at UC Berkley.
Pittsburgh Rebbe passes away
Weeks after becoming infected with the coronavirus, Rabbi Mordechai Yissachar Ber Leifer passes away at the age of 64.
The King's vineyard is ablaze
Close to a century ago, the Chofetz Chaim mourned the loss of modesty in Jewish circles. Today, every border is on fire. Opinion.
'This is a time to join hands, not to twist arms'
Yeshiva heads issue urgent call: Stop expressing incitement, agitation, and violence that could lead to bloodshed.
Tzfat Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu: 'Mandelblit fell for Reform's narrative'
On allowing women to take rabbinate exams: 'We favor Torah study for women, but AG directive stems from Reform. He didn't even speak to us.'
Neo-Nazis interrupt Torah lessons on 'Zoom'
On Holocaust Memorial Day, neo-Nazis break into online Torah lessons given by German rabbis.
Coronavirus victims in NY: Senior Rabbinic leaders
Rabbi Yisroel Yechezkel Plutchok founded the Yeshiva with his late brother in 1974
Rabbanim react to story of imprisoned woman
24-year-old Hodaya Monsango made headlines this week after news spread of her shocking arrest and imprisonment.
Monotheistic faiths sign joint paper against euthanasia
Historic meeting at the Vatican: World religious leaders join Chief Rabbis' call in denouncing assisted suicide.
'We resigned due to your action against the Chief Rabbinate'
12 rabbis resign from Tzohar rabbinic organization, saying it 'crosses red lines and engages in public deception.'
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