admin | March 21, 2024
Politicians around the world, media personalities, and UN officials have been warning and even threatening Israel not to proceed with the war and particularly not to engage in Rafah the last strong hold of Hamas on the border of Gaza with Egypt. They argue that the cost in civilian casualties would be too high.
admin | March 21, 2024
In an ironic twist, a U.S. delegation tasked with advancing religious freedom cut short their visit to Saudi Arabia after its chairperson, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, was asked to remove his religious head covering while out in public
admin | March 21, 2024
(New York Jewish Week) An arsonist with a tattoo reading KILL Rabbi Max was sentenced to decades in prison for setting fire to a rabbis home in 2019. Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email Matthew Karelefsky, 46, was convicted last month of charges including attempted murder, arson and assault for the crime in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Midwood. On Monday, he received a sentence in Brooklyn Supreme Court of 25 years to life in prison
admin | March 21, 2024
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, the chief Sephardi rabbi of Israel, recently threatened a mass exodus of the ultra-Orthodox community if any of its members were conscripted. For those who dont know the inner workings of the Israeli Defense Forces, it mandates two to three years of army service for all 18-year-olds. This has been the reality almost since the birth of the country.
admin | March 21, 2024
ISRAEL (VINnews) Rabbi David Yosef, a leading Sefardi Rav, says that this Purim, due to the war, people should refrain from public celebrations. He said that while people should celebrate privately, public celebrations would convey an appearance that those who are celebrating are not feeling the pain of people who are suffering, and it would thus create a chilul Hashem
admin | March 21, 2024
By Paul E. Brody, MD The 13th of Adar, erev Purim, marks the 20th yahrzeit of our dear Rabbi Dr.
admin | March 21, 2024
Towards the end of the Story of Purim, the Persian king Achashverosh overturned his awful decree against the Jews, sending out messages throughout his kingdom to announce that the Jews had permission to fight back against their enemies. As the Bible reports, and he sent scrolls in the hands of the runners withsusim, the riders of therechesh, theachashtranim, sons of theremachim (Est
admin | March 21, 2024
When Adina Sash, aka Flatbush Girl, called for a sex strike to help free Malky, a 29-year-old woman who has been chained to a dead marriage for four years with no hope for a divorce in sight, the big news was the idea of the strike.
admin | March 21, 2024
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks described Judaism as the religion of hope. Israel is the country of hope after all, our National Anthem is called Hatikva The Hope. But right now, as I write these words with the tears in my eyes obscuring the keyboard, it doesnt feel like there is any hope
admin | March 21, 2024
As has often been remarked upon, we Jews love to argue.
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