THE future of Rabbi Pinchus Feldman as a member of the Rabbinical Council of New South Wales (RCNSW) hangs in the balance after a formal complaint was lodged against him this week by child sexual abuse victims’ advocate Manny Waks.
ALL members of the Rabbinic Council of NSW (RCNSW) could have an opportunity to vote on the status of Rabbi Pinchus Feldman as an RCNSW member.
Let us begin with the facts: Converts whose conversions were conducted according to halachah, or Jewish law, are 100 percent Jewish.
Rav Zalman Leib Teitelbaum of Satmar arrived today in Eretz Yisroel to participate in the bris of his grandson. The baby is a son of his son, Rav Chaim Tzvi Teitelbaum, who is the rov of Rav Zalman Leib’s kehillah in Yerushalayim.
Randi Zuckerberg, an entrepreneur, radio host and sister to Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, discussed and encouraged “unplugging” from electronic devices on Shabbat while at the One-to-One forum in New York this past June.
NEW YORK — It’s an inspirational story about a mother, grandmother, and founder of a nonprofit. Now, the Brooklyn woman just added New York State Supreme Court judge to her resume. Acting Judge Rachel Freier is believed to be the first Hasidic woman to hold the role, and it’s not the first time she has broken…
DetailsThe Rabbinical Committee for Communication Affairs is demanding that the prominent ultra-Orthodox Eda Haredit organization employ inspectors to patrol authorized cell phone stores in haredi neighborhoods and ensure that the devices sold in those stores are indeed “strictly kosher” – with no camera or Internet access.
The Batei Din Rabbaniyim, or Rabbinical Courts, held their annual educational training conference for dayanim – or rabbinical judges – last week. What made this year’s conference unique was the fact that for the first time, serious thought was given to improving the courts’ image, in the face of their extremely negative portrayals in film…
DetailsIsrael’s Rabbinical Court system statistics for the past five years paint an interesting picture regarding the number of estranged spouses who refuse a divorce (unless their conditions are met), the low number of dispensations given to men to marry a second wife, and more.
The Be’er Sheva Rabbinical Court published a ruling that a person previously considered to be a mamzer was “permitted to marry an Israelite,” which is the official way of saying he is, in fact, not a mamzer.
