In an effort to raise awareness of suicide in Israeli society and help towards prevention, more than 100 rabbis were given professional instruction at a conference of the Barkai association of communal rabbis on Tuesday.
The Association of Communal Rabbis will convene a conference in Jerusalem on Sunday to deal with the ramifications of the allegations of severe sexual abuse against Rabbi Ezra Scheinberg from Safed within the religious community.
Three senior judges from the High Rabbinical Court, Rabbi Eliezer Igra, Rabbi Shlomo Shapira and Rabbi Zion Luz, published a Torah opinion following the release from prison of head of the Orot Ari religious community in Tzfat (Safed), Ezra Sheinberg, and detailed what he must do to be accepted into the Katzrin community where he…
DetailsA court associated with the Israeli Rabbinate has ruled that a woman who underwent a conversion was legitimately married to a Cohen, awarding her full benefits when the couple divorced.
MONTICELLO – A judge has lowered bail against a rabbinical student charged with sexually assaulting an 11-year-old boy in Sullivan County.
The Council of the Chief Rabbinate in Israel reached a revolutionary decision Monday, according to which divorced mothers, too, must participate in child support costs and not just fathers.
An Orthodox rabbi has unleashed an extraordinary public attack against the head of the Spanish and Portuguese community for claiming “the homosexual revolution is a fantastic development for humanity”.
NEW YORK — Four men, including a rabbi, have been accused in a scheme to steal millions of dollars earmarked for preschoolers with special needs.
The Israel Police’s investigation of Rabbi Zvi Thau for alleged sexual assault and rape will be closed, KAN reported on Monday. The level of evidence necessary for passing the criminal threshold for committing sexual offenses was not found, according to the report.
DetailsYeshivah Centre chief rabbi Zvi Telsner has stood down after he allegedly accused sex abuse victims of trying to destroy his community, calling one “crazy”.
