The ultra-Orthodox leadership in the United States has declared a sweeping rejection of the Open Orthodoxy movement, announcing it will not recognize rabbis identified with it.
The Rabbinical Council of America reacted angrily Friday to the Israeli Chief Rabbinate’s decision to reject conversions that were authorized by the chief dayan of the largest Orthodox rabbinical court in the United States.
Sixteen prominent Orthodox rabbis released a statement on Tuesday slamming controversial lecturer Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi, an international lecturer known for making contentious statements.
U.K. Education Secretary Nicky Morgan blasted Friday a decision by the Hasidic Belz sect to bar children driven by their mothers from entering the community’s schools, The Guardian reported Friday.
Tzipi Kaplan, the daughter of the late Rabbi and MK Meir Kahane, founder of The Jewish Defense League and the Kach party who was assassinated in New York by an Arab gunman, passed away over Shabbat at the age of 56, after a long struggle with a serious medical condition and suffering a severe CVA…
DetailsTwo Israelis were arrested by Italian police for flying a drone over Vatican city, Italian media reported on Sunday.
Tragedy on the eve of Yom Kippur: Two children, Achinoam and Nevo Greenfeld from the Binyamin region community of Michmash, were killed on Tuesday in a car accident during a family trip to Georgia.
Two 16 year old girls have been reported missing Motzei Shabbos, while on a Shabbaton trip in Orlando, Florida.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump does not rule out spying on Israel if elected, he said in an interview aired Sunday, but maintained he “would certainly not want to do it.”
He married at 18, had a son at 19, and became a rabbi soon after.
