A woman living in France was represented in a Chief Rabbi beis din last week for the purpose of obtaining a ‘get’ from her husband by the Yad L’Isha organization, which is affiliated with Ohr Torah Stone Institutions.
Rabbi Eliyahu Shaar Yeshuv Hakohen, Rabbi of Haifa and among the leading rabbis of Israel, passed away at age 89 this evening.
Britain’s richest family, brothers David and Simon Reuben, are in advanced talks to sell half of their one of the world’s biggest computer hosting networks Global Switch to a Chinese consortium led by Daily Tech.
Hundreds of people have signed an online petition calling for the UK government to ban a rabbi who says that Down’s Syndrome and autism is punishment for sins in a previous life, two weeks before he is due to visit.
KAZAN, Russia — A Russian court dissolved a Jewish community association, in a move critics said was part of a crackdown on foreign NGOs but others said was procedural.
In the mid-1940s, Joel Teitelbaum, an eminent and charismatic rabbi, immigrated to the United States, colonizing a section of Williamsburg in Brooklyn for his Hasidic sect, the Satmar, its name taken from the Hungarian town of Szatmar, where Rabbi Teitelbaum had fought to resist the encroachments of a modernizing society.
Canton, NY – A head on collision late Thursday night in upstate New York took the life of a respected Canadian Orthodox Jewish scientist.
Brooklyn, NY – Hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid wages are at the center of a years’ old court case as teachers at a Brooklyn girls’ school allege that they are owed salaries from the year 2010.
A 22-year-old Jewish woman Rebecca Weisbard was R”L killed in a horse accident on Wednesday afternoon in Ulster County, in Upstate New York.
Israel’s Ministry of Education is investigating a report that a female teacher in an ultra-Orthodox school was fired for obtaining a driver’s license.