An Israeli passenger responded violently on an EL AL plane from Poland on Wednesday over what he said was an “immodest movie” that was playing on the in-flight entertainment system, Channel 2 reported.
MK Israel Eichler (United Torah Judaism) launched a diatribe against the Reform Movement and the High Court of Justice over the court’s decision that people who did not convert through the state-sanctioned, Orthodox system must not be denied the right to immerse in public ritual baths.
In an unusual display, a wedding in Israel was tainted due to a dispute over the ketubah.
DAVIE, Fla. – An investigation is underway, after an overnight wrong way wreck in Davie that left one person dead.
The Rebbe of Erlau, Rabbi Yochanan Sofer, passed away in the early hours of Monday morning at age 93 following severe pneumonia that caused the deterioration of his health.
In spite of the slight improvements in his condition that took place over Shabbat, the Rebbe of Erlau Rabbi Yochanan Sofer, took a drastic turn for the worse on Sunday, and doctors are now fearing for his life.
Samuel Willenberg, the last survivor of Treblinka, the Nazi death camp in occupied Poland where 875,000 people were systematically murdered, has died in Israel at the age of 93.
Rabbi Dovid Goldstein, a chaplain in the Texas prison system, brought some light into a dark place when he secured for a Jewish death row inmate the right to put on tefillin, as part of his last rites.
Latin American young adults ages 25-40 who are deeply interested in Jewish culture, education and leadership will meet in Havana.
Israeli experts and an activist in contact with the remaining Jews in Damascus painted a bleak picture to The JP.