Several hasidic leaders have been casing London this week, hoping to raise funds to combat a court case where divorced parents, who became secular, are seeking to transfer their children to secular public schools.
One must admit the truth: Reading the book by Esti Weinstein, a former adherent of Gur Hasidism who committed suicide in June after long years of separation from her ultra-Orthodox daughters, is exhausting and sometimes boring. From a purely literary angle, as prose “Do As He Wills” is an immature text.
Rabbi Aryeh Finkel, the Rosh Yeshiva (Dean) at the Mir Brachfeld yeshiva in Modi’in Illit, and member of the Council of Torah Sages, passed away last night (Tuesday). He was 85.
Two weeks after Joel and Mindy Friedman moved house, all but a handful of the boxes have been unpacked. A new trampoline for their six children has been put up in the back garden and Joel’s collection of religious texts are already sitting on new bookshelves.
TENAFLY, New Jersey – A young boy from New York City has died after he was pulled from a swimming pool at a Jewish community center in northern New Jersey last week.
Last week should have been a crowning moment for the two ultra-Orthodox parties, United Torah Judaism and Shas.
The head of Berlin’s troubled Jewish community is condemning allegations in a German news report that he obtained his position by voter fraud.
“Chacham” Yom Tov Yedid, the oldest Rabbi in the Syrian Jewish community in the US, died on Wednesday night in New York. He was 93.
Mayor De Blasio, stop ignoring the welfare of Jewish children. Stop supporting policies that condemn them to a lifetime of poverty and illiteracy.
Jewish philanthropist Marcus Katz passed away last night at the age of 89. His funeral will take place tomorrow (Thursday) at 5:30 pm at the Har Hamenuchot cemetery in Jerusalem.