Chief Rabbinate, burial society, National Insurance Institute and Religious Services Ministry agree to let non-Jews collect the bodies of those who die on the weekend, saving grieving families from being fleeced by private ambulance companies.
Chief Rabbi David Lau published an open letter to educators this evening (Sunday), in which he calls for them to “open their eyes” and deal with any and every instance of child abuse of any kind.
More than 1,000 ultra-Orthodox and Orthodox Jews from around the world gathered in Jerusalem this week to tackle some of their communities’ darkest taboos: sexual abuse and domestic violence.