Tag: Halachah
Jews worldwide join Israel’s farm families for challenges and blessings of ‘shmita’ year
“Grant blessing on the face of the Earth and from its goodness satisfy us, blessing our year as the best of years. Blessed are you G-d who blesses the years.” — Morning prayers
If you look...
Graduation marks new class of leaders in Jewish law
The Susi Bradfield Women’s Institute for Halakhic Leadership (WIHL) of the Ohr Torah Stone network commemorated the graduation of its 2021 class, attended by hundreds of family and friends.
Three women—Rabbanit Dr. Hannah Hashkes, Rabbanit...
Get vaccinated now; the Torah commands it
During my visits to coronavirus wards at hospitals across Israel, I encountered a most worrying statistic. All of the hospitalized were relatively young people who had not been vaccinated. A few minutes after one...
Senior Israeli rabbis urge haredi communities to get COVID-19 vaccine
Senior rabbis in Israel on Tuesday issued a decree urging haredi communities to receive the coronavirus vaccine, declaring that “according to all acceptable medical parameters, it has been proven that the vaccines are safe.”
The decree was...
Same-sex couples may become parents, Israeli Orthodox rabbi rules
A religious-Zionist rabbi has decided to tackle a hot-button issue—couples from the LGBTQ+ community raising families.
On Saturday night, Rabbi Benny Lau, formerly of the Ramban Synagogue in Jerusalem. published a document—“Couplehood and Relationships for...
With synagogues shuttered, ‘porch minyans’ grow in Brooklyn
The streets of Crown Heights in Brooklyn, N.Y., were eerily empty at 7 p.m. on Thursday. Normally, children are out playing and parents rushing home from work or errands, with crowds of people out...