Tag: Judaism
Fearing coronavirus spread, chief rabbi upends key Rosh Hashanah ritual
A key ritual ahead of Rosh Hashanah has been effectively banned by Israel’s Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi David Lau this year, due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Tashlich, a prayer during which Jews symbolically throw their...
‘And your God will be my God’: For one Jewish convert, the wait is...
“I’m so thrilled to be a part of B’nai Israel and to have finally found my place with the Jewish people, after nearly 30 years of asking and searching.”
These are the first words Amy...
The Caged Lion
This year, the 3rd day of Elul, the yahrtzeit of Rav Avraham Yitzhak HaKohen Kook, falls on August 27. In addition to having been a master in all disciplines of Torah and a great...
Chocolate Chip Cookies and the Land of Israel
Believe it or not, chocolate chip cookies were one of the things that made me realize that a Jew’s true place is in Israel. When I started to learn about Judaism in Hollywood, someone...
More than 100,000 viewers worldwide tune in to online Torah event
More than 100,000 viewers worldwide tuned into a series of online lessons hosted this week by Yeshivat HaKotel, a major religious Zionist hesder yeshivah located across from the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City.
Dubbed the “Jewish...
My Life-Changing Encounter with an Elder Kabbalist
Sunday of this week, the fifth day of the Hebrew month of Av, marked the yahrtzeit of Rabbi Yitzhak Luria Ashkenazi, the holy Arizal, who is universally considered the father of modern Kabbalah. The...
Corona and Rabbi Akiva
Is the COVID-19 Epidemic all bad? The legendary Jewish Sage of old, Rabbi Akiva, teaches us that even in the Coronavirus we can discover some good. Interestingly, for the first forty years of his...
Longtime Yeshiva University president Norman Lamm sought to unify in divisive reality
It was a brave speech at the 1969 Ideological Seminary in Kiljava, Finland. Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm, then a prominent rabbi, theologian, professor and writer, in the Modern Orthodox world, was dissecting Neturei Karta,...
Iran’s chief rabbi: Israeli government doesn’t care about Judaism
The chief rabbi of Iran’s Jewish community, Yehuda Gerami, criticized the Israeli government on Sunday, denying any connection between Judaism and Zionism and claiming there was “total freedom of religion” in Iran.
In a Hebrew-language...
Jews come in all colors, but they shouldn’t be defined by race alone
For those who follow it, Jewish demography has always been a contact sport. But when it comes to the question of how many “Jews of color” are there really in the United States, the...