Tag: Orthodox Jews
Thirty days, 85 years
This week marked 30 days since the Oct. 7 massacre.
Jews traditionally divide mourning into three stages—one week of shiva, 30 days, known as shloshim, and one year, marking the end of the formal grieving period. The...
Latest Pew survey: Young American Jews are increasingly Orthodox or unaffiliated
Young American Jews are moving in two very distinct directions—towards Orthodox or little Jewish engagement. That was one of the major findings from “Jewish Americans in 2020,” a new study by the Pew Research...
The impact of Orthodox Jews on the US presidential election
To borrow a phrase from the great Yogi Berra, the upcoming U.S. presidential election is beginning to feel like “déjà vu all over again.”
In 2016, then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was down by more...
Poll: 83 percent of Orthodox Jews would vote for Trump
If the U.S. elections were held today—three weeks before the Nov. 3 election—83 percent of Orthodox Jews would vote for U.S. President Donald Trump, according to a poll released on Wednesday.
An Ami magazine poll of 1,000...
Thousands of Jews Internationally To Learn Torah Together through Orthodox Union’s Torah Yerushalayim
Thousands of participants from around the world are expected to participate in Orthodox Union’s (OU) virtual Torah Yerushalayim that brings a blue-ribbon list of rabbinic scholars, educators and Jewish communal leaders for three days...
Orthodox synagogue in Harrisburg is defaced with swastika
Police in Harrisburg, Pa., are investigating the vandalism of a local synagogue.
Swastikas were spray-painted on the exterior of Kesher Israel Synagogue, an Orthodox congregation. The graffiti was removed shortly after it was found on...
טויזנטער פֿרומע ייִדן שענקען פּלאַזמע צו העלפֿן די קאָראָנאַ־געליטענע
לאַנג איידער ס׳רובֿ מענטשן האָבן אָנגעהויבן רעדן וועגן בלוטפּלאַזמע, האָט ד׳׳ר שמואל שוהם זיך שוין געכאַפּט, אַז דאָס בלוט פֿון די, וואָס האָבן זיך אויסגעהיילט פֿונעם קאָראָנאַ־ווירוס, וואָלט געקענט העלפֿן די פּאַציענטן, וואָס זענען...
Viral video star is an Orthodox education pioneer
Did you see a viral video last month on Yom Hazikaron of a yeshivah teacher leading an inspirational discussion about modern Israel with haredi high school students? So did everyone else in the Jewish Facebook world.
But who is the instructor...
Orthodox group says loans from Quicken are forbidden under Jewish law
The Agudath Israel of America organization issued a Jewish legal ruling prohibiting Jews from taking out loans from majority-Jewish-owned American mortgage lender Quicken Loans, due to the fact that Jews are forbidden to charge...
Hebrew Institute instructed to cool it on same-sex unions
Same-sex marriage has been the law of the land for some time now, but many religious institutions — like Orthodox Judaism — refuse to embrace this “modern” way of thinking, citing laws that go...