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Radical secular protesters clash with religious Jews in Tel Aviv on Yom Kippur, Sept. 24, 2023. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Supreme Court overturns Tel Aviv ban on outdoor Yom Kippur prayers

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Israel's Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Wednesday night against a ban on gender-separated Jewish prayer services in Tel Aviv's public spaces during the holiday of Yom Kippur, local media reported. "We order that the appellants...
Former President Donald Trump, accompanied by rabbis from the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, prays at the Rebbe's Ohel in Queens, N.Y. Photo by Shabbos Kestenbaum/Chabad.org.

Former President Trump marks Oct. 7 with prayer visit to Ohel in New York

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Marking one year since the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks in southern Israel, former president and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump paid a personal prayer visit on Monday afternoon to the Ohel in...
Rosh Yehudi's lawyer, Harel Arnon (right), with petitioner Irit Linur at a hearing in Tel Aviv District Court on Sept. 4, 2024. Photo by Canaan Lidor.

Judge seeks rabbis’ input on separated prayer in Tel Aviv

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For the second time this month, the Tel Aviv District Court postponed ruling on a petition asking it to order the municipality to allow sex-separated prayers on Yom Kippur on public grounds. In the hearing...

‘Strange turn of events made me do it,’ rabbis say of penning Oct. 7...

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One of the images in a mournful poem by the seventh-century rabbi Eleazar ben Kalir, which is a central kinah prayer chanted on the Tisha B’Av fast day, refers to the silenced words of Temple singers. Giving literary form...

KKJ-JNF unveils rare photos of Tisha B’Av from early Israeli statehood

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Tisha B’Av, the pinnacle of the Jewish mourning period for destructions of the First and Second Temples, will be observed this year from sundown on Aug. 13 until nightfall on Aug. 13. It is...

Israeli soldiers recite blessing on Gaza fruit trees

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Israel Defense Forces troops on Wednesday recited Birkat Ha’Ilanot, the seasonal blessing on blossoming fruit trees, in the Netzarim Corridor that splits the Gaza Strip. According to Jewish law, if one sees fruit trees budding...

Thousands attend Western Wall prayer session for the return of hostages

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A special prayer session for the hostages being held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip and for the safety of Israeli forces was held at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on Wednesday. The...
An Israeli soldier during morning prayers near the border with Lebanon, Oct. 25, 2023. Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90.

US Jews supply thousands of tzitzit to Israeli soldiers

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As the Israel Defense Forces prepare to move into Gaza to destroy the Hamas terrorist group, an American rabbi affiliated with the Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidic movement has launched a campaign to supply Israeli soldiers with tzitzit,...
Rabbi Leo Dee speaks to reporters in Efrat, April 10, 2023. Photo by Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90.

Rabbi Leo Dee shoved during Sukkot prayers in Tel Aviv

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Rabbi Leo Dee, who lost his wife and two daughters in a terrorist attack in April, was intentionally barged into by a passerby while praying at Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv on Thursday morning. The passerby...
Jews participating in morning prayers at Tel Aviv's Habima Square, August 2, 2023. Photo by Gideon Markovich/TPS.

Jews pray at Tel Aviv’s Habima Square for World Tefillin Day

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A Jewish prayer gathering took place at Tel Aviv's Habima Square on Wednesday morning as part of World Tefillin Day. The event this year coincides with Tu B'av, celebrated in modern Israel as a holiday of love, but with ancient roots, dating back to the Temple period in Jerusalem when it marked the start of the grape harvest.