Tag: Rabbi
Chassidic rabbi, award-winning professor becomes Colorado’s first Jewish military chaplain
Rabbi Yerachmiel Gorelik, who runs the Chabad Jewish Center of Northern Colorado and Chabad Jewish Student Center @ CSU with his wife, Devorah Leah, and teaches at Colorado State University, is a recipient of the Best Teacher and Outstanding Faculty...
Netanyahu: ‘Rabbi Steinsaltz was an outstanding example of the persistent Jew’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was among the many public figures who eulogized internationally acclaimed talmudic scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, who died of on Friday in Jerusalem at the age of 83.
“Rabbi Steinsaltz was an...
Turning the page on a different kind of bar mitzvah learning
When Marina and Vladimir Druskin of Boston began planning for their son Mark’s bar mitzvah, they knew who their ideal Torah teacher would be. The only problem was that their go-to educator, Rabbi Levi...
One of Judaism’s great commentators, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, dies at age 83
Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, one of Judaism’s exceptional modern-day commentators, died in Jerusalem after suffering from acute pneumonia. He was 83 years old.
Steinsaltz was born in Jerusalem on July 11, 1937. His scholarship was...
Former Chabad of Poway rabbi pleads guilty to federal charges of fraud, tax evasion
Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, the former leader of Chabad of Poway in Southern California, was among several defendants who pled guilty in federal court on Tuesday to charges of fraud related to a multimillion-dollar tax-evasion...
New York Jewish cultural center to host imam with anti-Israel background
The prominent New York Jewish cultural center the 92nd Street Y, now known as 92Y, is scheduled to host a virtual event on June 18 featuring an imam who has defended the call for...
200 Israelis and 74 foreign nationals arrive home from abroad due to pandemic
A special flight with 200 Israelis who were stranded in Hungary departed on Thursday from the Hungarian capital of Budapest and arrived back to Israel. The Israelis had been unable to leave Hungary since...
Flight slated to bring 200 Israelis in Hungary home and return foreign nationals
A special flight bringing 200 Israelis stranded in Hungary back to Israel is scheduled to depart from the Hungarian capital of Budapest on Thursday.
The Israelis have been unable to leave Hungary since the country...
Only rabbi to serve in Illinois state legislature loses Democratic primary
The only rabbi ever to serve in the Illinois state legislature lost in the Democratic primary on Tuesday.
Rabbi Yehiel Kalish received 31.9 percent of the vote in the state’s 16th District, while the winner,...
Library of Congress in Washington to house English-translated Talmud
The world’s largest library—the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.—is scheduled to house a version of the Talmud this week.
Translated from Hebrew to English by world-renowned scholar Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, the religious tome...