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‘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...
Rabbi Yaakov Perlow, head of the Agudath Israel of America. Source: Screenshot.

Agudath Israel of America Rabbi Yaakov Perlow, 89, dies after contracting COVID-19

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Rabbi Yaakov Perlow, head of the Agudath Israel of America, passed away Tuesday morning. He was 89 years old. “We are devastated and broken-hearted to report the petirah of the Novominsker Rebbe, Harav Yaakov Perlow,” said a...
U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman gives an address during the annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries (Kinus Hashluchim) in New York, which took place this year from Nov. 11-16. Photo by Itzik Roytman.

5,800 rabbis and communal leaders celebrate Jewish life at Chabad conference banquet

Lettered and numbered circular tables lined the 150,000-square-foot New Jersey Convention Center, each one filled with a dozen rabbis and Jewish communal leaders, close to 6,000 people in all. They came together for the...
Israeli soldiers in the Nahal Haredi unit seen during a shooting exercise at the Peles Military Base in the northern Jordan Valley. Photo by Yaakov Naumi/Flash90.

Navigating fine line between Torah observance and Israeli military service, politics aside

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This past week an organization called “Forum of Reserve Rabbis,” a group of rabbis who serve as reserve soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces, released a new 50-page booklet roughly titled in English, “And...