Tag: Rabbis
Israeli rabbis visit America, some for first time, to better understand US Jews
“We want to know them, to understand them and to know how to make it easier for them if they will consider making aliyah,” a participant told JNS.
Last month, 17 Israeli rabbis visited the...
Holocaust, Antisemitism, Looted Art, Argentina, Netherlands, Nazis
People often look at a rabbi as a scholar with the expertise to teach halachah (Jewish law) and adjudicate Jewish law disputes.
However, Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik (known to many as “the Rav”) said a rabbi is...
Gaslighting is not a Jewish value
Who would have thought that hundreds of rabbis would endorse vicious blood libels against the Jews? And worse still, call this a Jewish moral response?
An open letter signed by more than 400 rabbis from...
‘Strange turn of events made me do it,’ rabbis say of penning Oct. 7...
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...
Agudath Israel of America Rabbi Yaakov Perlow, 89, dies after contracting COVID-19
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...
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...
Navigating fine line between Torah observance and Israeli military service, politics aside
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...