The organization serves as the main authority on Jewish law for the government and providers of religious services in the country. Five Ashkenazi and five Sephardi rabbis were elected on Tuesday ...

The Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Kalman Ber ... To begin my statement, I respectfully express the gratitude of the Jewish People residing in the Holy Land in Israel and throughout the world ...

"He was very moved by the prayer and thanked God," Rabbi Lazar described. "He asked for unity among everyone." The Jewish community in Russia gifted Troufanov a new set of tefillin and a book of ...

The Pope reached out, affectionately ran his fingers through my hair, then shook my hand, his handshake firm, hands warm. “Smile,” said the shutterbug who captured my father grinning, the Pope beaming ...

Her Reconstructionist grandparents had a “very rich” Jewish identity. But they were not religious. Rabbi Brous wanted to understand why. They had made choices that worked for them.

The country is not known to have had a resident rabbi servicing an active Jewish community there since 1918, the year it gained independence from what was then the Kingdom of Denmark. The ...

His work, continued after his death by later scholars laid the foundation for Jewish law as it is known today. Rabbi Ashi teaching at the Sura Academy at the Diaspora Museum, Tel Aviv / Beit ...

Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg of Masorti Judaism UK is likely the highest-profile European Jewish leader to express misgivings about Israel’s war in Gaza. (JTA) — The head rabbi of Britain’s ...

“And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.” “And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he ...

The wedding of the children of the chief rabbis of Russia and Ukraine pictured standing beneath the traditional Jewish “Chuppah” wedding canopy. Photo: social media / Jewish Press. Rivka, the daughter ...