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Basic Law: Torah Study has more potential danger than meets the eye
4+ hour, 5+ min ago (737+ words) Basic Law legislation " that is, legislation of quasi-constitutional status " is currently making its way through the Knesset that would anchor the study of Torah as a foundational value of the State of Israel. Public criticism of the Basic Law on…...
Face to face: What Jewish leaders in Greater Boston learned during hard conversations about Israel
6+ hour, 7+ min ago (798+ words) There is a Jewish tradition to recite Tefilat Ha Derech, the Traveler's Prayer, before embarking on a journey. It is not a prayer for certainty, nor does it promise smooth roads, perfect companions or easy destinations. Instead, it asks for…...
Fathom " The UK's Sephardic Renaissance
4+ hour, 55+ min ago (360+ words) Karen Skinazi discusses the renaissance and new wave of Sephardic culture in the UK and reflects on Birmingham Jewish community's participation in the inaugural Jewish Culture Month. These newer "Oriental" Jews, from Iraq, Egypt, Yemen, Iran, Libya, Morocco, and beyond,…...
Jewish Quarter rabbi seriously injured in synagogue
5+ hour, 16+ min ago (193+ words) Rabbi Eliyahu Medina, the Sephardic rabbi of Jerusalem's Jewish Quarter, is hospitalized in very serious condition at Shaare Zedek Medical Center after suffering a severe head injury in a fall down the stairs of a synagogue. The incident occurred in…...
Bar-Ilan historian wins top prize for book on Orthodox American Jews" impact on Israeli Judaism
1+ hour, 26+ min ago (470+ words) Prof. Adam Ferziger, a historian in Bar-Ilan University's Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, has been named co-winner of the 2026 Shapiro Award for Best Book in Israel Studies for his book Agents of Change: American…...
The Blogs: Cosmic Moods: Reform Judaism Meets the Space Age
6+ hour, 18+ min ago (683+ words) In 1970 " soon after the lunar landing " the most prolific respondent in American Reform Judaism and an expert on responsa literature, Rabbi Solomon Bennett Freehof (1892-1990), published an article in the Jewish Book Annual, titled "Recent Responsa Literature on Modern Problems." Freehof's…...
The Blogs: My First Year in Israel: How'd I get here?
6+ hour, 20+ min ago (229+ words) For instance, How'd I get here? What possessed me? First, some perspective. Yet here I am, almost a year later, looking out my terrace window, watching my Jerusalem street come alive as I write. My experience is not unique. Whatever…...
Jerusalem Chief Rabbi Critical After Fall Near Synagogue
7+ hour, 43+ min ago (293+ words) Rabbi Eliyahu Madina, Sephardic chief rabbi of Jerusalem's Jewish Quarter, is in critical condition after a severe head injury sustained in a fall following Shachrit. Rabbi Eliyahu Madina, the Sephardic chief rabbi of the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem's Old City,…...
The Three Oaths
9+ hour, 53+ min ago (1582+ words) Ha Rav Shlomo Aviner is Head of Yeshivat Ateret Yerushalayim and author of over 250 books and 20, 000 articles on a wide variety of Jewish themes and Halakha. Many people in the Diaspora claim the while an individual who makes Aliyah is…...
Unsafe at MIT | Aish
8+ hour, 35+ min ago (409+ words) MIT never investigated its antisemitism crisis. Professor Yossi Sheffi wrote the book the university wouldn't, showing how his own campus turned on its Jews....