CategoryJudaism

Hannukah is not a Jewish form of Xmas, nor is it a version of Yom Ha’atzmaut. The festival has a history we should all learn.

Religious Jews arriving to pay condolences to family of Eli Kay made to board plane under threat of arrest and desecrate Shabbat.

“The first step down this perilous road is a small elite gaining control over mass communication.” It is terrifying how quickly the public in strong democracies has accepted the idea of getting cancelled. Where are the Maccabees?

Chanan Kay had to take a public bus from city near his army base to Jerusalem, after being told his brother was seriously injured.

PM, Religious Affairs Affairs, and Public Security Ministers vow to make changes after 45 killed in Meron on Lag B’Omer.

A Hasidic rabbinical court in New York ruled on November 1 that it is ‘absolutely forbidden to administer the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine to children, adolescents, young men and women.

Budapest’s new $30m Holocaust museum sits in limbo as Hungary debates its contents.

What are we talking about – shortening life, or shortening dying?

Yeshiva students who do not have a Green Pass cannot attend yeshiva – and their yeshivas are being disqualified because of it, report says.

Was the serpent originally a form of ape? What fruit did the first sinners eat? And how does Lilith figure into the story? These intriguing questions have stirred the imaginations of illustrators of Hebrew manuscripts throughout history.

Why Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson didn’t make Aliyah and never visited Israel – and what that means for Chabad today.

Without question, Yaacov was in great need of the angels who accompanied and protected him, but why not the same ones everywhere?

The Conservative Movement now Is Reform and the Reform Movement is Unitarianism without a Messiah. It is collapsing before our eyes.

Rabbi Doniel Katz raises difficult questions about the media’s motives for critical engagement with the haredi public.

Reform Movement, Women of the Wall activists arrive at Western Wall Plaza, sparking backlash from Orthodox worshippers.