I discovered a fascinating insight from one of the great Chassidic masters of Galicia, known for his famous work the “Bnei Yissasschar,” Rabbi Tzvi Elimelech Schapiro of Dinov (1783-1841).

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On the night of Sept. 14, he recruited his 74-year-old father Peter, a retired rabbi who is in poor health, to accompany him to the site of the mural. They brought an ax, a sledgehammer and a pry ...

Rabbi Ari Berman of Yeshiva University invoked the Israeli hostages held in Gaza and antisemitism on college campuses during his benediction at President Donald Trump’s second inauguration on ...

After President-elect Donald Trump delivers his inaugural address Monday, the next speaker Americans will hear will be a Bergen County rabbi. Ari Berman, a Teaneck resident and president of ...

ISTANBUL — Turkey’s Jewish community is mourning after Isak Haleva, chief rabbi since 2002, died at 84 on Tuesday. Haleva was the 35th person to hold the title of Hahambaşi, by which the ...

Immediately after their release from Hamas captivity, Israeli Chief Rabbi Kalman Ber sent a touching letter to Emily Damari, Doron Steinbrecher, and Romi Gonen. Rabbi Ber opened the letter by ...

A large crowd of family and friends of the Krasnjanski family gathered on Sunday to dedicate a Sefer Torah in honor of their beloved patriarch R’ Dovid Nachman Krasnjanski obm. Full Story, Photos A ...

Children have been dying from malnutrition." She's not the only one with doubts. Rabbi Dovid Asher with Keneseth Beth in Richmond's West End said the news brings about feelings of trepidation ...

“And so that you may tell into the ears of your son and your son’s son …. that you may know that I am Hashem” (Shemos 10:2). The Sfas Emes comments that by relating the story of yetzias ...

Isak Haleva, the chief rabbi of the Jewish community in Türkiye, passed away at the age of 85, the community announced on Jan. 14. Haleva had served as chief rabbi since 2002, following the death of ...