Klass: Women Rabbis Present Grave Threat to Fiber of Judaism
By Rabbi Yaakov Klass
The Israeli chief rabbinate has issued a threat which if carried out could lead to the direst of calamities, with ramifications for the future of Klal...
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A Guide To An Israeli Butcher Shop
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
When Americans travel to Israel for yom tov, they often do one of two things:
A. They either bring their choice cuts of meats from the United...
Who Is Entitled To Charity?
By Rabbi Meir Orlian
It was almost Purim, and the bima in shul was covered with charity boxes for matanos la’evyonim and zecher l’machatzis ha’shekel. The boxes represented a full array...
Orthodox Girls Find Their Performance Spotlight At Camp Maor
By Simi Lichtman
Gillian Herszage spends 48 weeks a year away from her best friends. As a ninth-grader from Columbus, Ohio, Gillian had spent most of her life straddling two...
Back to Basics: A Crisis Of Faith
By Rabbi Tuvia Teldon
Jews of all affiliations and people of all religions are not immune to experiencing a crisis of faith. Depending on the depth of one’s belief, there...
Haredi Anglo Immigrants Buck the Trend of Voting in Blocs
By Sam Sokol
BEIT SHEMESH, Israel (JTA) — On Saturday evening in this quiet Jerusalem suburb, hundreds of black-suited, predominantly American-born haredi Orthodox Jews gathered in a local synagogue. Representatives...
RAA Highlights Role in Religious Liberties Case
The Rabbinical Alliance of America/Igud HaRabbonim played a role in a groundbreaking religious liberty decision this week by the United States Supreme Court. In the case, Our Lady Of...
Illuminating Jewish Thought: Explorations Of Free Will, The Afterlife, And The Messianic Era
Authored by Rabbi Netanel Wiederblank, a maggid shiur at Yeshiva University, Illuminating Jewish Thought: Explorations of Free Will, the Afterlife, and the Messianic Era, is the first volume in...
New Study Shows Religion Can Make You Feel Better—Or Worse—Depending On Your Spirituality
A new study has found that participating in religious activities improved mood among those with depression and bipolar disorder, but only those who truly valued religion reaped these mood-boosting...