Haredi magazine begs terrorists: Please don’t murder us
A prominent haredi publication has raised eyebrows with an open letter in Hebrew and Arabic begging Arab terrorists not to attack haredi Jews, by highlighting the fact that most haredim do not More...
Chassidic Bar Mitzvah Boy Unexpected Star of New Oprah Show
Mendel Hurwitz woke up Tuesday morning to find himself a viral sensation. The 15-year-old son of Budapest-based Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries Rabbi Sholom and Devorah Leah Hurwitz, was profiled in the More...
Samson Fine & Riverdale Jewish Center: Rabbis Who Take Naked Steam Baths With Boys Must Be Fired
Imagine being a congregant at the Riverdale Jewish Center (RJC) during the High Holidays and listening to a sermon from the synagogue’s senior rabbi, Jonathan Rosenblatt, a man who admits to have More...
The “Hasidic Hendrix” Yosi Piamenta, passed away in New York
Yosi Piamenta, the Jewish guitarist and songwriter known as the “Hasidic Hendrix”—whose fusion of rock, Sephardic and Chassidic genres left an indelible impression on contemporary Jewish music—passed More...
Religious Zionist rabbis form private conversion court
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Prominent Israeli rabbis connected to the religious Zionist movement have established a private conversion court. The formation of the court comes a month after the Israeli government canceled landmark More...
Empowering Haredim and Uniting Israel Through Technology Education
Call me a nerd, but I’m hooked on technology. I am especially fascinated by artificial intelligence, namely bioinformatics, robotics, and human-computer interaction. For this reason, I have made More...
Watch: Architectural Plans for Third Temple Have Begun
Today, on the Fast of Av, Jews throughout the world mourn the destruction of the two Holy Temples of Jerusalem and pray for the rebuilding of the Third Temple. But one organization has been doing a lot more More...
Rabbi Avi Weiss Quits RCA
The always boisterous and sometimes controversial Rabbi Avi Weiss has resigned from the Rabbinical Council of America, the Orthodox rabbinical association of North America. He did so due to the RCA’s refusal More...
Haredim hire Mexicans to protest NY pride parade
Some Orthodox Jews who wished to protest the gay pride parade in New York City on Sunday were forced to hire Mexican laborers to replace them after rabbis forbade yeshiva students from taking part in the More...
Rabbi Eliezer Berland To Be Extradited to Israel On Molestation Charges
– – Holland’s Supreme Court has ruled Rabbi Eliezer Berland can be extradited to Israel where he faces charges of sexual molestation. This should end an Odyssey which has lasted for several More...