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Panelists discuss workforce integration, military service, and leadership shifts as the Haredi community faces growing internal and external pressures.
“We are deeply shocked and saddened by the desecration of the tomb of Rabbi Chaim Vital,” said the Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic Countries.
“This was an antisemitic, Hamas-supporting rally,” said Rabbi Yaacov Behrman, a community leader in the Crown Heights neighborhood.
It reveals that words—more than melody, rhythm or tempo—play a central role in helping individuals regulate their emotions.
Police are looking into several angles in the incident; no one was hurt.
In an emotional full-circle moment, former Hamas captive Eliya Cohen returned Sunday for the first time to the bunker from which he was kidnapped and donned tefillin.
The suspect smashed and threw around furniture in an apparent antisemitic incident, according to a local rabbi.
“Judge Solomson enjoys studying Talmud, playing tennis and spending time at the beach with his family,” according to his official bio.
The actor William Shatner, and congressmen from New York and Florida, were among those to post images of Chanukah menorahs.
“All Americans can learn from his tireless devotion to teaching, good deeds and charity,” stated U.S. President Donald Trump.
Rabbi Yosef Landa, who coordinates the movement’s online sale of leavened items for Passover, told JNS that it’s a “bona fide sale.”
“Brazen attacks on our places of worship have left deep scars in Montreal’s Jewish community,” stated Henry Topas, B’nai Brith Canada’s regional director for Quebec and Atlantic Canada.