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The exhibition will also feature a copy of the Rambam’s “Mishneh Torah” that was reportedly personally signed by Maimonides.
The Jerusalem College of Technology has launched a rabbinic ordination program that allows students to pursue clergy positions in English-speaking communities in Israel without jeopardizing financial security.
“We will continue to fight with determination and deal with offenses committed on social networks and anywhere else,” Israeli police said.
The Hermes 900, made by Elbit, can be used for intelligence-gathering and airstrikes.
Granting citizenship to anyone with a Jewish grandparent endangers the Jewish character of the state, said David Lau.
The elder rabbi of the national religious sector talks conversions, gay rights and the states of Israel’s Supreme Court in a no-holds-barred interview.
Written on an ivory comb unearthed in 2017, the sentence comprises seven words—a spell against lice.
Polls by Channel 12, Channel 13 and the Kan public broadcaster all predicted the opposition leader’s right-wing/religious bloc winning 60 mandates, one short of a majority in the 120-member Knesset.
Magnetic field reconstruction matched battle sites to Egyptian, Aramean, Assyrian and Babylonian military campaigns recounted in the Bible against the kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
Experts weigh in on the party’s ambitious plan to overhaul the country’s justice system.
“For the Jewish people, our texts are our collective inheritance,” Sefaria’s chief learning officer says.
“We’re the people of the book, but we don’t read our own book,” says Robert Weinger, a master shofar-blower who lives in Israel.