Jewish Religion and Thought
“We must never react with defeatism, which simply rewards evil and feeds darkness; our fear of evil only feeds and animates it,” said Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, who was injured along with two others in the April 27 attack by a lone gunman.
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Deitsch fell into a coma after being assaulted in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, in October 2016, dying six months later.
“I release [Benjamin] Netanyahu from any commitment to me and to the New Right, and am ready to sit in the opposition. The main thing is to get a government established,” says the New Right leader.
“What is Judaism? Is it a religion, nation, culture or peoplehood?” posed one session.
A new 50-page booklet intended to provide male soldiers with guidelines to maintain strict religious principles in a primarily secular and co-educational army sets off (yet another) firestorm with Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman, who slammed the publication.
New booklet for religious soldiers on the Jewish laws of modesty is part of a “messianic” threat to the religion-state status quo and must be banned, says Yisrael Beiteinu leader.
Coins found above and below a 2,000-year-old road to the Temple Mount prove that it was constructed between 31 and 40 C.E., and thus likely commissioned by the infamous Roman governor of Judea.
A newly established research center at the Jerusalem College of Technology seeks to answer pivotal religious questions, such as: Can you send Alexa voice commands on Shabbat?
The Foundation Stone institute was founded to strengthen ties between members of religions with much in common.
Prosecutors said that between 2002 and 2003, Rabbi Daniel Greer repeatedly had illegal sexual encounters with Eliyahu Mirlis, then 15, at Yeshiva New Haven, which Greer had founded and served as dean.
It concluded the “Awake Jerusalem” event, a three-day gathering where hundreds of Christians from more than 10 nations assembled at key sites in the city for worship, teaching and prayer.
The new immigrants had all made aliyah to Israel with the assistance of the Jewish Agency just two months earlier, as they begin their lives in Israel bringing in the Jewish new year, 5780.
