Jewish Religion and Thought
The newspaper made the reference in a broader story about the artistic pursuits of a terrorist freed from Israeli prison.
“Our research emphasizes Halachah as a dynamic, flexible force—one that operates within real-life circumstances, not just above them,” said Haifa University researchers.
“This is truly wonderful news for our city, which longs for an expanded supply of housing,” said Beitar Illit Mayor Meir Rubinstein.
The troops received their dark blue berets following festive morning prayers together with their families and senior IDF commanders.
The biennial convention of the Conference of European Rabbis will discuss the expansion of the Abraham Accords to include Azerbaijan.
Ancient mourning practices versus spiritual atonement create Judaism’s most profound ritual paradox.
“Two thousand years after the minting of this coin, we come along a few days before Tisha B’Av and find such a moving testimony to that great destruction,” says archaeologist Esther Rakow-Mellet.
“Our community was uplifted, inspired and reminded of the power of one Jew on a mission,” a rabbi in Saskatchewan told JNS.
The government, which enjoyed a comfortable 67-seat majority, is now reduced to a minority of 50 seats in the 120-seat Knesset.
Leaders praise ultra-Orthodox unit’s role in IDF as coalition faces crisis over draft exemption for yeshiva students.
The landmark ruling stops short of saying that women are entitled to be ordained as rabbis, but is a major step forward in the advancement of female Torah scholars in Israel.
Aryeh Deri, the head of Shas, said that the Haredi parties would try to legislate the draft law from outside the government.