Jewish Religion and Thought
A class-action lawsuit seeks compensation for each of the 180 religious passengers aboard flight diverted to Athens to avoid desecrating Shabbat • Religious passengers also want El Al to publicly retract claims that they were violent towards the crew.
While the decision to land caused some further confusion and consternation about how Shabbat would be kept in Athens on about an hour’s notice, the story at that point began to turn from worry and concern to relief and calm.
News outlets accused religious passengers of violent behavior on a delayed El Al flight from New York to Israel last weekend, but Israel Hayom‘s Yehuda Shlezinger was on board and presents eyewitness details that paint a different picture.
Like the notable (and sometimes notorious) mayors before him, 62-year-old Moshe Lion will start the complicated business of putting policies and promises into action.
Tipat Halav centers will be open every day until late for the next two weeks to attempt to ward off the illness, which is described as extremely contagious and particularly dangerous to small children, pregnant women, the old and the infirm.
“His greatness was that he would defer to sages and great religious leaders. In all the battles fought by the Chief Rabbinate, he was always on our side like a protective wall,” said Chief Sephardi Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef.
The goal of Tzohar Organization of Rabbis is not to replace, but to rework. “No one likes competition. But there is a great buzz now, and they are shaking. As a result, they understand that they must make changes, and this was our goal,” says co-founder Rabbi Rafi Feuerstein.
Court rejects appeal by Chabbad-Lubavitch emissary Asher Krichevsky against his deportation, finds him guilty of “engaging in activities that constitute threat to Russian Federation, its citizens.”
As holiest day of the Jewish calendar begins on Tuesday night, Israeli life grounds to a halt.
A scroll named for the late Martin Steininger has been loaned for use to a rabbi and military chaplain who directs the Jewish Uniformed Service Association of Maryland (JUSA), affiliated with Chabad of Maryland.
More than 50 religious soldiers were sworn in as paratroopers at a ceremony at the Western Wall, the largest-ever recruitment in a special company.
A speech by Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in 2013 was the “most offensive statement by a senior British politician since Enoch Powell’s 1968 ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech,” said former Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom Jonathan Sacks.
