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Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attends a rally against then-Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana's conversion and kashrut reform plan, Feb. 1, 2022. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.
An untenable religious perspective
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef seems to connect lapses in Torah learning to the deaths of five Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip. But how could anyone know such a thing?
Rav Hayim Leiter
July 10, 2025
Rabbi Mendel Grossbaum helps a man put on tefillin at a rest stop before a rally for Israel, on Nov. 14, 2023. Photo by Faygie Holt.
Good or bad, now or later?
Must we be lily white before we can clean up the world?
Rabbi Yossy Goldman
Jan. 8, 2025
A siyum marking the completion of the Mishnah at Congregation Kadimah-Toras Moshe, a Modern Orthodox synagogue in Brighton, Mass., on Oct. 6, 2024 in memory of the victims a year prior of Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023 terror attack in southern Israel. Photo by Emily Goldberg.
‘We mourn through learning Torah’: Boston Jews unite in study to remember Oct. 7 victims
Bonnie Pomper, whose nephew Hersh Goldberg-Polin was executed by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, told JNS that studying the Mishnah made her appreciate “mundane” prayers she has said by “rote.”
Emily Goldberg
Oct. 7, 2024
Rabbi Hillel Zaltzman. Credit: Chabad.org/Jewish TV.
A book on faith, Judaism and defying Soviet rule
Chabadniks literally risked torture, exile and death to hide other religious Jews on the run and to secretly teach Torah to Jewish youth.
Phyllis Chesler
March 26, 2024
Sephardic Chief Sephardi Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attends a ceremony in memory of his father, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, in Jerusalem, Oct. 22, 2017. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Sephardic chief rabbi: ‘If they try to force haredim to enlist, we’ll go abroad’
"All these secularists do not understand that without the kollels and yeshivot the army would not have been successful," Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef said.
David Isaac
March 10, 2024
Torah Study at the Jerusalem College of Technology Beit Midrash. Credit: JCT.
Continuing the Torah-study journey
There’s a new path for English-speaking students to pursue both academic and Torah study in Israel.
Shlomo Anapolle
Feb. 5, 2024
Buses of Yeshiva University students came from New York City to attend the "March for Israel" rally on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14, 2023. Courtesy: Yeshiva University.
Going to ‘March for Israel’ part of curriculum, senior Yeshiva administrator says
Some 2,500 students, faculty and staff attended the Nov. 14 rally in Washington, D.C.
Elishama Marmon
Nov. 21, 2023
Jewish men carry Torah scrolls as they dance during Simchat Torah celebrations in Kfar Chabad on Sept. 28, 2021. Photo by Yossi Zeliger/Flash90.
The real joy of Simchat Torah
Dancing with the young boy hoisted up high in Vilnius after the war was—perhaps for a community absent of a scroll—the manifestation of the holiday.
Rabbi Morey Schwartz
Oct. 6, 2023
Studying Gemara in the Old City of Jerusalem. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Three-and-a-half-inch Gemara up for auction
Royal Auction House is calling the edition the “world’s smallest ever printed.”
Aug. 23, 2023