After 11 Year Vacancy, New Chief Rabbis of Jerusalem...
Rabbis Aryeh Stern and Shlomo Amar were voted Jerusalem’s new chief rabbis of on Tuesday evening, after 11 years in which the posts stood vacant. The 48 electors who cast their...
Large protests expected at Met ‘Klinghoffer’ opening
Large crowds are expected to gather outside the Metropolitan Opera in New York Monday night, where a controversial opera about a Palestinian terror attack to set to open. Demonstrators, primarily associated...
‘Rickshaw’ Sukkah Makes the Rounds in New York
The holiday of Sukkot commands Jews to live in “booths” — commemorating the temporary dwellings their ancestors inhabited while wandering the desert for 40 years. Though many Manhattan apartments measure only...
New Information Revealed About Ultra-Orthodox Plane Scandal
Last Saturday night, after three days of being off-line due to Rosh Hashana and Shabbos, I powered up my iPhone, and the emails started flooding in. Apparently during the holiday a...
Is Keeping Kosher Cool?
A pair of mainstream media pieces this week report on the growing percentage of “Millennial Jews” who are keeping kosher. NPR’s Morning Edition‘s report spoke to a 21-year-old woman who grew...
Sin Got Your Goat?
According to tradition, on the day of Yom Kippur the Kohen Gadol transfers the sins of the Jewish people on to a goat that was then sent off into the wilderness...
Watch and Read PM Netanyahu’s UN Address
At the UN General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu defended Israel’s military actions against Hamas over the summer, and explained how ISIS and Hamas are two of a kind. Watch...
Are You Mossad Material?
Is there a Jewish James Bond among us? The Mossad seems to think so. Israel’s super-secretive intelligence agency recently launched an online recruitment campaign, complete with promotional video and application. Watch...
Abductors of Three Israeli Teens Killed in Hebron
The IDF reported that an overnight operation in Hebron to apprehend the terrorists responsible for the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens this summer has resulted in the death of...
Tennis Anyone? (Just Not on Shabbat)
As the New York Post reports, a group of Orthodox Jewish men on Long Island “served” a lawsuit to the Unites States Tennis Association, for refusing to reschedule a tournament that...
