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Police arrest suspect in Netanya rabbi's murder as at least three killings recorded in one day

Police suspect the alleged stabber came to the yeshiva to pray with the rabbi. At the time, several former criminals who had returned to religious observance were also sitting around the rabbi.

RABBI AMOS GUETTA, murdered on July 1, 2026.
An ultra-Orthodox jew prays at the Westen Wall July 17, 2002 on Tisha B'Av

The breached walls we must rebuild this Seventeenth of Tamuz - opinion

Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a Primary Night watch party for NYC Congressional Candidate Claire Valdez at 99 Scott Studio on June 23, 2026.

Hundreds of US rabbis sign letter urging Mamdani to apologize for calling AIPAC ‘monsters’

An illustrative image of a man in handcuffs, being arrested.

Israeli woman sues New Jersey rabbi for sexual assault, defamation


'The True Power of Speech': Speaking improperly has cosmic consequences - review

It is a book about what happens in the spiritual world when we cross the boundaries of proper speech into the realm of lashon hara.

THE CHOFETZ CHAIM, Yisrael Meir Kagan, arrives with a group at the first Congress of Agudat Yisrael in Vienna in 1923.

Kazakhstan chief rabbi: Country joining Abraham Accords due to its 'peace and tolerance'

While Israel and Kazakhstan have had diplomatic relations since 1992, Rabbi Yeshaya Cohen said that deepening the relationship could only be good.

Kazakhstan Chief Rabbi Yeshaya Cohen.

This reform rabbi is one of 456 competitors on season 2 of Netflix’s ‘Squid Game’

Meet Rabbi Jamie Field, one of 456 competitors on the new season of Squid Game. She sees "so much Torah" in the show's intense moments, making connections with an Anglican priest and others.

Rabbi Jamie Field poses as a contestant for "Squid Game: The Challenge" on Netflix.

Polish president, EJA warn of rising antisemitism as Europe marks Kristallnacht

“Today you can go to any Jew and scream 'genocide',” said Rabbi Menachem Margolin. EJA's symposium united state reps, Rabbis, and activists to push back against the new blood libels.

Rawan Osman

A second rabbinic letter, arguing against Jewish rejections of Mamdani, enters the NYC mayor’s race

“Even though there are areas where we may disagree, we affirm that only genuine solidarity and relationship-building can create lasting security," the letter says.

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) react on stage during a "New York is Not For Sale" rally at Forest Hills Stadium, in the Queens borough of New York City, U.S., October 26, 2025

Rabbi Alvin Kass, longest-serving NYPD chaplain famed for 9/11 response, dies at 89

Kass, the longest-serving NYPD chaplain, famously disarmed a hostage-taker with pastrami sandwiches from the Carnegie Deli. His career with the NYPD spanned 60 years.

New York City Police Department Chaplain Rabbi Alvin Kass seen giving the invocation at the State of the City Address at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Symphony Space in New York City, Jan. 10, 2019.

Police arrest, interrogate rabbi, add'l suspect for inciting violence in West Bank

The rabbi, who remained anonymous, was accused of inciting violence during the riots at the West Bank village of Burkin, which was home to the terrorist who killed Tzeela Gez and her son.

A Palestinian man looks at Israeli flags placed over a demolished Palestinian house in Bruqin, in the West Bank, May 23, 2025

Father of slain IDF soldier Rabbi Doron Perez to be new World Zionist Organization chair

Perez is set to become the World Zionist Organization chair as part of a power-sharing rotation between World Mizrachi and Yesh Atid, which will take charge in the second half of the term.

Rabbi Doron Perez, 55, embraces his daughter Shira Perez, in their home in Yad Binyamin, Israel October 19, 2023.

Israel's most visible rabbinic defenders are not recognized as rabbis by the Jewish state - opinion

The two most visible Jewish defenders of Israel in the world’s largest Jewish city are rabbis whom Israel’s own religious establishment does not recognize as rabbis.

RABBI ANGELA BUCHDAHL speaks at a Hanukkah reception with then-US president Joe Biden at the White House in 2023. The future of the Jewish people will depend on who shows up and speaks when Israel and its people need to be defended, the writer asserts.

The great silence: How the American rabbinate lost its nerve - opinion

The next generation of Jewish leaders must rediscover that bite because soft sermons and viral hashtags will not save the future of American Jewry. It will be saved by courage.

A mayoral candidate forum hosted by B’nai Jeshurun, Congregation Beth Elohim, Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan, and New York Jewish Agenda on June 8.