Rabbi

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


Ex-Sephardi chief rabbi slams Tel Aviv rabbi as 'heretic' after he calls for haredi IDF enlistment

Rabbi Tamir Granot's son, Capt. Amitay Zvi Granot, was killed shortly after Hamas's October 7 attack in an incident on the Lebanon border while fighting Hezbollah. 

 Shas spiritual leader and former Sephardic chief rabbi, Yitzhak Yosef, seen during a weekly lecture at the Yazdim synagogue in Jerusalem, June 07, 2025; illustrative.

Your Investments: Noah's post-flood decision offers a powerful lesson on retirement - opinion

Your investments: My retirement date, every time you ask me that, I’m going to say five years. I don’t want to retire – Jamie Dimon

 Noah's ark in a stormy sea, lightning strikes, divine light of salvation, the concept of the biblical global flood.

American Jewry's final sermon: Is this the quiet end of normal Jewish life in America? - opinion

In the wake of October 7, as antisemitism resurged from campuses to city halls, Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove’s warning about Zohran Mamdani landed as a mirror of American Jewry’s paralysis. 

 Rabbi Cosgrove

WATCH: Russian drone attack damages Kyiv synagogue, chief rabbi announces

A Russian drone strike hit a synagogue and residential buildings in Kyiv’s Podil district, reportedly wounding four people and causing major roof damage.

Chief Rabbi Moshe Azman outside Podil synagogue in Kyiv after a Russian drone damaged the building, October 22, 2025.

'Yes! I am Jewish’: How a Jewish Korean princess was ordained as a rabbi - review

In her book Heart of a Stranger, Buchdahl tells the story of her life. She ends each chapter with a homily applying a sacred text to contemporary faith, values, and behavior.

ANGELA BUCHDAHL in 2013. She was ordained as a cantor in 1999 at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion before going on to become a rabbi.

In fond memory of Rabbi David Ebner: My sharp, sensitive, story-telling rebbe - opinion

When he led us in prayer, we felt the heavens open. Amid the awe, he would sweep us up in joyous dance, drawing his students into the profound intensity of his prayers.

RABBI DR. DAVID EBNER: His approach set a yeshiva-wide tone of intellectual rigor combined with warmth, kindness, and compassion.

When the time comes - short story

A short story based on Rabbi Akiva’s final days.

An AI-generated image of Rabbi Akiva.

Lessons from Rabbi Adler: Be your father’s son - opinion

Even observant Jews are unfamiliar with the intricacies of Jewish laws and customs surrounding death and mourning.

THE WRITER on his wedding day, with his father.

Chief rabbis call for public vaccination following four measles deaths

In a public letter, the rabbis argued that "you shall take great care of yourselves" is not just a verse from the Torah, but a halachic and moral obligation. 

A notice warning of a “Measles” is seen on a door in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, July 31, 2025.

We can feel brokenhearted for the suffering of the children of Israel and Gaza - opinion

Some of you only fault Israel for this situation, and some of you only blame Hamas. But one thing is clear — it isn’t the children of Gaza’s fault.

Rabbi Angela Buchdahl speaks during her sermon on the first day of Rosh Hashanah, Sept. 23, 2025.