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Over 500 rabbis sign letter rejecting Trump’s antisemitism agenda

The letter was organized by two progressive Jewish groups — the Israel lobby J Street and rabbinic group T’ruah.

By GRACE GILSON/JTA
28/04/2025

Tomb of renowned Jewish mystic desecrated in Damascus, Rabbis call for action

Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic Countries urges Syria to protect Jewish heritage sites, calls on Syrian President to act.

'Rabbinic Scholarship': How the Talmud Yerushalmi was made

This book is a deeply scholarly and ambitious work that sheds new light on the Talmud Yerushalmi and its place within the intellectual world of late antiquity.

By RABBI REUVEN CHAIM KLEIN
22/04/2025

Holy Miles: The journeys of traveling Rabbis

The Jerusalem Post Podcast - Travel Edition, Episode 105.

  Rabbi Meir Mazuz.

Rabbi Meir Mazuz, renowned Torah scholar and spiritual leader, passes away at 80

Rabbi Meir Mazuz, leader of Kisse Rahamim Yeshiva and a key figure in Israeli politics, has passed away at 80, leaving a lasting impact on Torah study and the Jewish community.

Fake rabbi sentenced to 135 years for sexually abusing adoptive sons

Hayim Nissim Cohen, a former TikTok rabbi, was sentenced for the sexual assault of his adoptive sons, ending his deceptive career.

By GRACE GILSON/JTA
10/04/2025

Fake rabbi appointed head of Colombia Religious Affairs bought title online

Rabbi Dr. Richard Gamboa Ben-Eleazar regularly takes to social media to denounce Zionist Jews as "Nazis" and "false Jews."

123 orphan boys celebrate their Bar Mitzvah at the Western Wall

The war has left hundreds of Israeli families bereaved, and thousands of children facing life without their fathers. This year’s Colel Chabad Bar Mitzvah carried extra weight for boys who lost it all

Iran paid $200,000 for failed assassination of Azerbaijani rabbi

IRGC officials met with known drug trafficker Agil Aslanov last fall, the Washington Post reported on Saturday. The officials gave Aslanov a photo of the rabbi and instructions on the killing.

Rabbi Eliyahu Fink, compassionate voice in the Orthodox world, dies in road accident at 43

The former Venice Beach rabbi was remembered as "kind, brave, decent, and good"—a pioneer whose early advocacy fostered today's more inclusive communities.

By JACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA
25/03/2025
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