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Israel needs to stop being a haven for sex criminals - editorial

What happened with Leifer needs to be a lesson for the Israeli government that sex offenders are not wanted in the country.

 Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked at The Jerusalem Post's London conference on March 31, 2022.
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Rabbi Elchanan Poupko's letter to a fallen classmate

A haredi Orthodox man waits to be vaccinated against the COVID-19 coronavirus in Bnei Brak, a haredi city in Israel, Dec. 21, 2020.

Orthodox Jewish groups endorse coronavirus vaccine, rabbis follow suit

An Orthodox Jewish man wears a mask while talking on a cellphone in the Orthodox Jewish community of the Borough Park neighborhood during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID19) in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., April 30, 2020.

Orthodox Union, US Rabbinic Council advise use of coronavirus vaccine


Chief Rabbinate must disclose communications with RCA over testimonials

Controversy has long surrounded the way the Chief Rabbinate decides which Orthodox rabbis abroad it recognizes to give such testimony and it has still never provided clear criteria for this process.

 Special Rabbinical Court convenes on Sunday

Spots on the clothing, specks on the soul

Rosh Hashana, the Day of Judgment, is time to talk about rabbinic ethics.

A RABBI speaks to his congregation.

Trump continues tradition of High Holy Days call with Jewish leaders

Trump initially stated that “many sides” were to blame for the violence and intimidation that resulted from the white-power protest Charlottesville.

HAREDI TRUMP supporters in Jerusalem.

Supreme Rabbinical Court judges cast doubt on Lookstein conversions

Peretz said Lookstein was not on the list of US rabbis approved by the chief rabbinate as able to convert, while the chief rabbinate itself said that he was.

Rabbi Haskel Lookstein

Denominationalism is okay, suppressing it is not

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Orthodox women rabbis – who cares?

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Orthodox women rabbis – who cares?

Those who stay within the system, fighting against the scare tactics of groups like the RCA, deserve our respect and require our support, our lobbying and, yes, our social media outrage

Orthodox Jews walk along Whitehall in central London

Why the RCA resolution against hiring women rabbis matters to me and should matter to you

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CENTER FIELD: Intermarrying rabbis: A US Jewish trainwreck?

Today, even the engaged intermarry. Many campus Jews who attend Shabbat services or defend Israel nevertheless date non-Jews.

A Jewish wedding.

Chief Rabbinate accused of ‘outrageous inefficiency'

A source in the Chief Rabbinate explained that “a severe shortage in manpower” was responsible for the inefficiency.

The rabbis of the Council of the Chief Rabbinate

Intellectual Judaism saved Jews – Intellectual rabbis saved Judaism

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