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Eikev: The Benefit of Holy Encounters

This week's Torah portion presents the only two blessings that are Biblical commandments.

Tisha B’Av ‘a call to look inward,’ rabbis say

The fast day, considered the saddest day on the Jewish calendar, is an opportunity for “all people of moral conscience to work together to bring goodness…

Avigdor Liberman joins supporters as haredi protesters target Jerusalem café for fifth week

Customers shouted “Enlist, enlist” as haredi protesters demonstrated outside the Jerusalem café for a fifth consecutive Saturday.

'Nazis, get out of here': Haredi protesters assault Border Police officers, soldiers in Jerusalem

According to Ynet, the two incidents come on the tail end of a haredi car procession and march from Beit Shemesh to Kikar Hashabbat in Jerusalem,…

Man indicted for aggravated murder of Kabbalist Rabbi Amos Guetta, calls him 'false messiah'

Friedrich was also charged with causing grievous bodily harm under aggravated circumstances and unlawfully possessing a knife.

Rabbi urges Jewish future for Hitler bunker site

Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt is urging German authorities to transfer the site to the city's Jewish community, calling it a moral response to one of the last…

Three weeks of tragedy and seven weeks of consolation

The purpose of the Three Weeks is to awaken the yearning for Redemption - and the seven haftorah's following Tisha B'Av are intended to strenghthen that…

Knesset gives final approval to repeal Kashrut reform

The Knesset plenum passed in its second and third readings the repeal of statutory provisions that had allowed private corporations and kosher certification bodies to provide…

‘Stop destroying Jerusalem’: Haredim target cafe open on Shabbat for 3rd week in a row

Police erect barriers to prevent friction outside city center's Cafe Basimta, a recently opened business that has drawn the ire of ultra-Orthodox demonstrators

Moses reviews the Torah

HaRav Tzvi Yehuda would ask his gathered students in the large Beit Midrash of the yeshiva: “What is the very first thing Moshe teaches the Nation,…

Why Gadi Eisenkot is rejecting the haredi political embrace that once helped Netanyahu win

POLITICAL AFFAIRS: Yitzhak Yosef’s embrace – and Eisenkot's effort to distance himself from it – reflects Israel's shifting political landscape.

Shabbat candle lighting times for Israel and US