Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting,and the plague was checked.-Numbers 17:15 The Holy One drops the mic againThis time on rebels who were consumedin an instant. A rapid plague takes them all outeven more rapid than the rapid testsof our day. We’re reminded again to knowwhat’s what and not…
A petition signed by thousands of members of the strictly-Orthodox community has been handed to the Department for Education, opposing sections of the new Schools Bill designed to make religious institutions accountable. Rabbi Elyokim Schlesinger signed the cover letter for the petition sent to the Secretary of State for Education, Nadhim Zahawi. Levi Weiss of…
I have a deep fear of bridges. More accurately, I’m scared of bridges that stand looming over large pools of water or busy highways. And in order to not extend my anxiety to the driver while I noisily breathe in and out, I request they drive as close to the middle barrier as possible (away…
In 2021, NBC aired an episode of the TV show “Nurses,” portraying a Hasidic Jewish patient who refuses to get a bone graft because he is afraid of where it will come from. The patient and his father don’t want it to come from a “goyim,” an Arab or a woman. The scene – which…
Jews who live in North Beverly Hills soon will be able to dip in a mikvah (ritual bath) that has the “feel of a Ritz Carlton spa,” said Rabbi Pini Dunner, the spiritual leader of Young Israel of North Beverly Hills (YINBH), where the new mikvah and kelim mikvah are located. While long needed in…
For many young Israelis, a trip to Poland to visit the Auschwitz concentration camp is an experience that shapes their adult lives and puts their very existence in context. Miriam Cohen could not go. She felt left out, and wanted to do something about it. “I’m a Jewish, very Orthodox person, and in the religious…
A disgraced rabbi who had been awarded Israel’s highest national honor shortly before being accused of sexual abuse and rape, including of children, has died. Yehuda Meshi-Zahav died at 62 on Wednesday in Jerusalem, where he had been hospitalised for more than a year since attempting suicide amid mounting allegations against him. Meshi-Zahav was the…
For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its produce. But in the seventh year, the land shall have a complete rest, a Sabbath to the Lord.” – Leviticus, chapter 25:3. For many American Jews, the concept of a shemittah (or Sabbatical) year…
Vladimir Zelenko, the doctor from an Orthodox enclave near New York City who rose to fame early in the COVID-19 pandemic for promoting an untested drug cocktail, has died of cancer at 48. The foundation that Zelenko launched to advance his theories after he left his family medical practice amid controversy in May 2020 announced…
London-born Keren Hajioff has been named as international spokesperson to new Prime Minister Yair Lapid. She is part of a team that includes former UJS campaigns director Yair Zivan, a trusted advisor to the one-time broadcaster since 2014. He will continue to serve as diplomatic advisor. Hajioff – who made Aliyah in 2009 and rose…
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