Jewish Religion

Last week, reports surfaced that prominent haredi rabbi Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky ruled that traveling on Shabbat was permitted according to Jewish law for residents seeking to flee Hurricane Irma. The report was based on a video in which the rabbi says that the storm is dangerous and that Jews living there should leave. “The storm

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish Israeli lawmaker quit his seat on Wednesday under fire from religious colleagues and rabbis for attending a gay relative’s wedding, his daughter said. Yigal Guetta recently told a radio interviewer about the marriage of his nephew, which took place two years ago but still brought a harsh reaction from prominent rabbis, local

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–In view of recent decisions by Israel’s Supreme Court, citizens may have a point when they ask, “Who’s really running the country, the Knesset or the Supreme Court?” Two Court decisions published earlier this week come especially to mind: the Supreme Court’s opinion that (1) the government has no right to

A few hours after a Chabad man in Herzliya was fined 730 shekels for helping passersby put on tefillin, a Sderot resident received a fine for activating “Shabbat sirens” near the city’s “Ha’ari Hakadosh” synagogue. “Shabbat sirens” are either music or an actual siren, sounded twenty minutes and five minutes before the start of Shabbat

Haredi soldiers from the Netzach Yehuda Battalion, better known as the Nahal Haredi, were fed non-kosher food during an army education program last week, Radio Kol Hai reported. According to the report, a group of soldiers from the battalion were sent to participate in an educational program with the IDF”s Education and Youth Corps in