Jewish Religion

By TOI staff Rabbi Yisrael Rosen, a pioneer in Jewish religious law and technology and the founder of the Chief Rabbinate’s office for conversion, died Thursday at the age of 76. He is survived by his wife Shlomit, five children and many grandchildren. Rosen was born in Tel Aviv in 1941. He studied in the […]

MK Yoav Ben Tzur (Shas) told Arutz Sheva on Thursday that his party would work to enact a law that would ban supermarkets in Israel from being open on Shabbat, in response to a Supreme Court ruling approving the opening of supermarkets in Tel Aviv on Shabbat. The ruling, which was the final ruling handed

Egypt”s Ministry of Antiquities reaffirmed on Monday that the Egyptian government has allocated EGP 100 million (more than $5 million) toward the restoration of the ancient synagogue in Alexandria. Yasmin El-Shazly, the General Supervisor of the Department of International Organizations for Cultural and the International Cooperation, also denied reports that the Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue has

Inspectors from the Tel Aviv municipality ordered a Chabad rabbi to cease laying tefillin (phylacteries) on passersby and threatened to levy a fine if he would not consent. For many years, Chabad men have set up stands all over Israel, as well as in many other countries, offering to help Jewish men put on tefillin.