Tagged Jewish law

Emma Fitzsimmons at Western Wall.v1

NY Times reporter blasted for complaining about separation of sexes at Western Wall

Avishag Shiran Malka

‘I’m very proud to serve,’ says Israel’s first ultra-Orthodox female Border Police fighter

Amnon Goldis' wine store

Ramat Gan wine shop owner battles city over rainbow flags

police chaplain mendy kalmanson

JUDAISM 101: Why is This US police force getting lesson in Shabbat observance?

erasing women

WATCH: Israeli pharmacy erases women’s photos on products, caving to extremists

electricity

‘Kosher electricity’ pilot program: Liberman slams religious Jews, claims ‘working Israelis’ will foot the bill

Returning to the Mount head Rafael Morris

Jews offered 20,000 shekels for Passover sacrifice, Western Wall rabbi and Ben-Gvir say no

breads

‘Unnecessary’ law banning unleavened bread on Passover passes first reading, Supreme Court blamed

divorce

Orthodox woman who married Muslim man ‘by mistake’ obtains divorce – or was he actually Jewish?

Israeli passport

Religious parties demand major change to law defining ‘who is a Jew’ that can immigrate to Israel

religious boys school

Transgender boy must be placed in girls’ class, rabbis urge, rejecting ‘artificial changes’

IDF opens additional combat positions to women but will any qualify?

cheeseburger

Rabbis approve lab-grown meat for cheeseburgers

Produce smuggling

Israeli inspectors thwart smuggling from PA

Alta Fixler

WATCH: Rabbi discusses ‘wrong’ UK ruling to end life of 2-year-old Israeli girl

Impossible pork

Simulated pork rejected by Jews – what’s the problem?

Alta Fixsler

Israeli toddler dies after UK court rules against parents’ wishes

Pope Francis

Pope Francis is wrong: The laws of the Torah do give life, says leading rabbi

Alta Fixsler

European Court rules hospital can disconnect Jewish toddler from life-support machine

divorce

‘Israel will not be a haven for divorce deniers,’ says religious affairs minister

Agunah get

After 16 years, Jewish woman ‘trapped’ in marriage freed in precedent-setting international court battle

Leah and Uriel wedding

In Israel, two victims, refused divorce for years, find love and happiness

Covid 19 vaccine

Leading Israeli rabbi: Jewish law trusts vaccines

Flag grave

Israeli army’s new burial policy flies in face of Jewish law, former IDF chief rabbi warns

Adin Steinsaltz

Alan Dershowitz: The Rabbi Steinsaltz I knew

abused women

WATCH: ‘Chained women’ in Israel fight for freedom from abusive marriages

Fighting for shechita in Belgium

Belgian law bans kosher slaughter, rabbis promise to fight

of Jerusalem Rabbi Aryeh Stern

Jerusalem Chief Rabbi: Help free Palestinians jailed for selling land to Jews

apples and honey

Rosh Hashana Omens