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...But Israel Cohen, a Haredi broadcaster and commentator, said Israelis failed to understand how fraught the draft issue is for Haredi rabbis desperate to shield their young men from the temptations of secular...
...But when the chief Sephardic rabbi addressed the faithful earlier this month, he touched off a political firestorm....
...The exemption for religious students dates back to a compromise between Israel’s founder, David Ben-Gurion, and rabbis representing a few hundred ultraorthodox families in 1948....
...Although Russia has taken up the Palestinian cause in Hamas’s conflict with Israel, for groups such as Isis-K, “their grievances with Russia and with Putin are more long-standing”, said Hanna Notte, director...
...Mentioned in this podcast: How Ukraine war distracted Moscow from Isis-K threat Infrastructure: from investment backwater to a $1tn asset class Israel cancels Washington visit after UN resolution demands...
...“This might have given a signal to interested parties that ‘hunting season’ has started,” Rabbi Goldschmidt said....
...In Sarcelles, a northern suburb of Paris with a large Jewish community, rabbi René Taieb said many Jewish parents had kept their children away from school on Friday, in response to a big increase in antisemitic...
...“The situation is very difficult in Dagestan, the community is very afraid,” Rabbi Ovadya Isakov was cited as saying in an interview with Podyom, a small Russian online media outlet....
...Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to leaders of local authorities in Israel’s southern region on Monday, including the rabbi of Sderot municipality, where some of the fiercest fighting has taken place between Israeli...
...When Israel is involved, things change. The late Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks put it this way. “In the Middle Ages, Jews were persecuted because of their religion....
...Hank Sheinkopf, a Democratic strategist — and ordained rabbi — agreed....
...This was the tradition Susan Neiman imbibed as a child in 1960s Georgia. She attended an Atlanta synagogue whose rabbi supported Martin Luther King....
...are also focused on the Israel-Hamas war....
...It’s the first time since 2016 that the US has allowed a resolution criticising Israel to pass. And it led the Israeli government to cancel an upcoming trip to Washington....
...At the Western Wall in the old city of Jerusalem this week, several dozen prayed with David Lau, Chief Rabbi of Israel....
...Ackman had arranged the screening with Harvard Chabad, an outreach organisation led by Hasidic Jews, where he was given a glowing introduction by Chabad rabbi Hirschy Zarchi....
...Rothschild was also active in Israel, serving as chair of Yad Hanadiv, the family’s Israel-based philanthropic foundation, from 1989 to 2018....
...He presented Zelenskyy with a menorah when receiving him at the presidential palace and it later emerged that his rabbi, Axel Wahnish, would become ambassador to Israel with a brief to move the Argentine...
...The update from the Israel Defense Forces came hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected calls for a ceasefire and said it was “a time for war”. Here’s the latest on the Israel-Hamas war....
...In Israel, meanwhile, which has become a hub for cultivated meat start-ups, the country’s Ashkenazi chief Rabbi David Lau in January said that Aleph Farms’ lab-grown steak was kosher....
...knots of utility lines in Palestinian neighbourhoods to the strategic web of fences, walls, roads and checkpoints that slice and dice the territory captured from Jordan in the war of 1967 and occupied by Israel...
...“We had a chance to unify the party behind closed doors, but the Swamp and K Street lobbyists prevented that,” Boebert posted on X, formerly known as Twitter....
...Menachem Ben Shachar, a rabbi at the yeshiva, said the original decision to dismantle the settlement and three others, alongside Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005, had been a capitulation to...
...Jonathan Wittenberg, senior rabbi of Masorti Judaism in the UK, who attended Friday’s protest, said it was vital to defend Judaism against a “nationalist, literalist narrowing down”....
...Minds immediately leapt to the oil price, and to memories of the 1973 Yom Kippur war, another surprise attack on Israel....
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