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On the the 21st of Shevat, 8 th February 2026, an online presentation featuring international speakers is to be launched. It will mark the 5 th yahrzeit of the late Rabbi Dr Abraham Yehoshua Heschel ...

When Kendrick Lamar released To Pimp a Butterfly in the spring of that same year, its shelf life wasn’t contingent upon its ability to penetrate a constantly shifting algorithm. “Alright” emerged as ...

Audio of Ehud Barak discussing the proposal as a strategy to engineer demographic change in Israel has sparked a backlash. When newly released audio recordings revealed former Israeli Prime Minister ...

Retired Rabbi Joseph S. Weizenbaum - an outspoken religious leader who was known for his work in social justice - died Monday in hospice after a long illness. He was 80. Weizenbaum retired in 2002 as ...

TAUNTON — Rabbi Josh Schreiber's views and approaches to talking about current affairs in Jewish culture don’t just come from a place of faith, but also love for the land where he grew up and the ...

JTA — When newly released audio recordings revealed former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak discussing mass conversion and selective immigration with Jeffrey Epstein, disgraced financier and the ...

As police in NY investigate the man who drove a sedan repeatedly into the entrance of the Chabad Lubavitch world headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn on Jan. 28 in what NYC Comptroller Mark ...

Rabbi Elyakim Schlesinger, one of the senior yeshiva heads in the Haredi world and Rosh Yeshivas HaRama in London, passed away early this morning. Rabbi Schlesinger merited an exceptionally long life ...

WASHINGTON — More than 150 rabbis and cantors protested outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, Feb. 11, in what organizers said was the largest ...

A suspension preventing a longtime Tucson rabbi from doing rabbinic work has been lifted. In September, Rabbi Samuel Cohon, the former senior rabbi at Temple Emanu-El, was forced to step down after ...

During the 1960s several U.S. soldiers defected to North Korea. James Dresnok became the last U.S. defector to remain in North Korea up until his death in 2016, well over 50 years after his defection.