According to a report on the Haaretz website on Thursday, Weinstein will not indict Rabbis Yitzchak Shapira and Yosef Yirmiyahu Elitzur who authored the book, nor will indictments be issued against Rabbis Yitzchak Ginsburg and Dov Lior, who gave a haskama ...

On April 2, 1999, I delivered a sermon at my synagogue in Mill Hill, London in which I decried the "fashionable trips to the concentration camps in Poland." It was the festival of Passover and I made the point that we don't put a whole lot of emphasis on ...

A noted Talmudic scholar and Kabbalist who became the chief rabbi of Yekatrinoslav – today, the Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk – Rabbi Levi Yitzchak sparked the ire of Soviet authorities, who in their quest to stamp out Jewish life decreed his exile ...

In this week's uncut, unprecedented, uncensored Shavuot edition of Temple Talk, Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman, together with all of Israel, prepare to receive the Torah anew at Mount Sinai. But our hosts ask: Just what is the Torah we will be receiving?

Stephen S. Wise Temple, 15500 Stephen S. Wise Drive, Los Angeles. (310) 476-8561. wisela.org. Author and educator Rabbi Yitzchak Blau travels from Israel to serve as scholar-in-residence during three days of celebration. Blau discusses “How ...

The reason he could, said Usher, was because people were so attracted to the sweetness, the kindness, the joy that radiated from Rav Nachman Ben Yitzchak Asher — Bryn’s Hebrew name. Rabbi Solomon Schiff, director emeritus of the Greater ...

3. Yitzchak Shamir: Israel’s founding father, Shamir served as Prime Minister of Israel in 1983–84 and 1986–92. Before Israel became a state he served in the heroic underground, and then in the Mossad (Israel secret service).  Shamir is a ...

representing about 8% of Israel's current electricity consumption and 20% of the participating interests in the Yitzchak oil and gas exploration and drilling license in the Mediterranean sea. Information Relating to Forward-Looking Statements ...

The crowd ranged in age from small children to senior citizens. One participant, Yitzchak Weinberger, said that although the speakers focused on the Internet problem rather than solutions, the event was “inspiring.” “This is a beginning ...

4. Avos, 4:6. 5. See Rabbeinu Yonah, Avos, 4:6. 6. These are the blessings that we say once a day before learning Torah. 7. Heard from Rav Moshe Weinberger shlit"a. 8. Heard from my Rebbe, Rav Yitzchak Berkovits shlit"a.