Rabbi and community activist Barry Silver passed away on Thursday after battling a long illness, according to Congregation L’Dor Va-Dor, where he was Rabbi and Spiritual Leader. He was 67.

(JTA) — Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, the powerful leader of Israel’s haredi Orthodox community who was known as the “Prince of Torah,” has died. Kanievsky was 94 and died after collapsing at his ...

(Foto AP/Oded Balilty) Hundreds of thousands of Jews crowded the streets of the Israeli city of Bnei Brak on Sunday to attend the funeral of Chaim Kanievsky, an important rabbi who died on Friday ...