For many Holocaust survivors, May 18, 1945 was the first Shavuot they were able to celebrate after years of war.

A few days ago, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau spoke via Zoom with students of the ORT Maalot Yeshiva. He was asked to convey a message to bar mitzvah boys who had to give up the big celebration because ...

Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau is one of the more prominent consensus figures in Israel. A Holocaust survivor who lost nearly his entire family, the rabbi rose from the horrors of the Buchenwald death ...

Yisrael Meir Lau is the Chairman of Yad Vashem and Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv. He previously served as the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel. At age 9, Rabbi Lau was the youngest person liberated from ...

Yad Vashem Council Chairman Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau participated in the European Jewish Association's (EJA) special conference on anti-Semitism, telling Arutz Sheva that the persecution of Jews has ...

Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, chief rabbi of Tel Aviv, attends a ceremony for a new Torah scroll brought to the synagogue of the Knesset on June 9, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) ...

Yisrael Meir Lau, in open letter to Obama, urges clemency for imprisoned spy on humanitarian grounds By Gabe Fisher 24 February 2013, 1:27 pm Edit Facebook Twitter email Print Rabbi Meir Lau ...

But Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, former chief Rabbi of Israel, disagrees. Rabbi Lau was an eight-year-old Shoah survivor when he reached Israel just three months after WWII ended. Seventy-two years ...

Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau. Former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau — today, the Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv — revealed in his message this year that he ...

Lau-Lavie is a scion of 38 consecutive generations of rabbis dating back a millennium. His uncle Yisrael Meir Lau and cousin ...