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The well-worn black pants belonging to Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, known among his followers as “minister of the Torah,” were set to go up for auction March 1 — with a breathtaking opening bid of ...
Editor’s Note: This is the first installment of a three-part series discussing and dealing with the problem. Having grown up Modern Orthodox, I attended a yeshiva day school, Camps Raleigh and ...
One resident of Har Nof, who identified only as Zik, explained that since the death in March of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, the most powerful rabbi in the non-Hasidic Haredi community, “people feel ...
Attendees of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky's funeral heard long eulogies loudly bewailing the loss of a spiritual leader known to millions of religious Jews worldwide simply as “Reb Chaim.” Ultra ...
Ill-suited to a political mantle, the rabbi had encyclopedic knowledge, shed new light on Jewish law in his 50+ books, and was simply in love with Torah ...
March 20 (UPI) --Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky was laid to rest in Israel on Sunday as mourners burst through the gates of the cemetery during the burial ceremony.An estimated 750,000 people attended the ...
JERUSALEM (AP) - Hundreds of thousands of people attended the funeral Sunday of a prominent ultra-Orthodox rabbi in a city in central Israel. Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, 94, one of the most influential ...
World Huge crowd due for Israel rabbi funeral under heavy guard. Hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews were expected at the funeral Sunday of influential rabbi Chaim Kanievsky.
Prominent Israeli ultra-Orthodox rabbi, Chaim Kanievsky, died Friday at 94. He was determined dead after being treated by emergency medical services at his home in Bnei Brak.