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If guys are not wearing yarmulkes, how does the rabbi know if a student is Jewish? “I say ‘Excuse me, sir. Are you Jewish?’” ...
Rabbi Chaim Bruk is Spiritual Leader and co-CEO of Chabad Lubavitch of Montana. He can be reached at: [email protected].
Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein is a freelance researcher and scholar living in Beitar Illit. He has authored multiple books and essays, including “Lashon HaKodesh: History, Holiness, & Hebrew” and ...
Rabbi Chaim Dalfin is a respected chasidic historian, mashpia and author of many books including The Real Shlomo, Satmar and Lubavitch, Rabbi Hutner and Rebbe and Lakewood and Lubavitch.
By Margaret Lyons The French dramedy “Reformed,” on Max (in French, with subtitles, or dubbed), follows a young rabbi who moves back home to begin her career. Léa (Elsa Guedj) is smart ...
Reformed, a French comedy that just arrived on Max, is ostensibly about a female rabbi, struggling for acceptance; it follows Léa, a character based on Delphine Horvilleur, France’s most famous ...
A few months ago, signs were plastered across haredi neighborhoods in Jerusalem—including one directly in front of my apartment building—declaring that “Anyone who enlists (in the IDF), will ...
Rick Jacobs is a rabbi and the president of the Union for Reform Judaism, the largest denomination of Judaism in North America. Among the terrible lessons of Oct. 7, 2023, was that it became ...
David Spinrad was officially installed as the sixth senior rabbi of Beth El Hebrew Congregation at the Oct. 5 Shabbat service. In the 159 years since Beth El Hebrew Congregation was formed in 1859 ...