Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie navigates his life as a spiritual leader with his drag persona as Rebbetzin Hadassah Gross.

Ahead of “Rescue and Liberation Day,” the Jewish philanthropist and initiator of the day, Mr. Gabriel German Zakharyaev, ...

Among the more famous was his father’s brother, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, who served as chief Ashkenazic rabbi of Israel from 1993 to 2003. Lau-Lavie’s grandfather, Rabbi Moshe Chaim Lau ...

Lau’s father, Naphtali Lau-Lavie, and his uncle, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, survived the Holocaust and were in Buchenwald when American troops liberated the camp. In the documentary he says his ...

Also present at the center's opening were Isaac Herzog, president of Israel, and his wife, Michal Herzog, plus Yad Vashem council chair and Holocaust survivor Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau. Sgt.

The little boy Naphtali saved grew up to be Yisrael Meir Lau, former Chief Rabbi of Israel and a worldwide religious leader. The two children were the only surviving members of their family.

Israel's former Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau shakes hands with Holocaust survivor Felix Goldschmied at the Launceston Synagogue in Launceston, Australia, July 12, 2023. Photo by Mishka ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (JTA) — Tasmania, Australia’s smallest state in both population and size, is home to about half a million people. It is best known for its rugged terrain, its breathtaking ...

On Wednesday morning, Israel’s former chief Ashkenazi rabbi, Yisrael Meir Lau, paid a rare visit to the Launceston Synagogue. The event attracted around 50 people, including government ministers ...

Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau tells about a speech he heard as a 10-year-old child, in a displaced children’s center in Ecoius, France. A group of local politicians came to visit the center ...

Former Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Israel Yisrael Meir Lau once accused Lustiger of betraying the Jewish people by his conversion, and when he was given an award for advancing Jewish/Catholic ...