richards | February 8, 2017
Given that its is one if not the most essential Jewish texts, the Talmud can be surprisingly hard to come by. But not anymore: The Jewish start-up Sefaria just released a free digital version into the public domain. The William Davidson Talmud is an edition of the Babylonian Talmud with parallel translations into English and Modern Hebrew
richards | February 8, 2017
A man has been charged with a hate crime after he allegedly broke a window and placed swastikas on the door of a Loop synagogue, police said.
richards | February 8, 2017
Alvin Benn, Special to the Advertiser 3:31 p.m. CT Feb
richards | February 8, 2017
CHICAGO (AP) Chicago police say they have arrested a man suspected of vandalizing a Loop synagogue last weekend.
richards | February 8, 2017
As president of the Chicago Loop Synagogue, Lee Zoldan worries about growing the 800-person congregation and getting the bills in order. She didn't think her role would also include assisting police in the middle of the night after a vandal broke a window and put several swastika stickers on the front door of the downtown building the first time it's been the target of a suspected hate crime since opening in 1959.
richards | February 8, 2017
Rabbi Yosef at Rabbinical Convention Court's Spokesman Israel's Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef related for the first time to attacks aimed at him by womens organizations following the bill of divorce episode involving a woman from Tzfat in northern Israel. In 2014, S. was given a get (halakhic divorce) in a rare and unprecedented move by a religious court in the northern city of Tzfat, seven years after her husband was severely injured in a car accident and left in a vegetative state.
richards | February 8, 2017
Yesh Atid leader MK Yair Lapid announced Wednesday that he has been undertaking efforts to rally former Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon and former Chiefs of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi and Benny Gantz to his partys ranks. Yair Lapid (Photo: Gil Yohanan) Moshe Ya'alon (L), Benny Gantz (C) and Gabi Ashkenazi (R) (Photo: Tomeriko) Finally, Lapid offered his thoughts on comments made by Bayit Yehudi leader Naftali Bennett on Tuesday stating that the next round of fighting with Hamas was close
richards | February 8, 2017
Former chief rabbi Yona Metzger.
richards | February 8, 2017
Read the Winter 2017 B'Yachad Billion Dollar Roadmap Driven by a deep sense of purpose, JNF has undertaken an unprecedented $1 billion campaign over the next decade. Read about the transformative social impact we are having on Israeli society and on American Jews connected to Israel here
richards | February 8, 2017
Black History Month has always proved complicated in multicultural America. The great historian Carter G
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