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Gavel and handcuffs on a leather surface.

Fake rabbi sentenced to 135 years for sexually abusing adoptive sons

By Grace Gilson/JTA

Certificate of ordination of "Rabbi" Richard Gamboa Ben-Eleazar

Fake rabbi appointed head of Colombia Religious Affairs bought title online

By MICHAEL STARR

The Annual Colel Chabad Bar Mitzvah commemoration for orphan boys

123 orphan boys celebrate their Bar Mitzvah at the Western Wall

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting at the IRGC Aerospace Force achievements exhibition in Tehran, Iran November 19, 2023.

Iran paid $200,000 for failed assassination of Azerbaijani rabbi

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Rabbi Eliyahu Fink, who died March 21 in a car accident.

Rabbi Eliyahu Fink, compassionate voice in the Orthodox world, dies in road accident at 43

By Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA

A member of the Jewish community prays at a synagogue in Orleans, central France, on March 23, 2025, the day after an attack to the rabbi of Orleans, for which a minor has been arrested

Man who viciously attacked Orleans rabbi arrested, victim tells 'Post'

By MICHAEL STARR

Rabbi Arié Engelberg.

French rabbi assaulted, bitten in front of son on way back from synagogue

By Mathilda Heller

Yitzhak Kesselman

Chabad rabbi becomes most senior haredi engineer at Microsoft

By Mathilda Heller

‘THE OLD PLANTATION,’ watercolor attributed to John Rose, possibly painted between 1785 and 1795 in the Beaufort District of South Carolina.

'Fear No Pharaoh': US Jews and slavery – from implicated to appalled

By GLENN C. ALTSCHULER

An illustration of a cardboard box with 'this end up' and two arrows pointing downwards.

When the world turns upside down, rabbis can help us keep our heads on straight

By RABBI SHIRA KOCH EPSTEIN/JTA

The group around the table in the Weisbergs’ Kiryat Moshe home. At head, Chef Josh and wife, Chana Jenny; ‘In Jerusalem’ Editor Erica Schachne is 2nd R in back row.

Around the weekday Shabbat table with Rabbi Josh Weisberg

By ERICA SCHACHNE , MARION FISCHEL

MK Gilad Kariv attends a National Security committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament on October 15, 2024.

Aliyah committee will be ‘home’ for non-Orthodox Jewish denominations, Kariv says

By ELIAV BREUER

Former chief rabbi Yona Metzger

Former chief rabbi Metzger released on bail after alleged indecent act against minor

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Documentation: European Rabbinical court members meet with leading Torah authorities

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By David Berger

Nechama Goldman-Barash.

Nechama Goldman-Barash: A guiding light for women's voices in Halacha

‘HERZL UNDERSTOOD the value of a great photo’: Theodor Herzl in Basel, 1897.

This week in Jewish history: Herzl writes Der Judenstaat, Byzantines betray the Jews

By Steven Drucker

fallen soldier

Writing from the fire: War is not a theory you can debate from afar

By Jacob Schimmel

Turkey's Chief Rabbi Ishak Haleva in 2009.

Iranian, Israeli rabbis mourn late Turkish chief rabbi Isak Haleva

By MICHAEL STARR