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AIMING FOR the strengthening of Israeli unity, people gather with Israeli flags at one of some 100 locations around the country, in Hispin, Golan Heights, in August.

Embracing one another and exploring big questions: The Masorti Movement's mission

By RABBI JACOB BLUMENTHAL

Head Rabbi of Ponevezh Yeshiva (Ponevitch) Rabbi Asher Deutsch.

Rabbi Asher Deutsch, leader of Peleg Yerushalmi, dies at 79

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Teen depression

Rabbis must stop defending child molesters, instead of those sexually abused - opinion

By RABBI ZVI GLUCK

A PROTESTER waves a Palestinian flag during a rally at Columbia University in New York, in November.

Charges dismissed against NY rabbi accused of hitting Columbia protesters with his car

By Luke Tress/JTA

Rabbi Mendy Kotlarsky, director of the International Conference of Shluchim and Keren Hashluchim.

Chabad announces building of 100 new centers in response to Rabbi Zvi Kogan killing

By HANNAH SARISOHN

Andorra la Vella in the Arms of Pyrenees, Capital city of Principality of Andorra, 2022.

Andorra, where non-Catholic houses of worship are illegal, gets its first full-time rabbi

By PHILISSA CRAMER/JTA

Rabbi Soudakoff, the first deaf rabbi in Israel, addresses the closing ceremony of the International Conference of Shluchimclosing ceremony of the International Conference of Shluchim (Chabad).

First deaf Israeli rabbi signs his feelings of inclusion at international Chabad conference

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Jared Kushner and his wife Ivanka look on as Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump addresses supporters at his rally, at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., November 6, 2024.

Kushner, Ivanka Trump mourn murdered Rabbi, donate $1M to UAE Jewish community

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

The three alleged perpetrators of the murder of Chabad emissary to the UAE Rabbi Zvi Kogan, Olimpi Tohirovic, Makhmudjon Abdul Rahim, and Azizi Kamilovic.

UAE says suspects arrested in killing of Israeli rabbi are from Uzbekistan

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A HIGHLIGHT of the CTeen convention in New York is the ‘havdalah’ service in Times Square, where thousands of CTeen participants from around the world converge

Influencing the influencers

By ALAN ROSENBAUM

RABBI FAIVISH VOGEL presents a menorah to British prime minister Margaret Thatcher at her office at 10 Downing Street, London, in 1989.

Rabbi Faivish Vogel: A tribute to a beloved Chabad rabbi

By HADASSAH CHEN

An illustrative image of two chairs.

A meeting of minds and hearts: What lessons righteous figures learn from each other

By LEVI COOPER

Likud leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu with Head of the Otzma Yehudit party MK Itamar Ben Gvir at a vote in the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on December 28, 2022.

Controversial 'Rabbis Law' returns to Knesset plenum

By ELIAV BREUER

Jewish people gather at Rodeph Shalom synagogue for a service marking Erev Rosh Hashanah in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, September 6, 2021.

Meet the suburban Philly rabbis providing Election Day pastoral care for anxious congregants

By HANNAH SARISOHN

Rabbi Kalman Bar

Rabbi Kalman Bar appointed new Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi

By ELIAV BREUER , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Jews mark the end of the annual cycle of the reading of the Torah and the beginning of the next cycle, on Simchat Torah, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

Rabbis discuss Simchat Torah and unity in polarized, post-Oct. 7 Jewish society

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A Montgomery County Sheriff's Office vehicle blocks off a street where a car fire had occurred in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Police arrest Maryland man for stabbing rabbi with wooden stake in antisemitic attack

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

RABBIS AMIRIT ROSEN and David Goodman of Kehilat Moreshet Avraham in Jerusalem’s East Talpiot neighborhood

How has the role of rabbis in Israel changed since October 7?

By CORINNE BAUM