From a rustic, tiny synagogue she fashioned from her family's ancestral home in Serrastretta, Rabbi Barbara Aiello is keeping a promise made to her Italian-born father: To reconnect people in this southern region of Calabria to their Jewish roots, links nearly severed five centuries ago when the Inquisition forced Jews to convert to Christianity.
Some 45% of ultra-Orthodox parents do not have sufficient or suitable tools to guide their children on the subject of abuse and abuse prevention, a survey by the Yedidut Toronto Foundation finds.
The campaign is being orchestrated by “agents of the state” seeking to abolish the 2015 Nationality Law for Portuguese Sephardic Jews, which grants Portuguese citizenship to descendants of Jews expelled from the country in the 15th century, the community said in a statement.
Military Rabbinate researches and preserves over 400 Torah scrolls, some of which are centuries old and many of which came from Jewish communities that no longer exist.
Video message onTwitter shows party leader chatting with German politicians and making the case for the Left, while touring the Holocaust memorial in Berlin.
French President Emmanuel Macron pays homage to thousands of French children sent to death camps 80 years ago in the Vél' d'Hiv roundup.
1984 Hosting Co. claims it doesn’t “host those who advocate violence, terror, suppression or hatred" but declines to address the Jewish community's concerns.
After seeing how COVID lockdowns impacted the elderly, the Foundation for the Welfare of Holocaust Victims decided to teach them how to forge social ties via the internet.
Israel has yet to instate civil marriage over the objections of the ultra-Orthodox establishment, forcing hundreds of couples each year to marry overseas. Shas head: It is inconceivable that fateful rulings that affect Israel's very character will be made by a single district court judge.
"During the pandemic, our community has grown tremendously, and we are now able to provide more services," Rabbi Mendel Lifshitz says.
