In harsh letter to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Rabbi David Lau takes a stance against the government's proposed conversion reforms in general and the decision to dismiss head of the Conversion Authority in the PMO Rabbi Moshe Weller in particular.
Aliyah surges by 30% this year as 27,050 immigrants make the Jewish state their new home.
Leaflets were distributed in at least eight states as part of a "coordinated flier drop," by the antisemitic Goyim Defense League.
"The ECAJ 2021 Antisemitism Report" records 272 attacks − physical assaults, verbal harassment, vandalism and graffiti − and 175 threats in the year ending in September, up from 331 in the previous 12 months.
Roman Abramovich's case was based on a Portuguese law offering naturalization to descendents of Sephardic Jews who were expelled from the Iberian peninsula during the medieval Inquisition.
Rabbanit Shira Marili-Mirvis from Efrat and Rabbanit Dasi Fruchter from Philadelphia are two of few women who serve as their community's top spiritual leaders.
Two-day online event celebrates 30 years of official diplomatic relations between Israel and Ukraine and is expected to reach half a million viewers worldwide.
The majority of materials were taken in July 1942 from Thessaloniki, which once had a thriving Jewish community.
Some 5,100 Chabad activists in 106 countries worked hard to bring the light of Hanukkah to their corner of the globe.
"We recognize the significance of this being the last Saturday of Hanukkah and we are reaching out to Jewish leaders in our community to let them know we will not stand for such hateful and abhorrent behavior in our city," Boise Police Department Chief Ryan Lee tweets.
