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I have just had my bat mitzvah… at the age of 33

Sascha Lavin had little Jewish upbringing but became determined to embrace her religious heritage as an adult

By Simon Rocker

4 min read
Reading the Torah: Sascha at her bat mitzvah with LJS's Rabbi Igor Zinkov
Rabbi Joseph Dweck in conversation with Rabbi Shlomo Levin (Photo: Bobby Bray)
Rabbis

I never intended to be a rabbi: How Rabbis Shlomo Levin and Joseph Dweck found their pulpit

By Simon Rocker

4 min read
Zohran Mamdani (centre), the radical Democrat who was elected Mayor of New York earlier this month (photo: Getty Images)
Politics

You can’t always keep politics out of the pulpit

By Simon Rocker

4 min read
Gateshead Yeshivah (Google Street View)
Gateshead

New York rabbi all set to fill the Gateshead void

By Simon Rocker

1 min read
Meet the ‘Zoo Rabbi’ on a mission to explain Judaism through wildlife
Torah

Meet the ‘Zoo Rabbi’ on a mission to explain Judaism through wildlife

By Simon Rocker

6 min read
A police officer on patrol outside a French synagogue after October 7 (Image: Getty)
Rabbis

Over 100 rabbis question EU leaders over ‘future for Jews in Europe’

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read
Wishing you a lifetime of happiness: (from left) rabbis Leah Jordan and Benji Stanley, Jackie and Larry Tabick, Sybil and Jonathan Romain
Rabbis

I’m a rabbi and so is my wife. This is why our marriage works

By Jonathan Romain

4 min read

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Rabbi Hillel Goldberg

By Rabbi Hillel Goldberg

Why I refused to sign the rabbinic letter on Israel’s actions in Gaza

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August 28, 2025 10:16
'I cannot sign this statement because it is deficient in facts, in nuance and in context' (Image: Getty)

Orthodox rabbis issue challenge to Israeli government over Gaza

By Simon Rocker

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August 21, 2025 16:04
Leading call for moral clarity: Rabbi Yosef Blau (photo: David Khabinsky/Yeshiva University)

Masorti rabbi leads open letter accusing Israel of ‘callous indifference to starvation’

By Jane Prinsley

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July 25, 2025 10:52
People make their way along Al-Rashid Street in western Jabalia on July 22, 2025, after receiving humanitarian aid from an aid distribution point in the northern Gaza Strip. (Photo: Getty Images)

French rabbi’s home burned to the ground during Shabbat in ‘arson attack’

By Jamie Shapiro

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July 18, 2025 11:56
Rabbi Yhia Lahiani's home in Grenoble was burned down in a suspected arson attack (Image: X, Torah-Box)
Rabbi Hayim Leiter

By Rabbi Hayim Leiter

The deaths of soldiers are due to the evil of Hamas, not because they didn’t study Torah hard enough

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July 11, 2025 13:27
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef seemed to connect lapses in religious learning to the deaths of five Charedi servicemen (Image: Flash90)

Bosnian minister apologises after gathering of top rabbis turned away over claim it would ‘justify genocide’

By Jacob Jaffa

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June 26, 2025 14:06
Bosnian minister Borjana Krišto has apologised after the Conference of European Rabbis had its conference cancelled following comments from one of her ministerial colleagues (Image: X/@MartaKosEU)

Pioneering New York yeshivah has ordained its 100th Orthodox woman rabbi

By Rabba Dina Brawer

3 min read

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June 17, 2025 13:20
Pioneering New York yeshivah has ordained its 100th Orthodox woman rabbi

NNLS rabbi to take up role at Westminster Synagogue

By Simon Rocker

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June 12, 2025 11:15
Rabbi Zahavit Shalev is leaving New North London Synagogue to take up an interim position at Westminster Synagogue (Photo: Masorti Judaism)

Gathering of top rabbis turned away from Bosnia after minister claimed it would ‘legitimise’ the ‘genocidal’ state of Israel

By Jacob Jaffa

3 min read

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June 11, 2025 16:04
Members of the Conference of European Rabbis at its headquarters in Munich, Germany (Image: CER)
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