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NNLS members approve choice of new rabbi

Rabbi Danny Nevins from New York won 93.5 per cent of congregational vote

By JC Reporter

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NNLS members approve choice of new rabbi

Reading the Torah: Sascha at her bat mitzvah with LJS's Rabbi Igor Zinkov

Progressive Judaism

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

By Simon Rocker

4 min read

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

New York rabbi all set to fill the Gateshead void

By Simon Rocker

1 min read

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)

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

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

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

Jonathan Romain, one half of Britain’s first rabbinic couple, talks to ministers who have followed in his footsteps

By Jonathan Romain

4 min read

September 17, 2025 11:07

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

By Rabbi Hillel Goldberg

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

Amid an existential war for Israel and the Jewish people, it is not enough to ‘make a statement’

2 min read

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

British-linked religious figures join call for ‘moral clarity’ and criticism of Jewish extremism on West Bank

By Simon Rocker

2 min read

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’

More than 400 rabbis sign letter urging Israeli government to allow ‘international’ aid into Gaza, halt settler violence and pursue peace

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

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’

The rabbi's daughter has claimed that police suggested they are treating the blaze as deliberate but that ‘no one wants to call it antisemitic’

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

July 18, 2025 11:56

Rabbi Yhia Lahiani's home in Grenoble was burned down in a suspected arson attack (Image: X, Torah-Box)

By Rabbi Hayim Leiter

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

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef seemed to connect lapses in religious learning to the deaths of five Charedi servicemen, but how could anyone know such a thing?

3 min read

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’

Borjana Krišto said she ‘regretted’ that the conference had been cancelled following comments from one of her ministerial colleagues

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

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

It might have once seemed mission impossible – but Orthodox women rabbis are making their mark on Jewish life

By Rabba Dina Brawer

3 min read

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

Rabbi Zahavit Shalev will become interim rabbi at the independent Progressive synagogue as Rabbi Benji Stanley leaves to study in Israel

By Simon Rocker

2 min read

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)

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NNLS members approve choice of new rabbi

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

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

You can’t always keep politics out of the pulpit

New York rabbi all set to fill the Gateshead void

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

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

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