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In June 2023, when Rabbi David Leybel gave a speech suggesting that ultra-Orthodox parents should be able to choose the educational framework for their children, mentioning both Haredi state ...

When Eliya Cohen was released from Hamas captivity late last month, he met with Rabbi Elhanan Danino, the father of murdered hostage Ori Danino, to tell him about his conversations with Ori in the ...

Anti-Israel demonstrators accused of having deafened a Washington, D.C. rabbi as he was trying to pray for Israel’s hostages outside its U.S. embassy have been ordered to pay his $182,000 legal ...

Emirati authorities decided on a punishment for the “premeditated murder with terrorist intention” of Rabbi Zvi Kogan but offered no details about the crime. By Ismaeel Naar Reporting from ...

Three people convicted in the November killing of Rabbi Zvi Kogan in the United Arab Emirates have been sentenced to death, according to UAE state media. Kogan, 28, a Moldovan-Israeli citizen, was ...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor ...

Azerbaijan should join the Abraham Accords to serve as a model of coexistence and lead other Muslim-majority states to join the treaty, Azerbaijan Sephardi Chief Rabbi Zamir Isayev told The ...

A court in the United Arab Emirates has sentenced three people to death for the killing of Israeli-Moldovan Zvi Kogan, state media reported Monday. The state-run WAM news agency announced the ...

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the Israeli sage who founded the Sephardic Orthodox Shas political party and exercised major influence on Jewish law, has died. Yosef died Monday at Hadassah Ein ...

[Lithuanian Judaism leader] Rav Elazar Shach supported territorial concessions for peace, and Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the leader ...

The 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Rowan Williams, addressed the “resurgence of antisemitic rhetoric” that came after the “butchery” of the October 7 massacre during a lecture in ...