Rav Yaakov Yoffen sent his two sons, Rav Aharon Yoffen and Rav Mordechai (Motty) Yoffen to learn at Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin, the American yeshiva in Brooklyn, New York headed by the famous Rav ...
ISTANBUL — Turkey’s Jewish community is mourning after Isak Haleva, chief rabbi since 2002, died at 84 on Tuesday. Haleva was the 35th person to hold the title of Hahambaşi, by which the ...
Isak Haleva, the chief rabbi of the Jewish community in Türkiye, passed away at the age of 85, the community announced on Jan. 14. Haleva had served as chief rabbi since 2002, following the death of ...
On the night of Sept. 14, he recruited his 74-year-old father Peter, a retired rabbi who is in poor health, to accompany him to the site of the mural. They brought an ax, a sledgehammer and a pry ...
After President-elect Donald Trump delivers his inaugural address Monday, the next speaker Americans will hear will be a Bergen County rabbi. Ari Berman, a Teaneck resident and president of ...
Isak Haleva, Turkey's chief rabbi since 2002 who bridged traditional Sephardic Judaism with modern Turkish life while leading his community through decades of political change, has died at 84.
(photo credit: Ricardo Perna. Via Shutterstock) Rome's chief Jewish rabbi on Thursday sharply criticized Pope Francis over the pontiff's recent ramping up of criticism against Israel's military ...
This institution of Yad Vashem, which is more necessary than ever, is now going to have a rightful place on the streets of New York,” Keith Powers, a New York ...
It hasn’t quite gone to plan for Rabbi Matondo at Rangers ever since a money-spinning move from Schalke 04 in Germany. Signed under the management of Giovanni van Bronckhorst in 2022, there were high ...
Whereas many Jews left by 1655, many others stayed and braced for life under the Inquisition’s yoke. At first, those who remained continued to practice Judaism ... said Haim Amsalem, an Orthodox rabbi ...