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A group of Jewish and Muslim funeral groups got a chance Thursday to express their concerns over the upcoming transformation of the system that registers New York City birth and…
A suggestion by a regional political in Austria that kosher and halal meat be restricted to those who prove they observe religious laws caused an uproar among Jewish groups and…
Three volunteers from Shomrim NW London were presented Thursday with a letter from Barnet Borough Commander, Det. Chief Superintendent Simon Rose in recognition for their brave actions in assisting police…
In what is feared will set a precedent for many chareidi mosdos in the United Kingdom, a closure order received by Getters Talmud Torah in Stamford Hill will go into…
Nearly 10 months after the New York City Department of Health had to retract its newly released life-events registration program because of widespread system failures, an interfaith coalition is lobbying…
The German government has agreed to pay nearly $88 million more than in previous years to fund social services for Holocaust survivors worldwide. The amount was agreed upon following a…
The man who allegedly killed Sarah Halimi, Hy”d, will not stand trial should a French court decide to accept the findings of a new psychiatric test which says that he…
While in Helsinki, Finland, to cover the historic summit between President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin for Hamodia, I took the opportunity of visiting the synagogue and discovering a…
Prices for flights to Uman, Ukraine, before Rosh Hashanah are expected to drop this year as a result of an agreement reached by the Civil Aviation Authority with the Ukrainian…
Klal Yisrael mourned the petirah of the renowned Mekubal and Posek, Hagaon Harav Sroya Deblitzky, zt”l. Rav Deblitzky, who was a mechaber of many sefarim on Kabbalah, was niftar on…
A letter sent Wednesday by two leading American askanim to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and MK Yuval Steinitz pleaded with the two officials to “maintain the kedushat haKotel as it…
Amid what seems to many as the imminent demise of the 3G network that services most “kosher” cellular phones, stakeholders in the unique industry of providing “safe” technological options for…
Advocates for religious liberty welcomed the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace the retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court, saying that his record gives observers reason to…
Max (Mordechai) Fuchs, a G.I. and cantor who led a tefillah service in Germany during World War II that was broadcast nationally in the U.S., was niftar July 3. He…
Amid continuing threats to one of Jewry’s sacred sites, the Snipisek Jewish Cemetery in Vilnius (Vilna), three U.S. senators have sent a letter to Lithuania’s president, protesting plans to build…
The Gerrer community mourned the petirah of one of the foremost and venerated Chassidim ,Harav Yehudah Aryeh Alter, z”l a great-grandson of the Imrei Emes, zy”a, and brother-in-law of the Pnei…
Rabbi Shmuel Chmelnitzki, an elder Gerrer Chassid, who served on the nesius of Ichud Mosdos Ger, was niftar early Thursday morning in Los Angeles. Reb Shmuel was born in 1932 in…
Representatives of the British chareidi kehillah are set to meet with Ofsted, the regulatory body for schools, later in the month. The meeting follows months of distress and uncertainty within the…
