With resolution against hiring women rabbis, RCA votes for confrontation
By Uriel Heilman NEW YORK (JTA) – When America’s main modern Orthodox rabbinical association voted last week to ban the hiring of clergywomen by its members, the question…
Israel
Is Palestinian Authority incitement responsible for recent terror wave?
By Ben Sales TEL AVIV (JTA) — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of tampering with the status quo on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. He…
Netanyahu congratulates Canada’s Trudeau amid expected ‘tone change’
TORONTO (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated Canada’s prime minister designate, Justin Trudeau, in a telephone call affirming the friendship between the two…
Netanyahu: Nazis didn’t need mufti to perpetrate Holocaust
(JTA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he did not mean to suggest the Nazi attempt to exterminate Jews depended on the Palestinian mufti…
CIJA mobilizes community to take action against terrorism
by Steve McDonald (Oct. 30, 2015 – At the time of writing, hardly a day goes by without news of another knife, car, firebomb, or…