Size matters: How a ‘largest menorah’ tiff landed two rabbis in Jewish court
By Ben Sales NEW YORK (JTA) — Each year in Brooklyn, Chabad Rabbi Shimon Hecht ascends 33 and a half feet to light the tallest…
Religion
Europe’s Jews prepare public Hanukkah events to ‘drive out darkness’
By Cnaan Liphshiz AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Before the attack on a Christmas market in Berlin on December 19, 2016, Rabbi Yehudah Teichtal had planned to…
Rabbi expelled from Conservative body for performing intermarriages
by Ben Sales NEW YORK (JTA) – Conservative Rabbi Seymour Rosenbloom has been expelled from the Rabbinical Assembly, the movement’s rabbis’ association, for performing interfaith…
RCA renews call for respectful treatment of converts within Orthodox Jewish community
(Dec. 12, 2016) – The Rabbinical Council of America, the leading organization of Orthodox rabbis in North America, today released a resolution, passed by direct…
Edmonton Multi-Faith Society calls for an end to hate literature and vandalism
(Dec. 2016) – The Edmonton Phoenix Multi-Faith Society for Harmony has membership comprising of the Muslim, Jewish and Christian faiths. They issued the following statement in…