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yeshiva
Yeshiva U search committee to propose ex-NYC pulpit rabbi as president
Rabbi Ari Berman has emerged as the search committee’s top candidate to be the next president of Yeshiva University, a source familiar with the process told JTA.\n\n
Terror in Jerusalem: The merry-go-round
It was in the middle of Sukkot, that loveliest of holidays in Israel, set aside for family time, when even the most devout and serious yeshiva men can be seen with their entire families visiting the zoo or traipsing through nature trails in Galilee.
Now is the time to support Ultra-Orthodox core-curriculum yeshiva education
Israel’s new political reality won’t help the next generation of Haredi young people—in fact, on the contrary, it will perpetuate a broken system.
Israel says Hamas militants behind abduction of three teens
Israel said on Sunday that Hamas militants had abducted three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank, warning of \”serious consequences\” as it pressed on with a search and detained dozens of Palestinians.
Yeshiva students missing, suspected kidnapped by terrorists [VIDEO]
Israeli forces are searching for three Jewish teenagers who went missing in the West Bank late on Thursday, the military said on Friday.
Yeshiva student admits to writing anti-Semitic graffiti
A Long Island yeshiva student was charged with repeatedly scrawling anti-Semitic graffiti inside a commuter train station.
Rabbis urge Congress to back Obama on Syria
Leading rabbis covering the religious and political spectrum urged lawmakers in Congress to support President Obama’s plans to strike Syria to stop its use of chemical weapons.
Orthodoxy and ethics
One of the most prominent Orthodox rabbis of our time, Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, chief rabbi of Efrat, related the following story in the July 12-18 issue of the International Jerusalem Post: