Israeli Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger was being questioned on suspicion that he took hundreds of thousands of shekels meant for nongovernmental organizations. (JTA) — Israeli Ashkenazi ...

After receiving a police complaint, officers opened an investigation earlier today into former Ashkenazi chief rabbi Yona Metzger on suspicion he molested a 16-year-old boy. Metzger was called in ...

Screening March 16 at the Boca International Jewish Film Festival, 'Guns & Moses' targets all-too-real themes for US Jews while keeping audiences on the edge of their seats ...

Rabbi David Leybel has already registered significant achievements in integrating Haredim into the workforce. Now he's ...

The rabbinical committee headed by Rabbi Yaakov Ariel will meet as planned this coming Sunday to select the Religious Zionism candidate for the position of Ashkenazi chief rabbi. The committee ...

Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi David Lau appeared to endorse the idea of rebuilding the temple at the hotly contested site and said that there is enough room there for “Jews, Christians, Muslims ...

The new findings contradict previous assertions that Ashkenazi mitochondrial lineages originated in the Near East, or from mass conversions to Judaism in the Khazar kingdom, an empire in the north ...

The Chief Rabbis of Israel and the Rabbi of the Western Wall and Holy Sites have demanded a fallen stone from the Western Wall be returned to its sacred resting place. The Rishon LeZion and Chief ...

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