From a young age, Rabbi Meir displayed exceptional scholarship while learning at Chabad’s Yeshiva Ohel Yosef Yitzchak, founded by the Rebbe’s shluchim. At just 17, he began teaching as a maggid shiur ...

Despite his great admiration for Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Rabbi Mazuz opposed the agreements out of inner integrity. At the time he told me: 'I cannot say things that would hurt Rabbi Ovadia ...

"He tried to bring the church closer with the Jewish people, and he was always a friend, was always open to Jewish people and leaders that had questions or requests," said Rabbi Yosef Kleiner.

The funeral of Rabbi Meir Mazuz, head of the Kisei Rahamim Yeshiva and leader of the Sephardi-haredi community, who passed away on the seventh day of Passover at age 80, will be held in Bnei Brak ...

A Reform rabbi and an Orthodox rabbi were my mentors, my guides and my inspirations to become a rabbi. Rabbi Joseph Weizenbaum, z’l, the Reform rabbi of my youth, my bat mitzvah, and my teenage ...

Rabbi Meir Mazuz, a prominent ultra-Orthodox Sephardic religious leader known for his inflammatory homophobic comments, died in Bnei Brak on Saturday. He was 80 years old. Mazuz reportedly spent ...

A prominent New Orleans rabbi, widely regarded for his human rights advocacy work and interfaith ties, is leaving the city this week after nearly 40 years of community service. Rabbi Edward ...

What keeps the Jewish people going? Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, the charismatic and eloquent Brooklyn-born educator who became a moderate voice of Modern Orthodoxy in Israel, provides an inspirational answer ...

PASSOVER IS A JEWISH HOLIDAY REPRESENTING FREEDOM, OPPORTUNITY AND RENEWAL. THE RABBI HERE AT TEMPLE SINAI, THOUGH, SAYS THIS PASSOVER HAS BEEN PARTICULARLY DIFFICULT. -- HAVE FELT MORE PUSHED ...

The atmosphere brought extra chayus, with shiurim by Rabbi Michoel Seligson on “Pesach by the Rebbe” and Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Holtzman on the complex halachot of Sefirat HaOmer. Bochurim received $10 ...