(JTA) — A pair of pants coming up for auction are being described as “holy” — and not just because they’re a little torn. Rather, the pants once belonged to the late Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, an Israeli ...

Rav Kanievsky holding Shlomo Alexander Klein at his bris. As I watch my adorable little great-grandson Shlomo at play, my mind takes me back three years to when he was born. Actually it goes back ...

They are two Jews with extraordinary stories, and on one Sunday they jointly captured the attention of Israelis. Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelensky is the president of Ukraine. Shmaryahu Yosef Chaim ...

JERUSALEM — Hundreds of thousands of people attended the funeral Sunday of a prominent Orthodox rabbi, Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, in a city in central Israel. Rabbi Kanievsky, one of the most influential ...

The second day of Sukkos is the yahrzeit of Rav Moshe Zacut (Ramaz) (1625-1697). Born in Amsterdam to a family of conversos who had subsequently managed to escape Portugal he studied in Beit Midrash ...

JERUSALEM — An influential ultra-Orthodox Israeli rabbi ordered his followers this week to burn their iPhones, the latest move in a campaign by the insular community to encourage its members to keep ...

There’s a pivotal scene in the biblical story of Passover in which Moses encounters the presence of god who then speaks to him from within a burning bush. This year, observant Jews have license to ...

Shimon HaTzadik (the Righteous) was a high priest during the Second Temple period. He would say, “On three things the world stands: On the Torah, on prayer, and on acts of kindness.” Later ...