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Celebrating the 61st Annual Meetings of the Board of Trustees   (Bar-Ilan University)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Jun 2016
... heritage among American Jewry; Rabbi Shlomo Dichovsky in recognition of his creative halachic solutions for Agunot (chained women); and the Bnei Akiva Youth Movement for educating Jewish youth with values of Torah and Avodah and strengthening Jewish identity ... Rabbi Haskel Lookstein on Nitzchunei Banai - My Children Have Prevailed Over Me (June 8)....

In Donald Trump’s Old Neighborhood, a Show of Support

Edit Voa News 04 Jun 2016
On a recent evening about 15 miles outside of Manhattan, approximately 50 people gathered in the borough of Queens to voice support for a fellow Queens native who also happened to be running for president – Donald Trump ... Queens Village, founded in 1875m is one of America’s oldest Republican clubs ... Israel support Also in attendance was Rabbi Menashe Bovit, who cited Trump’s support of Israel as a major reason for backing the candidate ... ....

This Day in History

Edit Jamaica Observer 04 Jun 2016
<p;>. TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT. 2011. Physician-assisted suicide advocate Dr Jack Kevorkian dies at a Michigan hospital at 83. OTHER EVENTS. 1808. Confederate President Jefferson Davis is born in Christian County, Kentucky. 1888 ... 1916 ... 1924. Author Franz Kafka, 40, dies near Vienna. 1937 ... Sally J Priesand is ordained as America’s first female rabbi at the Hebrew Union College — Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio ... ....

Oklahoma religion briefs

Edit The Oklahoman 04 Jun 2016
Church plans interfaith series. In an effort to understand the prayer traditions of Islam, Christianity and Judaism, local religious leaders will share their views of prayer in a series of messages beginning Sunday at Restoration Church at the Dome, 3700 N Walker ... Sunday. The Rev ... June 12. Rabbi Vered Harris, spiritual leader of Temple B'nai Israel, will be guest speaker at 10.30 a.m. June 19 ... For more information, call Malget at 525-6551....

Richar Abril returns from absence to out-point Jerry Belmontes

Edit WBN 04 Jun 2016
Returning for the first time since September 2014, former WBA lightweight champion Richar Abril, 139, of St. Petersburg, FL, engaged former world title challenger Jerry Belmontes, 138¾, of Corpus Christi, TX, in a 10-round tactical battle ... Brooklyn's former junior middleweight world champion and now ordained Orthodox rabbi Yuri Foreman continued his comeback with an impressive stoppage victory over Jason Davis, of Vancouver, WA ... ....

Moscow Chief Rabbi Frets Over Ukraine Honor for Anti-Semites

Edit Topix 03 Jun 2016
Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, who is also the president of the European Conference of Rabbis, spoke of his "concern" over the trend in an interview Tuesday with JTA during a gathering of the standing committee of the Conference in Vienna ... ....

Ultra-orthodox Israeli rabbi bans girls over five from riding bikes because it is 'provocative'

Edit The Independent 03 Jun 2016
The rabbi of the Jerusalem neighbourhood of Nahloat distributed the stringent decree to his followers in synagogues across the area ... As a rabbi, I am worried about the ......

JCRC Community Celebration for Executive Director Rabbi Doug Kahn’s Retirement (JCRC - Jewish Community Relations Council)

Edit Public Technologies 03 Jun 2016
(Source. JCRC - Jewish Community Relations Council) 4b4b4ec8-a8e6-4e4e-9a37-862f5ca5b13f.pdf. For Immediate Release Contact. Jeremy Russell. June 3, 2016 Communications Manager. 415/977-7417. jrussell@jcrc.org. JCRC Community Celebration for Executive Director Rabbi Doug Kahn's Retirement. San Francisco, CA - Rabbi Doug Kahn is retiring this month after 34 years with the San Francisco- based Jewish Community Relations Council ... ### ... (noodl....

Man who firebombed rabbi's house tops Week in Crime

Edit NJ dot com 03 Jun 2016
An Ocean County couple allegedly broke into home and sold stolen items on Craigslist. A North Jersey man who firebombed a rabbi's home was convicted of terrorism. A South Jersey man is headed to prison for falsely accusing police of sexually assaulting him ... A 24-year-old man was found guilty of terrorism in the firebombing of a rabbi's home and for a string of vandalism incidents at Jewish temples in 2011 and 2012....

Returning to the Kotel

Edit Topix 03 Jun 2016
Rabbi David Cohen and Rav Tzvi Yehudah Kook at the Kotel, shortly after its liberation in 1967. On the left in uniform, Rabbi Israel Ariel During the annual memorial for Israel's first Chief Rabbi and the founder of Religious Zionism, Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Hacohen Kook on the third of Elul, Rabbi Tzvi Yehudah, his son, surprised the people gathered at Beit HaRav Kook with an unusual statement ... ....

Rav Kook on Jewish Politics

Edit Indonesia News 03 Jun 2016
Rabbi Zvi Yehudah Kook declared that "The State of Israel is divine." The son of the great Religious Zionist thinker and activist Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, Zvi Yehudah lived to see the birth ... ....

US Jewish groups warn of ‘rupture’ if Western Wall deal collapses

Edit Deseret News 03 Jun 2016
“There is a deep concern, bordering on disbelief, that this deal may not be implemented,” Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the U.S.-based Union for Reform Judaism, told The Associated Press after an emergency meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday (June 1) ... Rabbi Gilad Kariv, president of the Reform movement in Israel, expects an update from the prime minister within “a few weeks.”....

Conservative rabbis adopt resolution backing transgender rights

Edit The Jerusalem Post 03 Jun 2016
The resolution passed last week expresses “the full welcome, acceptance, and inclusion of people of all gender identities in Jewish life and general society.” ... ....
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