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Top ultra-Orthodox rabbis eulogize 14-year old Yosef Eisenthal, the ultra-Orthodox boy who was fatally run over by a bus driver during an anti-conscription demonstration in Jerusalem last night, at ...

Rapper Kanye West — who released a song praising Adolf Hitler earlier this year — made a groveling apology to a New York City rabbi and said he is taking “accountability” for his bizarre antisemitic ...

The chairman of the Religious Zionist Party, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, responded this evening to former Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef’s attack on Rabbi Tamir Granot, whose son was killed in ...

Mulatu Astatke is an innovative multi-talented musician, composer, arranger and the founder of Ethio Jazz. Born in Jimma, Ethiopia, Mulatu Astatke studied at Lindisfarne College and Trinity College of ...

After the latest hostage deal was reached, Yosef-Haim Ohana, one of the former hostages released on Monday, spent several days in a pit underground with another six captives, unable to sit or lie down ...

In Israel, there was joy in Tel Aviv's Hostage Square at news that Hamas had released all 20 living Israeli hostages. Yosef-Chaim Ohana, 25, was one of those released. Ohana was kidnapped from the ...

At the closing ceremony of the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions in Kazakhstan, the Rishon LeZion, Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi David Yosef, declared: "Stop terrorism; peace is ...

Ricky Martin and Jwan Yosef are livin’ la vida papá. Two years after the couple announced their divorce, Jwan gave a rare look at how he and the two-time Grammy winner come together to parent their ...

Rabbi Yosef Blau urges moral clarity in Israel’s response to Gaza, advocating for responsibility in addressing hunger and violence, despite critics within Orthodox circles. For 48 years, until he ...

I would not normally respond to Rabbi Yosef Blau. Yet because of his past importance and influence, I feel a duty to do so — especially now, in Elul, as we prepare to stand before the Almighty in ...

The remains of Captain (res.) Yosef Haim Ashraf, 28, were found on Thursday night in the Swiss forest near Tiberias, the Tiberias Municipality said on Friday. It is suspected that he ended his own ...