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Bismuth presents bill exempting yeshiva students from IDF draft, loosening sanctions
28 Nov 2025 01:18 GMT
… exemptions to full-time yeshiva students while ostensibly increasing … Shas and United Torah Judaism parties back into the … when the United Torah Judaism party’s Degel HaTorah … bill.
Finance Minister and Religious Zionism leader Bezalel Smotrich leads …
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Hundreds of Jewish teens to rally in Budapest in Europe’s largest youth gathering
27 Nov 2025 15:54 GMT
… by EMIH (the Hungarian Jewish Association) together with CTeen … young European Jews. Some attendees are the only Jewish pupils in … representatives of their local Jewish communities.
The goal is … Shluchim, two schools, a yeshiva, and a university.
Hungary …
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As a Queer Orthodox Jew, I Know All Too Well That ‘There’s No Place Like Home’
27 Nov 2025 04:23 GMT
… of our radically inclusive Jewish community. Reader donations help … My family.
I attended Yeshiva University for 12 years in … sings.
Many queer Jews do leave Orthodox Judaism. Sometimes walking away … but hopeful that their religion will fulfill the promise …
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Zohran Mamdani’s handling of protest outside synagogue further worries NYC Jewish leaders
26 Nov 2025 11:00 GMT
… future state.
Rabbi Ari Berman, the president of Yeshiva University, said … positions on Israel and Jews
Many Jews in New York were … to allow both freedom of religion and the right to … existing Jewish fears, and shouting death threats outside a synagogue does …
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How Seth Rudetsky became Broadway’s loudest Jewish voice after October 7
26 Nov 2025 05:39 GMT
… American Jewish childhoods, was more cultural than strictly religious.
Raised … Jewish day camp; later, he spent two years in yeshiva. … raise money for the synagogue, honoring gay Jewish composers. He invited … it happened “because of Judaism.”
That’s also why …
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Berlin art exhibit in former Nazi bunker explores Jewish experience after October 7
25 Nov 2025 03:45 GMT
… /Good Jews” are quirky, unusual, and deeply Jewish. The name of … “The Legend of the Wandering Jew,” with mouse faces on his … Germany.
He studied in a yeshiva after being beaten up by … Judaism.
Artist Yury Kharchenko, who put together the ‘Bad / Good Jews …
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Rabbi Shlomo Porter, Builder of Etz Chaim, Dies at 78
25 Nov 2025 03:04 GMT
… Philadelphia. Known not as a synagogue but as a place for … the Beis Medrash L’Torah yeshiva in Skokie, Illinois. He … generation that helped establish kiruv — Jewish outreach to the unaffiliated — … he helped them reconnect with Judaism after years away. Many …
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Over Half Of Non-Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi Students Think They’re Gay, Study Shows
24 Nov 2025 18:38 GMT
… Shlissel, an ultra-Orthodox Jew who killed a teenager and … of involvement with the Jewish faith as children. Approximately … Founder of the queer yeshiva SVARA, Rabbi Benay Lappe, called the … “toolkit that catalyzed rabbinic Judaism itself.” “When people who …
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‘My yeshiva friends don’t know I enlisted’
23 Nov 2025 20:28 GMT
… oath because observant Jews avoid taking oaths outside religious contexts, was … graduate of a prominent Jerusalem yeshiva, described the emotion he … My friends in the yeshiva don’t know I enlisted … studied in a Beit Shemesh yeshiva, also enlisted despite taking …
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Why a Jewish Light writer is finally giving cholent another chance
23 Nov 2025 19:52 GMT
… showed up later for other Jewish foods too: gefilte fish … Ephraim Abrams, Maurie Axelbaum, Rabbi Josh Bregman, Sara Fink, … entrants joining the competition.
“Yeshivat Kadimah High School has … affair,” said Oppenheimer.
Rabbi Josh Bregman is the …