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Chief Rabbi Metzger: Another Term? Not Relevant… Yet

Israel’s Chief Rabbi, Yona Metzger, is reaching the end of his term in office in the upcoming months, and according to him the possibility of going for a second term is out of the question, or is it?As the government is poised to vote in favor of what some are calling the Amar Law, which allows head rabbis to contend ...

Chief Rabbi Lobbies Israel MKs to Reject New Marriage Law

Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger on Thursday contacted all 120 MKs and urged them to reject a Knesset bill that would grant couples the freedom to choose the rabbinate office where they marry.Acknowledging that it was unusual for a chief rabbi to intervene in a political issue, Metzger wrote a letter outlining the negative consequences of the so-called “Tzohar bill,” ...

Chief Rabbi escapes tragic flight

When Chief Rabbi of Poland Michael Schudrich received word on Saturday night that Polish President Lech Kaczynski hadbeen killed in a plane crash, along with 95 other members of the country’s elite, he knew that not only had a “great friendof Israel and the Jewish people” perished, but that his own life had been spared.Read More: @ jpost.comTags: Chief Rabbi, Rabbi, tragic flight

Chief Rabbi: Better Not to Pray Than to Pray Reform

Non-Orthodox groups have reacted angrily to Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar’s comments about them in an interview given to the Makor Rishon newspaper ahead of Rosh Hashana.Asked whether it would be better for a secular Jew who happened to be away from home on Rosh Hashana to pray with a Reform congregation or by himself in a hotel, Amar said it ...

Chicago Sighs As Blagojevich Finally Stops Talking

The spectacle that is the Rod Blagojevich political corruption trial is winding down — and much sooner than expected. Closing arguments are scheduled to begin Monday.The former Illinois governor is charged with fraud, bribery, racketeering and conspiracy, among other charges. This past week, the defense rested its case without calling a single witness — not even the former governor himself, ...

Chelsea’s marriage a spiritual Shoah

The haredi Lithuanian newspaper Yated Ne’eman has chosen to devote his editorial piece to a subject wholly ignored by all its competitors – Chelsea Clinton’s wedding – dubbing the marriage a “spiritual Holocaust. It appears that Yated Ne’eman was interested in challenging the assimilation prevalent among US Reform Jews, particularly in light of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent capitulation in ...

Chaveirim & Hatzolah Looking To Borrow SUVs

Chaveirim has reached out to YWN to post that their organization along with Hatzolah are looking for people with SUVs in the Brooklyn area, to assist people in need. Chaveirim tells YWN that they are flooded with calls from people who need to get to urgent doctor appointments, chemotherapy, dialysis, parents to their children’s weddings, and many other urgent – ...

Chassidic Community Shocked: ‘Sabbath Gentile’ a Jew

The Seret-Vizhnitz Chassidic community in Haifa was shocked to discover this week that the man who for years had served as the local “Sabbath gentile” was in fact Jewish.The Ladaat website, which revealed the story, reported that the man in question is of Romanian origin and himself believed that he and his entire family were Christian.He worked for one of the Chassidic ...

Chasidic students finding new appeal in Brooklyn vocational college.

A member of the Chabad-Lubavitch sect and a resident of Brooklyn’s heavily chasidic Crown Heights neighborhood, Dov Ber Cohen had no diploma and no career goal when he finished his yeshiva high school two years ago.An indifferent student, by his own description, Cohen thought he would study eventually for his GED high school equivalency degree and work in some business.Then ...

Chasidic Leaders Dump Schneiderman In Favor Of Dan Donovan For Attorney General

In a surprise move, over a dozen of the most influential leaders of the Chasidic sects of Satmar, Bobov, Munkatch, Klauzenberg, Boyan, Belz, Krasna and Ger have dumped their preferred primary candidate Democratic State Senator Eric Schneiderman to endorse Republican District Attorney Dan Donovan for Attorney General in the hotly contested General Election next week Tuesday, November 2nd.Insiders say that ...

Chasidic History: Belz Sends Delegation To Graveside Of Satmar Rabbis To Ask Forgiveness

VIN News has confirmed that a historical reconciliation appears to be underway between Satmar and Belz after decades of conflict and hostility.The gabbei of Belzer Rebbe, R’ Shimon Wolf Klein and a delegation of ten Belzer dayanim from all over the world paid a visit today to the kever of the Satmar Rebbe, R’ Yoel, zt’l, in Kiryas Joel, and ...

Charges Dropped Against Jewish Man Videotaped in NYPD Police Beating

All charges have reportedly been dropped against Ehud Halevy, the unarmed man beaten by Brooklyn police inside a Crown Heights youth center earlier this month.Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes told reporters he was closing the case against Halevy, who was captured on videotape being pummeled by cops Halevy had faced up to seven years in prison for supposedly assaulting the ...