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Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein, co-head of Yeshivat Har Etzion in Alon Shvut, south of Jerusalem in the West Bank, on December 7, 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)
January 9, 2026, 8:17 am
Leading Religious Zionist rabbi: Extremist settler violence must be stopped from the pulpit
Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein, co-head of Yeshivat Har Etzion in the West Bank settlement of Alon Shvut, discusses the challenges facing his community and the country as a whole
By Rossella Tercatin
Rabbi Norman Lamm, inset, helped rebuild Yeshiva University into the flagship of Modern Orthodoxy during his nearly three decades as its chancellor. (Lamm photo: Yeshiva University; library photo: Wikimedia Commons)
May 31, 2020, 8:56 pm
Rabbi Norman Lamm, longtime head of Yeshiva University, dies at 92
YU president for nearly 30 years, prolific author, and pulpit rabbi strived to find a centrist position for Modern Orthodoxy between the secular and religious worlds
By Uriel Heilman
The women's siyum HaShas in the Jerusalem Convention Center on January 5, 2020 (Courtesy)
January 6, 2020, 2:04 pm
In Jerusalem, the world of Talmud study fetes its newest superstars — women
An event marks the culmination of a 7.5-year daily gemara cycle — and a crescendo in decades of efforts by teachers to wrest Jewish texts from men’s-only clubs
By Marissa Newman
Illustrative image of a woman reading from the Scroll of Esther. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
February 27, 2017, 6:39 am
Orthodox women rabbis don’t ‘count’ in prayer quorums. Should they?
As the dust settles from the Orthodox Union’s recent statement outlawing female clergy, some of the perplexed wonder how these new leaders can guide communal prayer
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
A World War II veteran walks past an honor guard of Israeli soldiers during the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem on May 5, 2016. (AFP Photo/Gali Tibbon)
May 6, 2016, 2:37 am
The many Holocausts of the Jews
The memory of the industrial extermination of European Jewry unifies the fractured Jewish world as nothing else can – and confers a desperate significance on what divides us
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, head of the Har Etzion yeshiva and winner of the 2014 Israel prize. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
April 20, 2015, 10:44 am
Renowned Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein dies at 81
American-Israeli Talmudist, Israel Prize laureate, and head of Har Etzion yeshiva leaves a legacy of merging modernity with Jewish study
By ToI Staff
More than 150 Boston-area Jews gathered in front of the city's Trinity Church yesterday for a vigil to remember the victims of last week's Jerusalem synagogue terror attack (photo credit: Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)
November 24, 2014, 12:32 pm
Boston Jews mourn Jerusalem massacre victims at vigil
Rabbi Mosheh Twersky’s hometown assembles in public memorial to those murdered in Har Nof terrorist attack
By Matt Lebovic
In West Roxbury's Baker Street Jewish Cemeteries, a row of ten memorial chapels echoes Boston's Jewish heyday, when Roxbury and Dorchester had 90,000 Jews. In this Sept. 2014 photo, a chapel interior shows signs of abandonment. (photo credit: Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)
November 23, 2014, 3:23 pm
What happened to the Jews of Boston’s ‘Jew’ Hill Avenue?
The rise and fall of Beantown’s Jewish boomtown parallels America’s urban immigration story
By Matt Lebovic
Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, head of the Har Etzion yeshiva and winner of the 2014 Israel prize. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
From the WebFebruary 23, 2014, 9:30 pm
American-raised rabbi wins Israel Prize
Aharon Lichtenstein, leading Modern Orthodox scholar and political moderate, to receive award in Jewish religious literature
Rabbi Meir Soloveichik gives an invocation to begin the first full day of activities at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., Aug. 28, 2012. (Republican National Convention)
June 14, 2013, 5:33 pm
Meir Soloveichik tapped by oldest US synagogue
Scion of famous rabbinic family delivered an invocation at the 2012 Republican National Convention
Kenneth Brander
April 10, 2013, 6:39 pm
Kenneth Brander
The Rav: Memories of a giant
An affectionate rememberance of the great Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik as a man of uncommon compassion and true loving kindness
Shmuley Boteach
March 25, 2013, 12:42 pm
Shmuley Boteach
What enslaves us?
Despite being politically liberated, many people suffer in a mental state of servitude
Rabbi Herschel Schachter conducts services for Holocaust survivors on the Jewish festival of Shavuot, in the Buchenwald concentration camp, May 16, 1945. (Wikimedia Commons)
March 22, 2013, 4:48 am
First rabbi to enter liberated Buchenwald dies
Herschel Schachter, a former chairman of the Conference of Presidents, was 95
By Joe Winkler
Zvi Leshem
December 25, 2012, 10:33 am
Zvi Leshem
The right to refuse
The synchronized attacks on Naftali Bennett underlie a fundamental flaw in Israeli political discourse — the delegitimization of civil disobedience and conscientious objection
Naftali Moses
May 4, 2012, 3:12 pm
Naftali Moses
Anglos, angst and aliya
For those of us who have taken our fate in our own hands and moved out of choice half-way around the world, not having an answer to that big ‘why?’ can be devastating
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