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Kenneth Brander

Neveh Shmuel Yeshiva High School class of 2020 on a field trip. The three alumni who were killed while fighting in Gaza are circled in red. (courtesy)
December 1, 2023, 3:22 pm
A religious boys’ high school in Efrat grapples with war losses
Neveh Shmuel Yeshiva High School in Efrat has had three recent alumni from the same class fall in Gaza fighting, along with two parents of current students
By Gavriel Fiske
Rabbi Kenneth Brander delivers a lecture (rabbikennethbrander.com)
July 7, 2022, 6:16 pm
Orthodox leader pledges to teach pluralism after zealots overrun egalitarian prayers
‘Thanks to those hoodlums, 5,000 students will all learn about the importance of respecting Reform and Conservative Jews,’ says Rabbi Kenneth Brander of the Ohr Torah Stone network
By Judah Ari Gross
A police officer stands between a group of ultra-Orthodox youths and a bar mitzvah ceremony at the egalitarian section of the Western Wall on June 30, 2022. (Laura Ben-David)
July 5, 2022, 6:17 pm
US antisemitism envoy ‘deeply disturbed’ by Western Wall egalitarian services fracas
Days after ultra-Orthodox extremists disrupted bar mitzvah services, Deborah Lipstadt says ‘such a hateful incident’ would be called antisemitism in any other country
By Amy Spiro and Judah Ari Gross
Shira Sapir receives her certification as "morat hora'ah" and spiritual leader from Ohr Torah Stone during a ceremony in Jerusalem, July 5, 2020. (Gershon Ellinson via JTA)
July 10, 2020, 11:38 am
Israeli Orthodox organization certifies woman as authority on Jewish law
Rabbanit Shira Sapir earns title from Ohr Torah Stone after five-year course of study
By Marcy Oster
Illustrative: In this March 23, 2020 file photo, coffins are placed on scaffolding in the Crematorium Temple of Piacenza, northern Italy, awaiting cremation due to the coronavirus emergency. (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP)
March 29, 2020, 5:42 pm
State-mandated cremation is a posthumous ‘mitzvah,’ says leading Orthodox rabbi
Head of the Israeli Ohr Torah Stone network Rabbi Kenneth Brander states unequivocally that fighting the virus is more important than Jewish funeral rites
By Nathan Jeffay
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, chief rabbi of Efrat, during a prayer service held in celebration of his renewed appointment as the settlement rabbi after a long battle with the chief rabbinate on July 6, 2015. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
November 16, 2018, 3:09 am
For a liberal Orthodox educational network in Israel, it’s the end of an era
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin steps down as head of vast Israeli educational network 35 years after founding it
By JTA
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