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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 645

Ohr Torah Stone

Candace Owens, a conservative political commentator, speaks on stage during Turning Point USA's 'The People's Convention' at Huntington Place in Detroit, Michigan, June 14, 2024. (Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images)
June 28, 2025, 8:01 am
Candace Owens accuses rabbi of bribing pastors to criticize her; Jewish group shoots back
Ohr Torah Stone responds that accusation by provocateur, who has embraced antisemitic rhetoric, is ‘entirely false, baseless, and defamatory’
By Grace Gilson
(L to R) Rabbanit Hila Naor, Shira Winter and Adva Bucholtz meet at the Tel Hashomer IDF induction center in Ramat Gan on November 26, 2024. (Ohr Torah Stone)
March 28, 2025, 4:07 pm
A new IDF combat platoon lets religious women join the fight while keeping the faith
Spurred by October 7 and bolstered by shifting mores, an all-female force is taking shape within the army, complete with a rabanit to serve the trailblazing troops’ spiritual needs
By Mati Wagner
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
Women study at the Ohr Torah Stone Susi Bradfield Women’s Institute of Halakhic Leadership in Jerusalem on November 22, 2022. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
December 15, 2022, 7:01 am
In first, women take official Jewish law tests, but activists say it isn’t enough
For now, the state-issued exams represent a purely symbolic victory, granting female Torah scholars formal recognition with no practical significance
By Judah Ari Gross
The 12 graduates of a program to train kosher slaughterers in Ethiopia so the Jewish community can have regular access to kosher meat, along with a rabbi from Israel who works with the community (center), in November 2022. (Ohr Torah Stone)
November 30, 2022, 3:28 pm
12 men trained in Ethiopia as kosher meat slaughterers in first for the country
Until now Jews in Ethiopia could only get kosher meat around the holidays when ‘shochtim’ would be flown in; a recent initiative by a Modern Orthodox group worked to change that
By Judah Ari Gross
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