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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 466

Shlomo Riskin

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
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
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, left, speaking with journalist Dahlia Lithwick at the Hannah Senesh Community Day School in Brooklyn, September 12, 2018. (Matthew Sussman for Hannah Senesh Community Day School via JTA)
September 14, 2018, 12:10 am
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan talks of her ‘very strange Jewish upbringing’
Speaking at day school, top judge says she had a bat mitzvah at a modern Orthodox synagogue but did not grow up in a religiously observant home
By Josefin Dolsten
Amihai Zippor
July 12, 2018, 2:37 pm
Amihai Zippor
Rabbi Riskin & Rabbi Brovender in conversation
Two revolutionary Torah leaders reminisce about how they changed the world — and predict the future (women rabbis, anyone?)
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, chancellor of Ohr Torah Stone, presents Rabbanit Shira Zimmerman with her certification as a spiritual leader and arbiter of Jewish law at a ceremony in Jerusalem, January 3, 2017. (Ohr Torah Stone via JTA)
May 1, 2018, 11:16 pm
Shlomo Riskin, Amdocs founder honored for contributions as immigrants to Israel
Nefesh B’Nefesh announces 7 winners of Bonei Zion Prize, awarded to olim from English-speaking countries who make contribution to Jewish state
By JTA
Jeffrey Saks
November 15, 2017, 2:41 pm
Jeffrey Saks
Divorce: Achilles’ heel of Jewish law
Why my town of Efrat is actively protesting a local get-refuser
Efrat Mayor and settlements advocate Oded Revivi speaks to a gathering of Israelis and Palestinians at his sukkah in Efrat, October 11, 2017. (Courtesy Yesha Council)
October 11, 2017, 9:15 pm
Dozens of Palestinians visit settlement mayor’s sukkah in reconciliation event
After similar gathering at Efrat home of Oded Revivi last year, four Palestinians were arrested by PA security forces and held for days
By ToI Staff
From the WebOctober 11, 2017, 10:26 am
The defining line of Orthodox women rabbis
Will Rabbi Brander undo or uphold Rabbi Riskin’s legacy? The Modern Orthodox world wants to know
By Gary Rosenblatt
Rabbi Shuki Reich (L), seminary head of the Susi Bradfield Women’s Institute of Halakhic Leadership, and Rabbi Shlomo Riskin (C), chancellor of Ohr Torah Stone, present Rabbanit Shira Zimmerman with her certification as a Spiritual Leader and Arbiter of Jewish Law at a ceremony in Jerusalem, January 3. 2017. (Ohr Torah Stone)
October 11, 2017, 5:25 am
Why it’s easier to ordain Orthodox women in Israel than the US
While American efforts have been met with opposition from establishment groups, Israel’s own ‘Maharat’ rabbinical graduate program is quietly flourishing
By Ben Sales
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin speaking at the Lincoln Square Synagogue. (screen capture: YouTube/JBS)
October 4, 2017, 9:42 am
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin to step down from education network he founded
77-year-old founder of Ohr Torah Stone will be replaced by Rabbi Kenneth Brander, an administrator at Yeshiva University
By JTA
Avrohom Gordimer
August 10, 2017, 12:06 pm
Avrohom Gordimer
Homosexuality and the Jewish condition
A response to Rabbis Riskin and Greenberg: No, the Torah does not permit Homosexual relations
Steven Greenberg
August 9, 2017, 3:48 pm
Steven Greenberg
Homosexuality and the human condition
Rabbi Shlomi Riskin’s daring empathy places him at the forefront of shifting Orthodox views on what it means to be gay
Some 2,000 Israeli Orthodox activists came to a prayer demonstration in support of the Israeli government's decision to freeze a planned pluralistic prayer pavilion at the Western Wall. July 24, 2017. (courtesy)
July 24, 2017, 7:09 pm
With disunity in air, groups hold dueling prayers for Western Wall’s future
Orthodox organization brings in some 2,000 to push for ‘safeguarding holiness’ of site as Women of the Wall face down catcalls at monthly service
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Dr. Sara Yael Hirschhorn, Research Fellow at the Center for Antisemitism Research at the ADL, and author of 'City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement.' (courtesy)
May 24, 2017, 9:04 pm
How to square a circle: When liberal American Jews become Israeli settlers
In ‘City on a Hilltop,’ Dr. Sara Yael Hirschhorn gives an unflinching account of ‘pioneering’ Americans in the West Bank and the headlines they’ve spawned
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
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