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Rabbi Shaul Shimon Deutsch with the Krumbach Torah Ark. (Courtesy of Guernsey's)
September 15, 2019, 11:46 pm
Post-WWII Torah ark built by US soldiers in DP camp sparks battle between rabbis
Days before auction, unique religious artifact from Krumbach DP Camp pulled from sale, after original owner’s son claims Brooklyn’s Living Torah Museum has no right to sell it
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Left, Bezalel Smotrich, after winning the election for chairman of the National Union, at the Crown Plaza hotel in Jerusalem, January 14, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90). Right, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits a drill of the Armored Corps in Shizafon Base, in southern Israel on January 23, 2019. (Flash90)
June 3, 2019, 7:00 pm
Netanyahu rejects MK’s call to run Israel according to Jewish religious law
In terse tweet, PM says country will not become a ‘halacha state,’ after hardline political ally urged restoring ‘the Torah justice system’
By Jacob Magid
Yisrael Beytenu party chairman Avigdor Liberman speaks at a faction meeting at the Knesset, June 3, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 3, 2019, 5:28 pm
Liberman raps Smotrich for touting return to Torah law, quarrels with Gabbay
Yisrael Beytenu chief demands Labor leader publish video of Netanyahu renouncing him during coalition negotiations
By TOI staff
MK Bezalel Smotrich of the Union of Right-Wing Parties speaks during a Jerusalem Day event at Mercaz Harav yeshiva in Jerusalem, June 2, 2019. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)
June 3, 2019, 10:49 am
Smotrich says he wants to be justice minister so Israel can follow Torah law
Country should go back to ‘days of King David,’ because religious law is ‘far superior’ to the current legal system, URWP co-leader claims
By TOI staff
Rabbi Shaul Shimon Deutsch, founder of Torah Animal World next to the 16-foot Nile crocodile -- his favorite animal in the museum. (Micah B. Rubin/ Times of Israel)
November 4, 2018, 9:57 pm
Every animal in the Torah is stuffed into this biblical taxidermy museum
Overflowing with lemurs and lions, crickets and crocodiles, Torah Animal World’s 1,100-piece collection gives visitors in New York City a hands-on look at God’s creations
By Micah B. Rubin
Adam Sandler poses on May 21, 2017, during a photocall for the film 'The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)' at the 70th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. (Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP)
October 4, 2018, 10:55 am
Adam Sandler sings Torah blessing on Howard Stern show
Actor joins radio host in reciting traditional bar mitzvah routine, noting the ‘weird situation’ of having to sing in ‘this secret language’
By Gabe Friedman
Nathan Lopes Cardozo
July 25, 2018, 3:06 pm
Nathan Lopes Cardozo
The revelation is taking place today!
The Torah was given once, but receiving it takes place every day
Illustrative: Demonstrators at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport protest US President Donald Trump’s executive order imposing a freeze on admitting refugees from certain countries into the United States, January 29, 2017. (Scott Olson/Getty Images via JTA)
July 13, 2018, 1:08 am
An author predicts Diaspora Jewry’s death, at the hands of Tikkun Olam liberals
Lambasting progressive Jewry as inauthentic at best, Jonathan Neumann writes that ‘American Judaism is broken because the Jewish Left broke it’
By Matt Lebovic
Alan Abrams
June 22, 2018, 4:00 pm
Alan Abrams
I think the Torah saved my life
Suicide might have been the most rational thing I could have done, and what saved me isn’t rational at all
Mara Benjamin
June 22, 2018, 2:44 pm
Mara Benjamin
The desecration at the US border
Separating parents and children severs the cord tethering people to their own humanity and to God
Arella Mayer
June 20, 2018, 1:18 pm
Arella Mayer
Lonely man of musical faith
For me, music is like Torah, and they’re both like drinking sea water: the more I drink, the thirstier I get
Ari Kahn
May 18, 2018, 2:27 pm
Ari Kahn
Learning Torah with Joe Lieberman
The former US senator is spreading the word on Shavuot, celebrating one of the greatest paradigm shifts in history
Rachel Stomel
May 18, 2018, 11:38 am
Rachel Stomel
#MeToo at Mount Sinai
How could the Children of Israel stand in God’s powerful presence and truly consent to His command?
Samaritan people pray during a pilgrimage marking the holiday of Passover at Mount Gerizim on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Nablus, May 11, 2012. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/File)
From the WebApril 29, 2018, 10:15 pm
Who stole the Torahs?
NPR report details years-long quest by Samaritan community to locate holy books stolen from their synagogue
Chamutal Shoval
March 21, 2018, 1:55 pm
Chamutal Shoval
The Rabbinate won’t let me take its exams
By not letting us female students of Shabbat, kashrut, and more establish our expertise, the rabbis quash the Torah
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