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Justice Minister Amir Ohana speaks at the Knesset on September 11, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 11, 2020, 10:29 pm
Justice minister blasts education minister’s ‘backwards’ remarks on LGBT couples
Responding to Rafi Peretz suggesting that gay marriages aren’t natural, mayors of three cities instruct schools to open Sunday’s classes with lesson on acceptance of the other
By Jacob Magid
Israeli stamps showing Jewish-American astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman, who brought a Torah scroll along with him into space. (Space Torah Project via JTA)
November 27, 2019, 5:16 am
Israeli stamps show first Torah flown in space
The commemorative stamps also feature Jeffrey Hoffman, first Jewish-American man to enter space in 1985
By JTA
A thousand-year-old Hebrew Bible, called the Washington Pentateuch, was unveiled to the public for the first time in a special exhibition at Museum of the Bible on November 7, 2019 (Courtesy).
November 8, 2019, 4:58 am
DC museum unveils rare 1,000-year-old Hebrew Bible
Manuscript dating from 10th or 11th century is one of the most ‘well-preserved texts’ from that era, says Museum of the Bible
By Eric Cortellessa
Lili Shain (left) teaches Liat Bartal how to cross-stitch. (Courtesy of Lili Shain)
October 20, 2019, 10:45 am
It takes 1,400 strangers from around the world to cross-stitch a Torah
Currently on view at the Textile Museum of Canada, ‘Torah Stitch by Stitch’ project set to be completed within two years
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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
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