by CJV | Jun 14, 2022 | Coverage, Headlines
by Rafael Hoffman in Hamodia Prime, also available as a PDF Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld is in the midst of a unique career change. He spent decades serving as Mara d’Asra of the Young Israel of Kew Garden Hills in Queens, New York, a position he occupied for nearly all of...
by CJV | Jun 10, 2022 | Headlines, Coverage
By Bobby Caina Calvan, Associated Press Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is set to appear before a friendly conference of conservative Jewish leaders in New York City on Sunday, despite efforts by gay rights advocates to get the event canceled. LGBTQ groups, still raw over...
by CJV | Jun 7, 2022 | Headlines, Coverage
by Jeremiah Poff, Washington Examiner A proposed regulation expanding oversight of private schools by the New York Department of Education has set up a clash between the state government and the state’s Orthodox Jewish community, who see the proposal as an...
by Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer | May 24, 2022 | Op-Eds, Headlines
by Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer, The Jerusalem Post Imagine that a new statute prohibiting larceny was enacted and that people claiming to speak on behalf of the Orthodox rabbinate came out against this new statute designed to curb theft of people’s property, due to the...
by Rabbi Yaakov Menken | May 17, 2022 | Op-Eds, Headlines
by Rabbi Yaakov Menken, Newsweek The “Jewish Rally for Abortion Justice” is set to take place today in Washington, D.C. Led by the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), the list of rally sponsors includes the ADL, Hadassah, Hillel and several Jewish...
by CJV | May 10, 2022 | Coverage, Family Values, Headlines
by Binyamin Rose, Mishpacha Visitors to the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., are often fascinated by several statues depicting the allegorical “Lady Justice.” In some of them, Justice is wearing a blindfold, meant to symbolize that the law is impartial....