Chabad\’s AskMoses.com Web site features 60 rabbis working 24 hours, six days a week, to address the ethical, spiritual, and practical concerns of both Jews and non-Jews alike.
Israeli security sources are warily considering the possibility that Hezbollah militants in Lebanon will expand their operations into Israel.
An Israeli wounded in a Palestinian terrorist massacre in 1974 plans to sue Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat in the International War Crimes Tribunal at The Hague. Haim Asulin plans to seek $1 billion in compensation for the families of the victims of the Ma\’alot massacre.
The new Reform guidelines for converts to Judaism will have little effect on the many Reform rabbis who already employ many of the traditional practices suggested.
A German corporation that used slave labor to produce some of the weapons that killed American soldiers is now building a monument in Washington to honor the Americans who fought and died in World War II.
Mordecai Richler, a Canadian Jewish literary giant, died of cancer Monday. He was 70.
It\’s noon on Thursday, and already Rabbi Gershon and Carol Bess\’ house smells like Shabbos.
For the right-wing community, much of the growth over the last 25 years had its seeds in the founding of the Los Angeles Kollel. With the goal of setting up a "yeshivische" community in Los Angeles, Rabbis Chaim Fasman and Moshe Rubinstein came out to Los Angeles from Lakewood, N.J., home to one of the country\’s largest kollels [institutions that support men and their families as they spend all day and evening studying Talmud and other Jewish texts].
The 22-member Troop 613 is one of approximately 20 Jewishly observant troops throughout the United States, and the third in Southern California (the Long Beach troop has 27 boys and the La Brea/Fairfax troop has 10).
Both the Israelis and the Bush administration are at a loss for what to do next to quell the violence that has buffeted the region for the past nine months.
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