Rabbi Sharon Shalom is one of the first Ethiopian Israelis to be ordained by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel. He is the spiritual leader of a congregation of about 100 people, most of them Holocaust ...

The Religious Zionist (dati leumi) community has a longstanding, ambivalent relationship with the Shulchan Aruch (in the sense of authoritative rabbinic legislation). We are trapped in an ongoing ...

A group of Bnei Noach from Taiwan visit Rabbi Sherki (fifth from right) at the Brit Olam center in Jerusalem. The Algerian-born Rabbi Sherki is also a senior lecturer at Machon Meir, head of the Beit ...

The Shabbat which either coincides with or immediately precedes Rosh Chodesh Nisan is Shabbat HaChodesh (Mishnah, Megillah 3:4; Mishneh Torah, Laws of Prayer 13:20; Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 685:1-4 ...

The Torah passages and Israel's holidays are full of important messages that are relevant and empower our day-today lives. Rabbi Shai Tahan, head of the Sha'arei Ezra community and head of the Arzi ...

A young man relentlessly repeatedly that question one afternoon, the question by which he’d judge my Judaism. The unlikely conversation occurred moments after the conclusion of an egalitarian prayer ...

Shulchan Aruch means "set table", as in all ready to eat. The name reflects Rabbi Caro's intention that the book would lay out the whole corpus of currently relevant halachah in an easily digestible ...