If you have the misfortune to come to grief in the vast Negev desert you would probably give up all hope for survival. But I bet you’d start believing in miracles when you hear the approach of Magen David Adom’s new Israel Southern Emergency Lifesaving h

I don’t always see eye-to-eye with Abe Foxman of the Jewish Antidefamation League (ADL), but I want to give him his props on a recent statement issued by the ADL. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has called on the Chief Rabbinate of Israel to publicly de

When Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger tried to raise the Torah scroll at Kibbutz Ein Harod, he found it particularly difficult – the ceiling was too low. Metzger recently decided to spend Shabbat in the secular kibbutz. He arrived there before the start of the

Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger on Thursday contacted all 120 MKs and urged them to reject a Knesset bill that would grant couples the freedom to choose the rabbinate office where they marry. Acknowledging that it was unusual for a chief rabbi

JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Women may deliver eulogies at funerals, the Religious Services Ministry told Israeli burial societies. The directive released Tuesday comes after the ministry adopted a halachic ruling issued more than a year ago by Chief Ashkenazi Rab

Yarkoni, who died on January 1 and was