I was five years old when my grandfather, Rabbi Doctor Harry S. Davidowitz, began teaching me Torah. The first time, after a Shabbat dinner at my grandparents’ house, he asked me, “Why are we ...

When Israel’s new Chief Rabbi Kalman Ber recently visited Crown Heights, he davened one morning at Getzel’s Shul and was ...

The World Zionist Organization (WZO) commemorated the legacy of Rabbi Shalom Zvi (Harry) Davidowitz on Wednesday by dedicating a pathway in his honor in the city of Herzliya. Notable figures ...

The city of Herzliya unveiled on December 11 the first street to be named after Shalom Tzvi (Harry) Davidowitz, the Conservative rabbi who might have been responsible for introducing a reference ...

Major Rabbi Menachem Novik, Rabbi of the Shaked Battalion, recounts today (Tuesday) a conversation that opened a connection between him and Sergeant Ido Zano, a 20-year-old from Yehud-Monosson ...

The Levaya of Rabbi Peretz Feigenson obm, a respected Chosid in Crown Heights who was dedicated to Torah learning, passed by ...

In Herzliya, the Conservative Movement celebrates the commemoration of US cleric Shalom Tzvi Davidowitz, who is likely ...

Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel Rabbi David Yosef was crowned on Wednesday as Rishon Lezion, in a ceremony attended by the Shas party's Council of Torah Sages and Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

A Melbourne rabbi says his baby is lucky to be uninjured after a flaming projectile was allegedly thrown from a moving car on a suburban street. The young father was walking on Hotham Street in ...

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The murder at Dubai of an Israeli rabbi representing the Chabad community of Orthodox ... The movement was envisioned and launched by the Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who died in ...