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    Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner slapped with lawsuit over financial disclosures

    The couple is being sued by Washington lawyer Jeffrey Lovitky, who alleges they failed to disclose investments in two law firms.

  • ‘The Blasphemer Stoned,’ by Gerart Hoet, 1728

    The death penalty: proceed with caution

    While the death penalty is on the books in the State of Israel, the country has only civilly executed one person in its 65 year history.

  • Venice Jews

    Oldest known Ten Commandments tablet sold for $850,000

    The 1,500-year-old tablet is chiseled with 20 lines of Samaritan script.

  • Shabbat candles

    Shabbat/ Chag candle-lighting times for U.S. and Israel

    See Shabbat/Chag times for your area.

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  • International humanitarian law in Halacha

    MANY RECENT scholars have argued that the international community’s failure to uniformly enforce its rules entirely undermines any possible halachic recognition of international law.

    By SHLOMO BRODY

  • Needy people line up to fill up their baskets with foods and goods on Thursday ahead of the Passover

    Pesach: Surrounded by charity

    While we always have an obligation to give, on Pesach it gets amped up.

    By AARON KATSMAN

  • A GROUP of women partake in Yad La’isha’s annual ‘Women Moving Mountains’ hike in order to raise awa

    ‘No one should be an aguna for even a day’

    Organization for wives with recalcitrant husbands aims to bring awareness to plight

    By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN

  • The Independent rabbinical court headed by Rabbi Daniel Sperber (center) issues its ruling on Sunday

    Third woman gets divorce after independent Orthodox court annuls marriage

    Court convened at request of Center of Women’s Justice represents a challenge to the state rabbinical courts which decline to use tools for annulling or dissolving marriages even in long-term cases.

    By JEREMY SHARON

  • Shabbat candles

    Shabbat candle-lighting times for Israel and U.S.

    See Shabbat times for your area.

    By JPOST.COM STAFF

  • President Reuven Rivlin congratulates the Distinguished Fellows in Hebrew Law

    Distinguished Fellows of Hebrew Law meet with President Reuven Rivlin

    “It amazes me how Hebrew Law, which was formulated 2,000 years ago, is applicable to current legal problems. Sometimes there’s a great philosophy in only one or two sentences.”

    By GREER FAY CASHMAN

  • Halachic experts who will be answering questions on the Meshivat Nefesh website (August 20, 2018).

    First-ever ‘Ask the Rabbanit’ website to be launched by women scholars

    The initiative, called Meshivat Nefesh, follows an eight-month pilot period in which leading female halachic experts have answered more than 200 questions on a popular websites.

    By JEREMY SHARON

  • Jewish wedding

    Chupa Pratit - New Orthodox wedding service to be launched

    In a challenge to the Chief Rabbinate’s monopoly on marriage and divorce, new wedding service will use legal loopholes to circumvent draconian laws banning Orthodox, non-rabbinate marriage.

    By JEREMY SHARON

  • Haredis protest the autopsy of a baby who drowned in Ashdod

    Haredi protestors take body of deceased baby from ambulance during funeral

    The baby drowned to death in the southern city of Ashdod earlier this week.

    By JPOST.COM STAFF

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