Jewish law

Guarding our health is an act of Jewish responsibility - opinion

Neglecting the body is not an expression of faith. Exercise, proper rest, and healthy habits are part of the Jewish obligation to protect the life entrusted to us.

THOUSANDS OF RUNNERS take part in the Tel Aviv Night Run, Oct. 2025.
Rep. Jared Moskowitz in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on January 22, 2026 in Washington, DC.

Jewish US lawmakers warn antisemitic threats have surged since October 7

'Spirituality can grow without diminishing anyone,' says the writer.

Parashat Tazria-Metzora: Turning lemons into lemonade

Rabbi Shlomo Litvin, Director of Chabad of the Bluegrass and Chairman of the Kentucky Jewish Council.

New Kentucky law says authorities must contact Chabad before cremating unnamed body


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.

Jewish wedding (Illustrative)

Helping people exercise their social rights

A beggar on Jerusalem’s Ben-Yehuda Street

A treasure in a relationship

This week, we read two Torah portions: Tazria and Metzora.

THE POOL of a medieval mikve in Speyer, Germany, dating back to 1128

A call for change

Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo says Jewish law has become stagnant, conformist and out of touch with reality.

RABBI NATHAN Lopes Cardozo thinks that Jewish law has ‘fallen victim to boredom’

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.

Haredis protest the autopsy of a baby who drowned in Ashdod

Why Israel needs kashrut reform

Changing such an ingrained culture as that which surrounds kashrut supervision will not be easy.

Stickers with kashrut stamp of Rabbi Moshe Alloun.

‘Jewish law’ clause dropped from nation-state bill

The draft still includes a clause that demotes Arabic from being an official language to being one with "special status."

Jerusalem

Tom Paine debunked the Virgin Birth. What else would a Jew debunk?

The Jerusalem Post

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.

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner

Fiery Knesset debate over courts using more Jewish law gets out of hand

MKs unleash verbal assault on committee chairman Slomiansky.

Nissan Slomiansky