The F.B.I. identified Malik Faisal Akram, a British national, as the man who took hostages in a Texas synagogue on Saturday. He was killed during the rescue operation.
Tag: Rabbis
As Secular Peace Effort Stutters in Israel, Religious Mediators Hope to Step In
The inclusion of an Islamist party in Israel’s government has spurred a group of imams and rabbis hoping to build a religious-based peace movement.
Israeli Officials Had a Plan to Prevent Tragedy at Mt. Meron. It Was Ignored.
Years of negligence preceded the stampede that killed 45 people. But patchwork religious oversight and the state’s reluctance to intervene sunk efforts to bring order to the site.
He Is Israel’s ‘Prince of Torah.’ But to Some, He Is the King of Covid.
Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky is the spiritual authority for hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews. But his pronouncements on the virus have made him a villain to many.
Jonathan Sacks, the U.K.’s Inclusive Former Chief Rabbi, Dies at 72
In writings and media appearances, he took a universalist view of religion in a multicultural world — a stance that could get him in hot water with conservatives.
Rabbis to Return to German Military Amid Growing Anti-Semitism
The Army will welcome rabbis into its chaplaincy this year to provide spiritual support to Jewish soldiers as anti-Semitism surges in the country.
Passover Under Coronavirus Lockdown: Israeli Jews Revise the Rituals
Why is this night different from all other nights? Israelis celebrate a festival of freedom under isolation and shelter-in-place orders.
Passover Under Lockdown: Israeli Jews Revise the Rituals
Why is this night different from all other nights? Israelis celebrate a festival of freedom under isolation and shelter-in-place orders.
An Israeli Political Aide Confided to His Rabbi. He Was Being Recorded.
A strategist for Benny Gantz denigrated the candidate while seeking pastoral advice. But the rabbi who taped him, it turns out, has close ties to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Rabbi Henry Sobel, 75, Dies; Defied Brazil’s Military Rulers
The leader of the largest liberal Jewish congregation in Latin America, he took a stand when a journalist was killed by his torturers in 1975.