Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo secured the backing from leaders of a typically bloc-voting Orthodox Jewish group on Sunday — after a rabbi in the Brooklyn sect reportedly issued an “unauthorized” mayoral ...

Rabbi George J. Astrachan, age 86, of Silver Spring Township, Mechanicsburg, died at 3:23 AM Sunday, November 2, 2025, at Carlisle Nursing and Rehabilitation. He was the husband of Rita F. (Yamin) ...

Rabbi Alvin Kass, considered the spiritual heart of the NYPD for more than 60 years, has died, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced Wednesday. He was 89. “This morning we lost an NYPD legend,” ...

A group of social justice rabbis, including a transgender rabbi who reportedly mingled with Iran's president and was kicked out of the Biden White House for hijacking the event to call for a ceasefire ...

Rabbi Moshe Hauer (Orthodox Union (photographer: [Gary Magder]) Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. I remember exactly when I first heard from Rabbi Moshe Hauer. It was a Saturday ...

American Jewry is reeling following the sudden death of Rabbi Moshe Hauer, the executive vice president of the Orthodox Union who was widely known and admired across denominations. Hauer, the O.U.’s ...

This article is featured in the 2025 Homecoming Special Issue. Rabbi Moshe Leib Gray is a cornerstone of Jewish life at Dartmouth. Gray and his wife Chani founded the Dartmouth chapter of Chabad in ...

R’ Lipa Klein, one of the elder Chabad Chassidim of Nachlas Har Chabad, who preserved his Chassidic life in Tashkent during Soviet times amidst great challenges, and later one of the founders and ...

A rabbi in New Jersey was assaulted in a random attack Sunday afternoon ahead of a weeklong Jewish holiday, prompting police to add extra patrols around residences and synagogues. Avraham Wein, the ...

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