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Hardline rabbinic rhetoric now echoing across yeshivas, with students told those demanding they enlist are 'stupid' and 'hate ...
In 1944, Rabbi Kahaneman reestablished the Ponevezh Yeshiva once again — this time in B’nai Brak, in what would become Israel — with seven students.
Ponovezh Yeshiva heads condemn lengthy dates and frequent gifting between engaged couples, calling these practices halakhically problematic and urging restraint during the engagement period.
In 1944, Rabbi Kahaneman reestablished the Ponevezh Yeshiva once again — this time in B’nai Brak, in what would become Israel — with seven students.
Ponevezh’s students recited the psalm, a traditional Jewish response to times of crisis, as a plea in the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, which killed and wounded thousands, largely ...
The Yeshiva of Ponevezh was forced to relocate, first to Ludza in nearby Latvia, and then once again to Mariupol. Before returning to reestablish itself in independent Lithuania in 1919, the yeshiva ...
Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, Rosh Yeshiva of the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, on Thursday issued a Da’at Torah statement saying people who have been abused themselves or have relatives who have ...
He led the famed Ponevezh Yeshiva and was a spiritual leader of the United Torah Judaism party Rabbi Gershon Edelstein gets helps as he casts his ballot in the Nov. 2022 election in Israel. (Getty) ...
In Iyar 5760 (2000) Rabbi Edelstein ZT’L became the co-Rosh Yeshiva of Ponevezh––where he had served as Ba’al Tokei’ah (blower of the Shofar) since 5706 (1945).
Haredi Jews visit Israeli soldiers to show their support as they deploy at a position near the border with Gaza in southern Israel on Oct. 11. (Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images via JTA.org) Eliyahu ...