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Miriam Lorie
May 22, 2024, 12:27 pm
OPINION: I’m grateful my kids can say ‘my mum the rabbi’
Change is happening and women are increasingly being empowered to teach and lead across the Orthodox world
By Miriam Lorie
Bavaria’s Minister-President Markus Söder, center, receives an award from the Conference of European Rabbis in Munich, May 9, 2023. On right is CER President Pinchas Goldschmidt and on left is Charlotte Knobloch, head of the Jewish Community of Munich and upper Bavaria. (Marc Müller/CER)
May 12, 2023, 11:57 am
Brexit’s fault: European rabbinical group moves HQ from London to Munich
Conference of European Rabbis President Pinchas Goldschmidt confirms the UK's EU exit was a leading factor in the move.
By Toby Axelrod (JTA)
Noa was excited to welcome London Freemasons to visit their in-house gym
March 27, 2023, 4:15 pm
Charity supporting Orthodox teenage girls awarded £40k Freemasons grant
Noa Girls receives £40,000 towards their ‘Healthy Body, Healthy Mind’ programme
By Sam Baker
Purim celebration in Stamford Hill. Photo: Alan Denney
March 11, 2023, 7:50 pm
OPINION: Like many Charedi women, not driving a car is entirely my decision
Stamford Hill educator Malky Davidovits responds to a recent column by Yehudis Fletcher on Charedi women not driving, writing: "It's my choice, not my husband’s or any other man’s. Why deny my agency?"
By Malky Davidovits
The Times Chasidic school report.
March 3, 2023, 1:26 pm
OPINION: Justified criticism of Chasidic schools, but unnecessarily slanted
Author and historian Derek Taylor is concerned the Times' report "Scandal of unsafe schools where Jewish boys can barely read or write English" falls short of required standards.
By Derek Taylor
Laying tefillin is a daily ritual
February 23, 2023, 5:52 pm
Making Sense of the Sedrah: Terumah
The key to spiritual wellbeing
By Rabbi Boruch M Boudilovsky
Hatzola Northwest
January 31, 2023, 3:45 pm
Couple arrested over death of young girl in Stamford Hill area
Hatzola and London Ambulance brigade called to Orthodox part of London in possible case of child neglect.
By Michelle Rosenberg
December 6, 2022, 10:14 am
Community leader ‘chuffed’ to receive BBC honour for outreach
Charedi pioneer Joel Friedman recognised for building bridges in Essex community of Canvey Island.
By Michelle Rosenberg
A man signs a petition at a demonstration for women's rights held outside the rabbinical court for divorces
November 28, 2022, 1:30 pm
OPINION: Segregation would endanger religious women in Israel
Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll, an American-Israeli writer whose work focuses on women's rights in Orthodox Judaism, reflects on the damage inflicted when 50 percent of the population is excluded from decision making.
By Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll
June 15, 2022, 3:58 pm
Hundreds join Charedi anti-Schools Bill demo outside Parliament
Around 300 members of Stamford Hill's Strictly Orthodox community, and men from further afield, took part in Wednesday's protest against the Government's "discriminatory" Schools Bill
By Lee Harpin
Women praying at the Western Wall
June 7, 2022, 12:41 pm
Israel to hire women as counsellors on sensitive subjects for Orthodox community
Matan Kahana, the deputy religious services minister, said in a release he will hire the women for “communities across Israel” this year.
By Jewish News Reporter
Monday's meeting, which was addressed by Rabbi Elyakim Schlesinger, included a call for attendees to send a pre-written strongly-worded letter to Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi.
May 31, 2022, 10:34 pm
Thousands attend Schools Bill protest meeting in Stamford Hill
Attendees urged to send letter to the Education Secretary claiming Bill 'seems to serve a secret agenda: the assimilation of our community to the practices of the majority'
By Lee Harpin
April 8, 2022, 9:46 am
Making Sense of the Sedra: Metzorah
Actions speak louder than words
By Rabbi Jonny Roodyn
Prime Minister Boris Johnson with Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis and the Downing Street Chief of Staff, Dan Rosenfield.
May 31, 2021, 9:59 am
Strictly-Orthodox leaders condemn Chief Rabbi and ‘pro-Zionist’ rallies
Rabbinical figures, many from the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations, adopt a tone similar to Neturei Karta in opposing those who lobby the government to support Israel.
By Jewish News Reporter
Students study in a yeshiva
February 24, 2020, 10:44 am
Government: unregistered yeshivas illegal, unsafe and will be closed
Officials react after Jewish News shows how Orthodox leaders only wanted to help on safeguarding in return for 'quid pro quo' on curriculum
By Jewish News Reporter
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