Efrat israel

Don’t leave off the love: Devorah Ahavah Gerzoff’s journey to Jewish faith and Israel

A slow rediscovery of Judaism that led from suburban America to a love affair with Israel.

Devorah Ahavah Gerzoff with husband Simcha Moshe.
YARON SHANE: Members remain in the database ‘until they break the glass.’

Inside Chiburim: Yaron Shane’s mission to help IDF soldiers find Love After War

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Israeli community builds world's only mechanical-divide swimming pool

Ohr Torah Stone’s Neveh Shmuel Yeshiva High School dedicated the “Hall of Heroes,” a permanent memorial honoring 25 alumni of the yeshiva who fell in Israel’s wars and terror attacks over the past decades, including 11 who fell in the past two years.

This high school’s library is now a memorial to 25 fallen alumni in Efrat


Rabbi Riskin’s term extended after Rabbinate had thrown doubt on his continued tenure

“I think this episode was a huge victory for those who want to see changes in the Rabbinate,” says Former Yesh Atid MK Dov Lipman.

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin

They don’t dance on Shabbes

Spotting a lack of opportunity for religious hip-hop dancers, Raquella Siegel Raiz introduced the Battle of the Crews competition for all-female performers and audience.

Raquella Raiz.

Middle Israel: Who’s afraid of Rabbi Riskin?

By unleashing his clerics on one of Modern Orthodoxy’s icons, Arye Deri has picked a fight he cannot win, and the Chief Rabbinate might not endure.

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin

Rabbi Riskin – until 120

Age is a number, no more and no less.

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin

Chief Rabbinate throws doubt on Riskin's continued tenure

Riskin to Post: My position on conversion should not be cause for deliberating as to whether I continue.

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin

Une révolution en marche

Le monde religieux est le théâtre d’une évolution significative : pour la première fois en Israël, une femme devient leader spirituel

Jennie Rosenfeld est devenue début février conseillère cultuelle d'Efrat

The truth about Gush Etzion

Tens of thousands of Jews, if not more, had lived in the area before even one Palestinian ever set foot in Gush Etzion, among them the famous Bar Kokhba.

HOUSES IN the Jewish community of Efrat

Orthodox woman appointed to serve as communal spiritual leader in Efrat

Efrat’s municpal chief rabbi Shlomo Riskin selects Dr. Jennie Rosenfeld in what is perhaps the first appointment of its kind in Israel in the Orthodox world.

Jennie Rosenfeld

Parshat Nitzavim-Vayelech: The inner divinity

The Hebrew word for life, hayyim, is a plural noun; the “soul of life” is the God who resides within each of us, the essence of our personalities to whom we must return.

Parshat nitzavim-vayelech

A legal right and a moral imperative

Israel holds legal title to all land that is not privately owned in Judea and Samaria.

The ‘state lands’ of Gvaot in the Etzion Bloc