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Israeli report details ‘systematic’ Oct. 7 sexual violence, seeking to shift debate from denial to accountability & Noam Bettan comes in Second for Israel in Eurovision contest & Haredi rabbi issues unusual ruling against using the car during the week & IKEA designer leads renovation of historic mikvah in Gothenburg, Sweden & A Life in the Shadows’: The Hidden Children of the ShoahBy Alex Grobman & with those we have lost


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The Three are Rabbi Yehuda Glick, famous temple mount activist, and former Israel Mk, and then Robert Weinger, the world's greatest shofar blower and seller of Shofars, and myself after we had gone to the 12 gates of the Temple Mount in 2020 to blow the shofar to ask G-d to heal the world from the Pandemic. It was a highlight to my experience in living in Israel and I put it on my blog each day to remember.

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Israeli report details ‘systematic’ Oct. 7 sexual violence, seeking to shift debate from denial to accountability

The report follows a two-year civil commission led by Cochav Elkayam-Levy, an attorney who recently won the Israel Prize for her work.

Israeli report details 'systematic' Oct. 7 sexual violence, seeking to shift debate from denial to accountability - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Protesters outside the United Nations on Dec. 4, 2023, call for condemnation of sexual violence perpetrated against Israeli women. (Luke Tress)

Haredi rabbi issues unusual ruling against using the car during the week

Rabbi Yitzhak Zilberstein, leading Lithuanian-haredi rabbi, slams worshipers who arrive at synagogue by car during the week not on Shabbat

Rabbi Yitzhak Zilberstein, a leading Lithuanian-haredi, criticized worshippers who drive short distances to synagogue, ruling that doing so is forbidden according to Jewish law.

"There are people who go to synagogue during the week with their car. For example, they live on the next street over, a five-minute walk away, and yet they always drive," Rabbi Zilberstein said in a recent lesson delivered to associates in his home.

"One must know that this is a complete prohibition," the rabbi said, citing a verse from Psalms, "In the house of G-d, we will walk with emotion," adding: "These people come in luxury… You should walk with emotion, walk with your feet. It is a disgrace to the honor of the synagogue."

According to him, walking to synagogue is not merely a custom but part of the mitzvah itself. "The reward for steps means walking by foot, without a car," he stressed.

Haredi rabbi issues unusual ruling | Israel National News