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History. Yeshiva World News started in 2003 as a news aggregation blog by its founder Judah (Yehudah) Eckstein. It has since grown to an independent news source with freelance reporters and photographers, in addition to continuing as a news aggregator. [ 4] The website was redesigned in 2010, [ 5] and again in 2017.
Misaskim ( Hebrew: מתעסקים ) [2] [1] is an American Orthodox Jewish not-for-profit organization that provides services for the care of the dead and the needs and conveniences of mourners in accordance to Jewish law and custom. Misaskim provides moral support and bereavement assistance to individuals or families, while safeguarding the ...
Shiva. (Judaism) Shiva ( Hebrew: שִׁבְעָה, romanized : šīvʿā, lit. 'seven') is the week-long mourning period in Judaism for first-degree relatives. The ritual is referred to as " sitting shiva " in English. The shiva period lasts for seven days following the burial. Following the initial period of despair and lamentation ...
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Active. Vos Iz Neias? ("What's the news?" in Yiddish ), founded in 2007 and since 2021 rebranded as "VIN News", [ 1] is an online news site that caters to the Orthodox Jewish and Hasidic communities, primarily in the New York metropolitan area. [ 2] Vos Iz Neias competes with Yeshiva World News as the major news website for the Haredi Jewish world.
When the rabbinical school was founded, its first class had only 7 members. After what Yeshiva University's student newspaper, The Commentator, called in 2002 an "aggressive marketing campaign", many young men who previously would have considered Yeshiva University's rabbinical school are now attending YCT. [16]
Avi Weiss received his semikhah (rabbinical ordination) at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University in 1968. In 2013, Newsweek ranked Weiss the 10th most prominent rabbi in the United States, [ 1 ] climbing from number 11 in 2012 and number 12 in 2011, [ 2 ] after being ranked number 18 in 2010.
Messianic Judaism ( Hebrew: יַהֲדוּת מְשִׁיחִית, Yahadút Mešiḥít) is a syncretic [ 1] Abrahamic new religious movement that combines various Jewish traditions with belief in Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah.