Posts Tagged: Rabbi Haskel Lookstein
New Sharansky Book Discloses Strains Between Netanyahu, US Jews
“Liberal American Jews really don’t like Israel,” a frustrated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told then-Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky in 2015, according to an account...
New York Congregation Solicits Prayers for Daughter of Former Superintendent Among Injured in Deadly Las Vegas Mass Shooting
The news of Sunday night’s deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas hit close to home for a major New York City synagogue, as one of...
Conversion by Ivanka Trump’s Rabbi Ruled Invalid in Israel
JNS.org - Israel’s Supreme Rabbinical Court has rejected a conversion made by prominent American Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, reaffirming a lower court ruling. Lookstein also converted Ivanka...
Defending Rabbi Haskel Lookstein
I met Rabbi Haskel Lookstein in 1981, about a week before my wedding. I had made aliyah four years earlier and had brought my Israeli fiancé...
Natan Sharansky Joins Protest Against Rabbinical Court Decision Rejecting Rabbi Haskal Lookstein Conversion
JNS.org - Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharanksy on Wednesday participated in a demonstration in front of the Chief Rabbinate building in Jerusalem over a recent decision...
Stringer Celebrates Community
The Center for Jewish History was the setting September 26 for a brief yet warmly moving celebration of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan during which Borough...
