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1 The Israeli cabinet on Monday approved the reopening of stores, gyms, hotels, and other venues starting on Sunday, February 21. The decision constitutes a major easing of the sweeping lockdown measures imposed six weeks ago to slow the spread of COVID-19. Many of the institutions set to open Sunday have been shuttered for the better part of the past year due to the pandemic. While street-front shops, malls, markets, museums, and libraries will be open to all Israelis, only people who have been vaccinated or have recovered from the contagion will be able to use gyms, enter sporting an...

First Jewish network launches in the Gulf Plans include setting up Jewish courts to handle marriages, civil disputes and inheritance as well as creating a body to regulate Kosher food February 16, 2021 at 2:35 pm Jewish communities in six Gulf States yesterday announced the launch of their first transnational organization which will serve about 1,000 Jews in the region, news agencies reported. the Times of Israel said. According to the paper, this gathering will bring together Jews in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It will run under the le...

Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter Rabbi Elie Abadie (yellow tie) joins the Jewish community in the UAE for a Hanukkah celebration (photo credit: Courtesy) The Jewish communities in six Persian Gulf countries announced on Monday the establishment of the region’s first communal organization, complete with a rabbi and Jewish court, the Beth Din of Arabia. The Association of Gulf Jewish Communities (AGJC), which brings together Jews in  Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, will be headed by Rabbi Dr. Elie Abadie and president Ebrahim...

Jewish communities across the Gulf unite to form new association in UAE The Association of Gulf Jewish Communities aims to create a religious court and coherent kosher certification Levi Duchman, Rabbi of the UAE, leads the celebration of the Jewish holiday, Hanukkah, for the first time in Dubai on December 10, 2020. EPA A Sukkah, a temporary hut constructed to be used during the week-long Jewish festival of Sukkot, the feast of the Tabernacles is pictured in front at Kaf Armani hotel next to Burj Khalifa in Dubai weeks after the UAE normalised ties with Israel. AFP People attend the ignition...

The New York Review of Books recently devoted a lot of space to a review of “The Sword and the... We Have Reason to Believe fell into the hands of Dayan Grunfeld of the London Beth Din, who came from a rather staid Germanic background. He decided that Jacobs’s views were too heterodox for the principle of Jews College and campaigned accordingly. When the time came to make an appointment, Jacobs was blocked by Chief Rabbi Israel Brodie at the urging of the Beth Din and the newly enthroned lay leader of the United Synagogue, Sir Isaac Wolfson. Jacobs resigned.