Israeli Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger and other notables helped inaugurate the first Jewish ritual bath to be built in the English city of Oxford in more than seven centuries.
Built by Chabad-Lubavitch of Oxford, the Slager Family Mikvah "fulfills a vision by the founders of the Oxford Jewish community dating back to 1845," according to Rabbi Eli Brackman, co-director of the Oxford Chabad House, which serves local residents and students of Oxford University. "Back then, local Chief Rabbi Nathan Adler inquired about the presence of a mikvah, to which the community of four families, 20 individuals and one ritual slaughterer responded ‘not yet.’" Continue...
The night before his 14-hour hike up Mount Meru – a nearly 15,000-foot tall volcano in Tanzania’s scenic Arusha National Park – Dr. Itamar Shein couldn’t sleep.
Jewish people have inhabited Scotland for more than 300 years, but in all that time, the group hasn’t been able to lay claim to a tartan of its own.
The Rabbinical Council of the United Synagogue in England appointed