From the Times of London:
An eminent rabbi was so exhausted after three days of constant cocaine-fuelled partying with escorts that his pimp grew worried and cancelled that day’s supply of girls, a jury was told.
Rabbi Baruch Chalomish, 55, who has a £6 million fortune, was a scholarly academic, an accomplished businessman, a [...]

Rabbi Gavriel Cohen set up his Beit Din of Beverly Hills in 1983 with the approval of Israel’s Sephardic Chief Rabbi. He has the support of such Sephardic rabbis as the current Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar and the Sephardic gadol Ovadiah Yosef.
Rabbi Cohen’s conversions are accepted everywhere in the Jewish world. They will typically cost [...]

Israel’s chief rabbis have traditionally divided up their duties — one would handle Beit Din (Jewish law court handling conversions, divorces, business disputes etc) stuff and the other would handle everything else including kashrut (Jewish dietary laws). Then, every five years, they’d switch roles.
As the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi, Yona Metzger, is not qualified, Israel’s Sephardic [...]

The mention comes about 44:40 into his lecture.
I don’t quite understand all the Hebrew or Yiddishisms. Can someone translate them for me?
Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff says on YuTorah.com: "You would think was an article in the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles one week ago. Who’s that guy? Luke Ford? You might think that this is Luke [...]

From the Deseret News:
Drawing from the faith traditions and personal experiences of people with whom he has interacted, Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein has learned some of life’s most important lessons, and he shares them in his book "The Challenge of the Soul: A Guide for the Spiritual Warrior."
Goldstein is his own kind of warrior; as [...]

The rabbis were back by Friday and I’m sure they all talked in their Sabbath sermons about their trip and how wonderfully ecumenical it was.
The Los Angeles Times reports:
The diversity and stature of the group made the visit unusual.
"This is the A-list," said Jacob Dayan, Israel’s consul general in Los Angeles, who organized the delegation [...]

Hirhurim writes: "I sent a few questions to Sara Diament, author of an important new book for parents titled Talking To Your Children About Intimacy: A Guide For Orthodox Jewish Parents (link). My questions are in bold. You can also find a review of the book in a recent issue of The Jewish Star."
They can’t [...]

The Jerusalem Post reports:

Many of the rabbis agree, however, that some of the most valuable moments of the trip happen between planned events, when they have a chance to meet and get to know one another on bus and plane rides.
"Masks come off. We’re becoming human beings to each other. We become two Jews who [...]

From the Wall Street Journal:
Solomon Dwek, whose secret cooperation in a New Jersey corruption and money-laundering probe led to criminal charges against 44 people, pleaded guilty Tuesday to bank fraud and money-laundering charges.
The plea by Mr. Dwek, a 37-year-old real-estate developer, came after authorities in July arrested public officials and religious leaders — including several [...]

From the New York Times:
Sometime during the 10-minute discussion in front of the visitors’ bench, Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman, with a long white beard, a black hat and a black coat, crossed the court from his seat to intervene.
Grossman is the founder and the president of Migdal Ohr, a center for orphans and abused and [...]