Israeli rabbinate
Chief Rabbinate Council disputes Tzohar kashrut approval hours after authorization
“The approval was granted unlawfully and did not go through the Chief Rabbinate Council as required,” Director General of the Ministry of Religious Services Yehuda Avidan said.
Rabbinate accused of defying court as Israeli women left waiting for exams
Rabbinate seeks retrial on ruling allowing women to take exams, blames 'halachic noncompliance'
Israelis want civil marriage, to break rabbinic monopoly in new Tu B'Av poll
Chief Rabbi Lau criticizes Edelstein, Herzog over letter on conversion furore
The decision generated international headlines as Lookstein has also converted Ivanka Trump, daughter of US presidential candidate Donald Trump.
It’s time for a new rabbinate
The Israeli Chief Rabbinate took Philadelphia cream cheese off the shelves, and now they’re trying to cancel Rabbi Lookstein and the Jews living around the world who were converted by him.
Allegations of ‘cronyism’ in Bayit Yehudi over rabbinical appointment process
Bayit Yehudi MK Shuli Moalem-Refaeli is strongly lobbying for a candidate who is the brother of her parliamentary aide.
Police find evidence of systematic falsifications by Haifa Rabbinate
The police said on Wednesday that it had investigated two Haifa Rabbinate employees, one of them a senior figure, on suspicion of fraud and breach of trust.
Convert still Jewish says Supreme Rabbinical Court
A woman whose conversion was invalidated by the Jerusalem Rabbinical Court 30 years after she converted had her appeal on the ruling upheld today by the Supreme Rabbinical Court.
Analysis: Unyielding religious establishment threatens to be its own undoing
Slowly but surely, the conflict between democratic rights, and the legally enshrined monopoly of one Jewish denomination over religious life in Israel is being chipped away.
Conversion victory
We recommend that the present government maintain that policy of keeping the question of “Who is a Jew” out of the hands of a bunch of ultra-conservative, politically connected rabbis.
Will Israel split from the Rabbinate? 75% of Israeli Jews want civil divorce
Overwhelming majority of non-haredi Jews support the move, both on the right and left of the political spectrum.
Rabbinical court jails father for supporting son’s divorce refusal
Tel Aviv judges conclude wealthy parents are "active figures" in disabled wife’s "captivity."
Chief Rabbinate in fierce attack on Reform, Conservative movements
As well as its bitter criticism of the Reform and Conservative Movements, the chief rabbinate also protested that it was not consulted on agreement to create prayer section at Western Wall.