Rabbinate
Knesset panel advances bill to expand rabbinical courts’ power over civil matters
Critics have warned of the bill's democratic implications, including those involving women's rights, which may deepen the rift between the haredi and secular communities.
Popular Israeli singer Yehoram Gaon marries partner Ella Lusa at age 86
Surging LGBTQ enrollment in Jewish seminaries signals ‘astounding’ shift in US rabbinate
First-ever empirical study of US rabbinate finds ‘shortage’ is more about fit than numbers
Kahana’s kashrut reforms get rabbinical backing
Senior religious-Zionist rabbis back end to Chief Rabbinate monopoly, after hardline rabbis opposed the measures.
Kashrut will serve public rather than politicos in new reform - analysis
With certain cafes being mistreated by the rabbinate, Tzohar steps in to supply kashrut approval.
Law to be advanced to allow Elkin to serve on rabbinical judges committee
Law will reduce ultra-Orthodox influence on the appointments committee for rabbinical judges, and preserve the guaranteed place of four women on the panel
Woman denied divorce by rabbinate: 'I don’t want to be Michal Sela'
For some women in Israel today divorce seems like an impossible reality, as religious and legal barriers stretch before them every step of the way. One organization seems determined to change that.
Jerusalem Rabbinate requires beards in job application for inspectors
In addition, the tenders did not state that the positions were open to women and neither were they written using both male and female language.
Cafe Kadosh moves to Tzohar kashrut after ‘illogical’ demands of rabbinate
Cafe Kadosh, located in downtown Jerusalem, decided to leave their Jerusalem rabbinate supervision earlier this year following demands that the establishment put dairy labels on all display items.
Israeli state rabbi spreads racism in the name of Judaism - opinion
The rejection of Ethiopian-Israelis’ Jewish identities is antithetical to Israeli thinking of the past 40 years, including that of Israel’s leading rabbis.
Why is the rabbinate making words non-kosher?
Since when is the Rabbinate in the business of certifying words as kosher or not? Since when does the Rabbinate employ mashgiachei milim (word supervisors)?
Chief Rabbi Lau to conversion judges: Ignore lies about you
"Do not heed to lies and false accusations that are being levied against you, ignore them. Your judgment is from above."
Convicted sex-offender Moti Elon relinquishes his rabbi title
"Elon was convicted of child sexual abuse, yet the Rabbinate steadfastly refused to remove his Rabbinic authority."
