How Israel's Chief Rabbinate has become an engine of schism, wrath and shame
Modern-Orthodox rabbis hope to use the current political crisis to retrieve the Rabbinate from ultra-Orthodoxy’s tutelage.
PRESIDENT REUVEN Rivlin with Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi David Lau (left) and Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef at their swearing-in ceremony in 2018(photo credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH 90)ByAMOTZ ASA-EL