Chief rabbi
Israel’s Chief Rabbi Kalman Ber visits Monaco Jewish community
Rabbi Kalman Ber’s historic Monaco visit strengthened Israel ties and uplifted the Jewish community amid rising antisemitism.
Baku Sephardic rabbi visits Knesset, highlights Azerbaijan commitment to Jewish community security
Argentina's Sephardi chief rabbi reaffirms 100-year-old ruling on conversions, sparks controversy
Grapevine, January 16, 2026: Christian ‘Who’s Who’ in Israel
Municipal chief rabbis serve decades, average pension age
The longest-serving municipal chief rabbi has held his office for the last 64 years.
Time to root out Rabbinate, Hamas racketeering against Israel - opinion
From the Chief Rabbinate to Hamas, and from the Negev to the Temple Mount, it is time to break the syndicates that undermine Israeli sovereignty and governance.
Chief Rabbinate declares it will not cooperate with gov’t kashrut reforms
Chief Rabbi Lau said that religiously traditional Israelis and foreign visitors will not be able to understand the differences between competing kashrut authorities.
Reform movement petitions High Court on Jerusalem chief rabbi ‘incitement’
Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem Shlomo Amar has described homosexuals as “a cult of abomination” and said non-Orthodox Jews were worse than Holocaust deniers.
Yitzhak Yosef has no business being chief rabbi of Israel - opinion
Change system and criteria for choosing next chief rabbis long before the next vote in 2023
Municipal chief rabbis to be bound by term limits
Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana intends to create a time-limited service period for municipal chief rabbis, after which they can be reelected, to ensure they stay accountable and relevant.
You need math, English for Torah: Rebuttal to Chief Rabbi Yosef - opinion
Everyone should learn Torah, plenty of it, but it’s rather hard to learn Torah without the aid of the skills imparted by what is called the core curriculum.
‘Legislation on dayanim selection committee discriminates against men’
Legislation proposed by the government to change how women are selected to serve on the Selection Committee for Rabbinical Judges would mean that no more men could be appointed now.
Chief Rabbi Yosef: Science, math are nonsense, study in yeshiva instead
The chief rabbi spoke proudly of not finishing school or having a high school diploma, and said learning Torah was far more important.
‘Exhume Christian missionary from Jewish plot,’ chief rabbi says
Amanda Elk was a covert Christian missionary and is buried in a Jewish cemetery. Her husband is refusing to rebury her in a non-Jewish cemetery.
