Chief rabbinate of israel

Parashat Vayechi: Keeping Israel Jewish – without coercion

We should value democracy, safeguard it within Israeli society, and participate actively wherever we reside, cherishing the liberties and dignity it secures.

|ByMOSHE TARAGIN
EXPRESSING SUPPORT for separation of church and state.
DESPITE BEING fully recognized by the Chief Rabbinate, many Orthodox converts are living in legal and social limbo, denied citizenship, as they face systemic bureaucracy and discrimination at the Interior Ministry. Here, women pray at the Western Wall.

Recognized by the rabbinate, Orthodox converts trapped in legal limbo over Israeli citizenship

RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS: “Why do I have to keep proving myself? Am I a second-class Jew?” said an Orthodox converted Jewish woman in an interview with The Jerusalem Post.

|ByBATSHEVA SHULMAN
SUPREME COURT Justice Noam Sohlberg attends a ceremony for fallen Israeli soldiers whose burial place is unknown at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on March 6.

Rabbinate seeks retrial on ruling allowing women to take exams, blames 'halachic noncompliance'

The Rabbinate's argument rested on what it presented as firm halachic noncompliance with women taking the exams, as certain topics covered therein are prohibited by nature.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
Women studying at Matan Women's Institute for Torah Studies in Jerusalem.

A small and insufficient victory: Female Torah scholars - opinion

A public body in which women cannot hold certain roles is invalid according to the principles of democracy and not to be taken seriously.

|By AYALA GOLDBERG

Two rabbis oppose the prenup that prevents women from becoming agunot

the two rabbis attacking prenuptial agreements this week are part of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel.

JULY 22, 2021ByRACHEL LEVMORE
THE RABBINICAL COURT's division for Agunot in Jerusalem in 2017

Take politics out of Israel's religious courts - opinion

Part of the reason that Rabbinical Courts have fallen out of favor is that some of the judges are not in step with modern sensibilities.

JUNE 23, 2021BySETH FARBER
THE RABBINICAL Court’s Division for Agunot in Jerusalem.

Can the new gov't resolve Israel's deepest religion and state issues?

RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS: Can the legislation that the new coalition has stated it wishes to advance actually be passed?

JUNE 17, 2021ByJEREMY SHARON
THE CHIEF Rabbinate of Israel in Jerusalem.

Mount Meron: UTJ and Shas propose gov't controlled committee of enquiry

Interior Minister and Shas head Arye Deri would control appointment of chairman, and at least two other committee members, while the chief rabbis would also appoint a representative.

MAY 19, 2021ByJEREMY SHARON
INTERIOR MINISTER Arye Deri attends the funeral of Abraham Ambon, one of the victims of the Meron tragedy, in Jerusalem on Monday.

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.

MAY 16, 2021ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
PRESIDENT REUVEN Rivlin with Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi David Lau (left) and Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef at their swearing-in ceremony in 2018

Kariv condemns Orthodox monopoly over religious life in maiden speech

First Reform rabbi to serve as MK says rights of ‘millions of Israelis’ violated by monopoly of Chief Rabbinate, says he will speak for Diaspora Jews in Knesset.

MAY 5, 2021ByJEREMY SHARON
abbi Gilad Kariv, the director of the Reform movement in Israel attends preparations for the new Knesset on April 5.

Rabbinate is overstepping its boundaries on conversion, divorces - opinion

I believe the Israeli Rabbinate is overstepping their boundaries especially in two areas dependent upon a personal relationship: between a rabbi and convert, and a congregant seeking a divorce.

APRIL 22, 2021BySHLOMO RISKIN
THE TEL AVIV Rabbinate offices.

The Chief Rabbinate's negative approach to Judaism needs to end

How else to explain that with almost every decision it makes, the rabbinate seems to prefer to turn people away from Judaism and religion, rather then embracing them.

APRIL 17, 2021ByJPOST EDITORIAL
THE BUILDING of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel in Jerusalem.

Rabbinate reneges on recognition of foreign rabbinical courts - exclusive

After publishing a list in 2018 of Orthodox rabbinical courts in the Diaspora recognized for performing conversions and divorce, the Chief Rabbinate will again scrutinize all such processes.

APRIL 8, 2021ByJEREMY SHARON
THE HEADQUARTERS of the Chief Rabbinate in Jerusalem, as seen here in 2013.

High Court conversion ruling helps bridge Israel-Diaspora rift

Now is the time to free Israel from the choke hold of the Chief Rabbinate.

MARCH 3, 2021ByJPOST EDITORIAL
High Court of Justice May 3, 2020