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

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

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 2, 2021ByJPOST EDITORIAL
High Court of Justice May 3, 2020

High Court denies Chief Rabbinate request for panel on hametz in hospitals

The court decided on Sunday not to hold a new hearing on whether hospitals can ban patients and visitors from bringing in hametz on Passover, upholding its 2020 ruling.

JANUARY 10, 2021ByJEREMY SHARON
‘EVEN DURING the dark days of the Holocaust, we find accounts of brave Jews who went to incredible lengths to obtain matzah.’

Herzog College: Leading the renaissance at Hechal Shlomo

TODAY, HERZOG has embarked on an ambitious restoration of Hechal Shlomo in an effort to restore it to its former glory.

JANUARY 7, 2021ByALAN ROSENBAUM
Hechal Shlomo, the former headquarters of the chief rabbis of Israel, is now the home of Herzog College’s Jerusalem campus and its International Center of Jewish Heritage

Chief Rabbi Lau to Diaspora rabbis: You must vaccinate, dangerous not to

The special campaign for Israel-Diaspora relations led by Lau will continue into the next week.

DECEMBER 17, 2020ByCODY LEVINE
Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau in a meeting with rabbis from the diaspora.

Israel’s kashrut supervision policy needs to change - opinion

While several years have passed since earlier reports, recent revelations make it clear that nothing has really changed.

DECEMBER 8, 2020ByYEHUDA ZIDERMAN
REPRESENTATIVES OF the Chief Rabbinate carry kosher certificates across Jaffa Road in Jerusalem in 2019.

Life in limbo for thousands of couples unable to marry during COVID-19

Creative solutions for civil marriage during the current crisis such as weddings in foreign embassies and on boats in international waters have been proposed to alleviate the crisis

NOVEMBER 26, 2020ByJEREMY SHARON
An illustrative photo of a Jewish wedding in front of the Mediterranean Sea.

High Court demands Rabbinate explain Jewish-status investigations

The Chief Rabbinate has initiated investigations into maternal relatives of citizens without them ever having approached it or the rabbinical courts.

NOVEMBER 22, 2020ByJEREMY SHARON
Are you jewish enough for the rabbinate

Is this the end of the Chief Rabbinate in Israel?

They have no place in Judaism at all, certainly in the 21st century.

OCTOBER 12, 2020ByELI KAVON
Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi David Lau.

Get refuser grants divorce after being arrested at coronavirus checkpoint

"The get has become a halachically endorsed tool that can be abused to extort, control and threaten a spouse," said Director of Yad La'isha.

OCTOBER 9, 2020ByEVE YOUNG
An Israeli police officer and an Israeli soldier at a temporary "checkpoint" in Jerusalem, to check people are not disobeying the governments orders on a partial lockdown, in order to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus on March 31, 2020.