Chief rabbinate of israel

Tzohar returns to High Court, seeks order compelling Rabbinate to license it as kosher certifier

The new petition argues that, even after a ruling in November ordering the Rabbinate to decide whether Tzohar qualifies and, if so, to issue a license, the state still has not acted. 

A Tzohar kashrut sticker in a window
 Restored mikveh in White Stork Synagogue, Wroclaw, Poland.

Ministry publishes list of mikvaot with shelters nearly two weeks into war, following ITIM appeal

Passengers seen at the Ben-Gurion Airport train station, August 17, 2025

Israel’s chief rabbis protest planned Shabbat public transportation

Ultra-orthodox Jewish men talk on the phone in front of the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on December 4, 2025.

Should control of the Western Wall be delegated to one sect of Judaism over another? - editorial


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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

High Court of Justice May 3, 2020