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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

Kan forced to issue an apology by the Journalism ethics committee

After airing a report regarding the unreliable nature of Kosher certificates, Kan were told to issue and apology due to various inaccuracies found within the report.

DECEMBER 16, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
"Kan," the new public broadcaster's logo.

New Rabbinate regulations to ease immigrant Jewish status verification

Publication of new regulations the result of more than half-a-decade of work to standardize Chief Rabbinate policy

NOVEMBER 6, 2019ByJEREMY SHARON
French olim arrive at Ben-Gurion Airport, July 10, 2017

THIS WEEK IN JERUSALEM: Mysterious cancellation

Peggy Cidor’s round-up of city affairs

JULY 31, 2019ByPEGGY CIDOR
SEPHARDIC CHIEF Rabbi of Jerusalem Shlomo Amar: Time to go?

Supreme Rabbinical Court rules out DNA tests for Jewish status in two cases

Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman has labeled their use, principally against citizens from the former Soviet Union, as discriminatory.

JULY 17, 2019ByJEREMY SHARON
Iris, left, and ITIM director Rabbi Seth Farber

Rabbinate chiefs meet with heads of Ethiopian community to end violence

"We are all brothers and the correct way to settle the issues is in conversation while holding mutual respect."

JULY 4, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Chief rabbinate heads meet with the heads of the Ethiopian community in Israel

Bennett: Break Chief Rabbinate monopoly to solve conversion ‘time bomb’

New Right leader says those who are overly stringent on performing Jewish conversion ‘are causing massive damage to Israel and Judaism, blames ‘haredi’ Chief Rabbinate for the problem.

JUNE 24, 2019ByJEREMY SHARON
Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett speaks during a reception hosted by the Orthodox Union in Jerusalem ahead of the opening of the new US embassy in Jerusalem, May 14, 2018

Conversion budget up 21%, number of converts down 30%

Not even a third of of conversion candidates actually convert.

JUNE 7, 2019ByJEREMY SHARON
Boy wearing a kippa