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  • Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander, President and Rosh HaYeshiva of the Ohr Torah Stone network

    Halachic prenups increasingly common in the US; Israel lags

    Advocates of such agreements argue that this extra financial burden is a strong motivating factor for recalcitrant partners to grant a divorce.

  • Pinchas Goldschmidt

    European rabbinic leaders reject Orthodox, non-state conversions in Israel

    Conference of European Rabbis makes move in agreement with Chief Rabbinate

  • Arthur Caplan, director of the Division of Medical Ethics at New York University Langone Medical Cen

    Hasidic volunteers kicked out of a major New York hospital

    The hospital now bans all non-family-members and friends from patient floors.

  • Kosher certification

    Founder of private kashrut supervision to be honored

    Rabbi Aaron Leibowitz will receive the Yashrut 'Game Changer' Leadership Award.

    By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

  • File photo: Divorce.

    In unprecedented ruling, court convicts man for refusing divorce to wife

    Tzivya Gorodetsky was married to her husband for nine years and had four children with him before eventually requesting a divorce in 1995 due to his violent and abusive behavior toward her.

    By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN

  • Shabbat feud: Netanyahu says Ayalon highway shouldn’t close during week

    “They closed the Ayalon recently for a march, they closed it for a sporting event, they closed the Ayalon and other main roads and no one said a word,” said haredi MK Gafni.

    By JEREMY SHARON

  • Jewish wedding

    Chupa Pratit - New Orthodox wedding service to be launched

    In a challenge to the Chief Rabbinate’s monopoly on marriage and divorce, new wedding service will use legal loopholes to circumvent draconian laws banning Orthodox, non-rabbinate marriage.

    By JEREMY SHARON

  • Israel's most morbid job?

    ZAKA international director: Work exposes volunteers to such traumatic scenes that only a select few can cope.

    By DANIEL K. EISENBUD

  • Rabbi Yisrael Rozen

    Founder of state conversion authority and Zomet Institute, dies aged 76

    Rabbi Yisrael Rozen worked in the realm of conversion court as his most important work.

    By JEREMY SHARON

  • Orthodox

    Rabbinic journal devotes issue to sexual abuse in Orthodox community

    Rabbinical Council of America journal tackles issues often addressed in private.

    By YAIR ETTINGER

  • Rabbi Menachem Hacohen, a former MK who also presided as chief rabbi of Romania.

    Conversion in Israel: Why is it such a mess?

    Rabbi Menachem Hacohen, a former MK, who also presided as chief rabbi of Romania, says there were relatively few conversion cases in Israel until 1967.

    By ALAN ROSENBAUM

  • RABBI DAVID STAV visits ‘The Jerusalem Post’ this week.

    Meet the rabbi taking on the Chief Rabbinate's kashrut monopoly

    “There are people for whom the Chief Rabbinate has become a religion."

    By JEREMY SHARON

  • TEL AVIV Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau

    GRAPEVINE: Double standards

    From Jacques Pépin to Avigdor Liberman.

    By GREER FAY CASHMAN

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