Israeli rabbinate
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.
Israelis want civil marriage, to break rabbinic monopoly in new Tu B'Av poll
New interim chief rabbi appointed, previous resigned over inclusion of female rabbis
Israel no longer has chief rabbis after ministry fails to hold timely elections
Ministry to appoint woman to be deputy director of rabbinical courts
MAVOI SATUM director Batya Kahana-Dror (above) sees the appointment of a women as deputy director of the rabbinical courts as merely the first step.
JPost Editorial: Agunot in Zion
While we applaud the High Court’s decision, the “Aguna of Safed” case raises a number of questions regarding the place of Jewish law in a state that purports to be both Jewish and democratic.
A threat to the foundations of Jewish peoplehood
Leaving issues of religion and state to an ultra-Orthodox monopoly is leading to estrangement between Israel and the Diaspora. New arrangements must be reached.
Making kashrut kosher
The danger of the Chief Rabbinate’s databases
The direction that Israel’s religious establishment is taking is worrisome, if not dangerous.
Ask The Rabbi: Does Halacha permit demolition of terrorists’ homes?
Accordingly, it is hard to say that Jewish law gives a definitive answer to this dilemma.
Grapevine: Retraining rabbis
A round-up of news from around Israel.
Rabbinical court statistics on ‘agunot’ being disputed
Women’s rights groups insist rabbis are manipulating data to claim that there are more wives refusing to accept a religious divorce than there are husbands refusing to grant one.
‘Imprisoned in marriage against her will’
The first is the “aguna from Safed,” a case which is unquestionably an anomaly in that a get (a Jewish writ of divorce) was awarded to a woman whose husband was incapacitated by a car accident.
Mevaseret Zion seeks to prevent election of chief municipal rabbi
City can’t afford NIS 400,000 salary, mayor tells religious services minister.
