Rabbinate
Law widening religious courts’ role in civil disputes sparks debate over choice, rights - analysis
Critics also challenge one of the law’s intended benefits of easing pressure on the civil courts, arguing that the state is instead giving an existing judicial body additional authority.
Shas fills local rabbi posts with loyalists, sidelining community choice - opinion
From tragedy to protection: The fight against agunah status - opinion
Knesset panel advances bill to expand rabbinical courts’ power over civil matters
‘Aguna’ – a midcourse Jewish history correction
Anecdotes are not scientific research. But these and 100 others like them define the widely held communal paradigm regarding iggun. Let us extrapolate some views:
Rabbis with knives between their teeth are needed
How is it possible the religious parties have failed to inspire the majority of Israelis to feel closer to Judaism and to foster a greater appreciation for the Jewish way of living?
Court rules against Liberman, in favor of Jewishness DNA testing
In the majority decision, penned by Justice Neal Hendel, it was determined that the petition didn't present sufficient evidence proving that the rabbinate's actions were discriminatory.
Man who refused wife divorce demands embryo in return for annulment
Women’s rights group says the rabbinical court pressured the man's wife to accept a deal in order to obtain her divorce.
The rabbinate’s own wake-up call
Israel’s Rabbinical Court is indeed more powerful that any of its counterparts in the Diaspora. Empowered by civil law, it holds sole jurisdiction over the personal status of Jews in Israel.
Living with a collar around my neck
As a young ultra-Orthodox woman of marriageable age, nothing really prepared me for what ensued.
Amb. Dermer forms group of rabbis to bypass established organizations
"The convening rabbis will conduct a dialogue and cooperate with the Jews of Israel on issues pertaining to the entire Jewish people.
Rabbinical courts revoke conversion approved by Beth Din of America
Making the situation even more Kafkaesque is the fact that a sibling of the man in question got married through the Chief Rabbinate several years ago without questions raised about Jewish status.
‘Three weddings and a statement’ challenges Chief Rabbinate on marriage
Three Israeli couples are being married in a synagogue in Washington, D.C. March 26 in protest of their own country, whose Chief Rabbinate will not allow them to marry.
Three Israeli weddings to be held in Washington protesting rabbinate
“One is a transgender, gay couple; the second couple has one partner that Israel’s Chief Rabbinate does not consider to be Jewish."