Rabbinate
Popular Israeli singer Yehoram Gaon marries partner Ella Lusa at age 86
The couple reportedly first met on Facebook, after Lusa sent Gaon a message as a fan of his work. The two began talking on Skype, eventually met in person, and started dating.
Surging LGBTQ enrollment in Jewish seminaries signals ‘astounding’ shift in US rabbinate
First-ever empirical study of US rabbinate finds ‘shortage’ is more about fit than numbers
High Court stands firm, denies Chief Rabbinate’s bid to block women from religious exams
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."
Skip the forms and use only your ID to get married
The new venture would allow couples to bring only their IDs to the rabbinate, and significantly speed up the process of marriage.
A most serious of offenses
Understanding sexual abuse through the lens of Halacha
Marriage in protest: Three weddings make a statement to Rabbinate
Same-sex couple says they will marry in DC because no recognizable entity in Israel will acknowledge their marriage
Third woman gets divorce after independent Orthodox court annuls marriage
Court convened at request of Center of Women’s Justice represents a challenge to the state rabbinical courts which decline to use tools for annulling or dissolving marriages even in long-term cases.
