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
Cultivated meat and kashrut: What will the Kosher status be? - opinion
The question of the kosher status of cultivated meat products carries great significance for the future of kashrut and may lay the groundwork for entirely new precedents in this area.
High Court rules: Women can be on committee to select Chief Rabbi
The impact of the decision is yet to be seen: it does not mandate, but merely permits, the inclusion of women to be considered for the committee that selects Chief Rabbis and Chief Rabbinate Council.
Over 15 IDF soldiers pronounced dead in Gaza without bodies
Pronouncing a person’s death is one of the most sensitive, religiously complex issues faced by the Military Rabbinate.
Chief Rabbi David Lau establishes special rabbinical court to support agunot affected by war
An agunah is a woman unable to be divorced by her husband. During the Israel-Hamas war such cases have become noticeable enough to warrant rabbinical intervention.
Senior judge in rabbinic court system named as victim in Jerusalem attack
Wasserman was considered one of the more senior and experienced judges in the rabbinical court system.
Rabbinate releases instructions for keeping Shabbat during wartime
Some laws can be altered or followed differently due to the principle of "pikuach nefesh," asving a person's life.
New to Israel? Rabbis here aren't the same as they are elsewhere - opinion
Many immigrants assume that the rabbinic model they knew in their country of origin applies in Israel. This is not the case.
The saga of hotels’ late Shabbat and holiday checkout
Why do hotel guests, some of them wealthy, accept the procedure of paying for late check-out abroad, but expect it gratis in Israel?
Kosher food in Israel is an $800 million racket of corruption - opinion
The direct cost of corrupt kashrut services is very high and burdens the economy with about $800 million, as well as raising the cost of almost all goods to our families, rich and poor.
Israel's Chief Rabbinate has become a hereditary monarchy - opinion
The position of chief rabbi, which has a ten-year tenure, has become a political tool and the province of members of a few elite families who monopolize it.