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.

YEHORAM GAON
Hannah and Ally Karpel-Pomerantz met as rabbinical school classmates at Hebrew Union College. They are set to be ordained at the end of the school year.

Surging LGBTQ enrollment in Jewish seminaries signals ‘astounding’ shift in US rabbinate

Inside a synagogue sanctuary, as new research sheds light on how fewer rabbis are choosing pulpit life.

First-ever empirical study of US rabbinate finds ‘shortage’ is more about fit than numbers

 The High Court of Justice in Jerusalem

High Court stands firm, denies Chief Rabbinate’s bid to block women from religious exams


Kashrut will serve public rather than politicos in new reform - analysis

With certain cafes being mistreated by the rabbinate, Tzohar steps in to supply kashrut approval.

A Tzohar kashrut sticker in a window

Law to be advanced to allow Elkin to serve on rabbinical judges committee

Law will reduce ultra-Orthodox influence on the appointments committee for rabbinical judges, and preserve the guaranteed place of four women on the panel

New Hope MK Ze'ev Elkin is seen at a meeting of the Knesset Arrangements Committee.

Woman denied divorce by rabbinate: 'I don’t want to be Michal Sela'

For some women in Israel today divorce seems like an impossible reality, as religious and legal barriers stretch before them every step of the way. One organization seems determined to change that.

MAVOI SATUM, together with several organizations, demands solutions the Jerusalem Rabbinical Court on International Women's Day

Jerusalem Rabbinate requires beards in job application for inspectors

In addition, the tenders did not state that the positions were open to women and neither were they written using both male and female language.

THE HEADQUARTERS of the Chief Rabbinate in Jerusalem, as seen here in 2013.

Cafe Kadosh moves to Tzohar kashrut after ‘illogical’ demands of rabbinate

Cafe Kadosh, located in downtown Jerusalem, decided to leave their Jerusalem rabbinate supervision earlier this year following demands that the establishment put dairy labels on all display items.

Cafe Kadosh

Israeli state rabbi spreads racism in the name of Judaism - opinion

The rejection of Ethiopian-Israelis’ Jewish identities is antithetical to Israeli thinking of the past 40 years, including that of Israel’s leading rabbis.

AN ISRAELI ETHIOPIAN woman prays during a ceremony marking the holiday of Sigd, in Jerusalem in 2019.

Why is the rabbinate making words non-kosher?

Since when is the Rabbinate in the business of certifying words as kosher or not? Since when does the Rabbinate employ mashgiachei milim (word supervisors)?


Chief Rabbi Lau to conversion judges: Ignore lies about you

"Do not heed to lies and false accusations that are being levied against you, ignore them. Your judgment is from above."

Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi David Lau.

Convicted sex-offender Moti Elon relinquishes his rabbi title

"Elon was convicted of child sexual abuse, yet the Rabbinate steadfastly refused to remove his Rabbinic authority."

Rabbi Moti Elon 300

Agunas are 'strangled' in abusive marriages - so they protested

"The pain in my heart is deep as I remain in a state of perpetual waiting," said Rivka, 41, one of the women featured on the posters in the protest.

A poster illustrating the chained marriage of Rivka, 41, who has been refused divorce by her husband for 17 years, February 25, 2021.