Rabbinical court
Petition to High Court seeks to strike down new rabbinical courts arbitration law
“The powers of the Rabbinical Courts should be curtailed, not expanded,” Israel Hofsheet CEO Uri Keidar said in a statement.
Law widening religious courts’ role in civil disputes sparks debate over choice, rights - analysis
Knesset passes law expanding powers of Israel’s rabbinic courts to arbitrate civil matters
Rabbinical, Sharia courts to be allowed to arbitrate civil disputes, Knesset decides
Rabbinical court approves public shaming to force get refuser's hand
After Aryeh Leib Kishon refused to give his wife a get, despite both religious and secular sanctions and pressure, the court resorted to public shaming.
The arbitrary, dangerous practices of Israel's rabbinical courts - opinion
Women need a safe and clear exit strategy from a broken marriage; whether abusive or not.
How Israel's Rabbinical Court saves agunot in the Diaspora – opinion
The only rabbinical court in the world that has the legal power to levy sanctions or even incarcerate a man until he gives the get, is Israel’s Rabbinical Court.
Former Jerusalem chief dayan Rabbi Zalman Nechemia Goldberg dies at 89
"He was the son in law of the great Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach but he earned his own greatness. "
Rabbi Stav slams Yamina for ignoring religion and state while in office
Head of the Tzohar rabbinical association accuses Yamina leaders of using concern over rabbinical judges committee as a political tool, says ‘public won’t buy’
Yamina accuses Netanyahu of ‘contempt’ for religious-Zionist community
MKs Shaked and Smotrich denounce the decision to give the chairmanship of the committee for selecting rabbinical judges to the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party.
Chief Rabbinate must disclose communications with RCA over testimonials
Controversy has long surrounded the way the Chief Rabbinate decides which Orthodox rabbis abroad it recognizes to give such testimony and it has still never provided clear criteria for this process.
Is the Rabbinical Court’s best good enough?
The Rabbinical Court must set itself free to set the agunot free.
Rabbinical courts' use of polygraphs in divorce proceedings ‘unnecessary’
A women's rights organization expressed concern regarding the use of polygraphs tests by the rabbinical courts in divorce proceedings.
Rabbinical court retroactively invalidates decade-old conversion
According to the rabbinical court ruling, the woman met her partner during her military service while she was still studying for conversion in the IDF’s conversion program.
