Riskin recommended that there be more small prayer services in order to avoid large gatherings of any type.
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin decided not to run for a spot on 17-member body, with elections scheduled for September 3.
English-speaking immigrants to Israel were awarded prized in advocacy, culture and leadership.
"We can only hope and pray that Congress will be wiser and will prevent this Alice-in-Wonderland deal-debacle before it destroys the entire free world."
We must continue to work to restore Rav Kook’s universalist vision and path. Judaism – and all Jews – deserve no less.
“I think this episode was a huge victory for those who want to see changes in the Rabbinate,” says Former Yesh Atid MK Dov Lipman.
The attempt to capriciously deploy a retirement law, for ideological reasons, against Rabbi Riskin is an outrage.
By unleashing his clerics on one of Modern Orthodoxy’s icons, Arye Deri has picked a fight he cannot win, and the Chief Rabbinate might not endure.
"I’m writing as a taxpayer, as an observant Jew, and as an Israeli double-digit grandmother, who cares intensely about the Jewish future of the Jewish state."
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