Chief rabbinate of israel

Manasseh’s children come home to Zion - and fulfill a 2,700-year promise - opinion

The aliyah of hundreds of members of the Bnei Menashe community from northeastern India, completes a long and meandering journey that began nearly 2,700 years ago.

PEOPLE AWAIT their Bnei Menashe relatives making aliyah, at Ben-Gurion Airport, 2006.
PHILLIPS and COHEN on their wedding day.

Lost in translation, found in love: Ariana Phillips’s path to marriage in Israel

Three women who arrived in the morning to sit the Rabbinate exams finally do so at a four-hour delay, April 27, 2026

Rabbinate accused of defying court as Israeli women left waiting for exams

A Tzohar kashrut sticker in a window

Tzohar returns to High Court, seeks order compelling Rabbinate to license it as kosher certifier


Head of Chief Rabbinate kashrut to be indicted for bribery

Rabbi allegedly took cash in return for bypassing supervision procedures

THE BUILDING of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel in Jerusalem.

Israel's Chief Rabbi calls for public fast day amid coronavirus outbreak

For those who can't fast, Lau asked that they take on a "ta'anit dibur," a practice in which one abstains from all speech that does not concern Torah or prayer.

Chief Rabbi David Lau prays at special prayer service during coronavirus outbreak, March 2020

Is the Rabbinical Court’s best good enough?

The Rabbinical Court must set itself free to set the agunot free.

THE RABBINICAL court of Tel Aviv. It has been said that rabbinical courts allow men to hold back consent to divorce their wives in order to extort the women into agreeing to unfair overall terms.

Kan forced to issue an apology by the Journalism ethics committee

After airing a report regarding the unreliable nature of Kosher certificates, Kan were told to issue and apology due to various inaccuracies found within the report.

"Kan," the new public broadcaster's logo.

New Rabbinate regulations to ease immigrant Jewish status verification

Publication of new regulations the result of more than half-a-decade of work to standardize Chief Rabbinate policy

French olim arrive at Ben-Gurion Airport, July 10, 2017

THIS WEEK IN JERUSALEM: Mysterious cancellation

Peggy Cidor’s round-up of city affairs

SEPHARDIC CHIEF Rabbi of Jerusalem Shlomo Amar: Time to go?

Supreme Rabbinical Court rules out DNA tests for Jewish status in two cases

Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman has labeled their use, principally against citizens from the former Soviet Union, as discriminatory.

Iris, left, and ITIM director Rabbi Seth Farber

Rabbinate chiefs meet with heads of Ethiopian community to end violence

"We are all brothers and the correct way to settle the issues is in conversation while holding mutual respect."

Chief rabbinate heads meet with the heads of the Ethiopian community in Israel

Bennett: Break Chief Rabbinate monopoly to solve conversion ‘time bomb’

New Right leader says those who are overly stringent on performing Jewish conversion ‘are causing massive damage to Israel and Judaism, blames ‘haredi’ Chief Rabbinate for the problem.

Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett speaks during a reception hosted by the Orthodox Union in Jerusalem ahead of the opening of the new US embassy in Jerusalem, May 14, 2018

Conversion budget up 21%, number of converts down 30%

Not even a third of of conversion candidates actually convert.

Boy wearing a kippa