Chief rabbinate of israel
High Court challenges law excluding women from Israel's Chief Rabbinate elections
The court issued an order requiring the respondents to explain why a 2024 law should not be interpreted to require the rabbis to also appoint women as representatives in the electoral assembly.
Who owns Judaism? Israel must take it back from the religious establishment - opinion
Chief Rabbinate Council sets new financial range for ketubahs
ITIM organization asks High Court to bar draft evaders from Rabbinate exam benefits
High Court bans Chief Rabbinate mandatory Jewish status investigations
Relatives of individuals put on marriage blacklists have been forced to undergo Jewish status investigations by the Chief Rabbinate, and their personal status data used without authorization.
Two rabbis oppose the prenup that prevents women from becoming agunot
the two rabbis attacking prenuptial agreements this week are part of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel.
Take politics out of Israel's religious courts - opinion
Part of the reason that Rabbinical Courts have fallen out of favor is that some of the judges are not in step with modern sensibilities.
Can the new gov't resolve Israel's deepest religion and state issues?
RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS: Can the legislation that the new coalition has stated it wishes to advance actually be passed?
Mount Meron: UTJ and Shas propose gov't controlled committee of enquiry
Interior Minister and Shas head Arye Deri would control appointment of chairman, and at least two other committee members, while the chief rabbis would also appoint a representative.
How Israel's Chief Rabbinate has become an engine of schism, wrath and shame
Modern-Orthodox rabbis hope to use the current political crisis to retrieve the Rabbinate from ultra-Orthodoxy’s tutelage.
Kariv condemns Orthodox monopoly over religious life in maiden speech
First Reform rabbi to serve as MK says rights of ‘millions of Israelis’ violated by monopoly of Chief Rabbinate, says he will speak for Diaspora Jews in Knesset.
Rabbinate is overstepping its boundaries on conversion, divorces - opinion
I believe the Israeli Rabbinate is overstepping their boundaries especially in two areas dependent upon a personal relationship: between a rabbi and convert, and a congregant seeking a divorce.
The Chief Rabbinate's negative approach to Judaism needs to end
How else to explain that with almost every decision it makes, the rabbinate seems to prefer to turn people away from Judaism and religion, rather then embracing them.
Rabbinate reneges on recognition of foreign rabbinical courts - exclusive
After publishing a list in 2018 of Orthodox rabbinical courts in the Diaspora recognized for performing conversions and divorce, the Chief Rabbinate will again scrutinize all such processes.
