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


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.

THE BUILDING of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel in Jerusalem.

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.

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

High Court conversion ruling helps bridge Israel-Diaspora rift

Now is the time to free Israel from the choke hold of the Chief Rabbinate.

High Court of Justice May 3, 2020

High Court conversion ruling helps bridge Israel-Diaspora rift

Now is the time to free Israel from the choke hold of the Chief Rabbinate.

High Court of Justice May 3, 2020

High Court conversion ruling helps bridge Israel-Diaspora rift

Now is the time to free Israel from the choke hold of the Chief Rabbinate.

High Court of Justice May 3, 2020

High Court denies Chief Rabbinate request for panel on hametz in hospitals

The court decided on Sunday not to hold a new hearing on whether hospitals can ban patients and visitors from bringing in hametz on Passover, upholding its 2020 ruling.

‘EVEN DURING the dark days of the Holocaust, we find accounts of brave Jews who went to incredible lengths to obtain matzah.’

Herzog College: Leading the renaissance at Hechal Shlomo

TODAY, HERZOG has embarked on an ambitious restoration of Hechal Shlomo in an effort to restore it to its former glory.

Hechal Shlomo, the former headquarters of the chief rabbis of Israel, is now the home of Herzog College’s Jerusalem campus and its International Center of Jewish Heritage

Chief Rabbi Lau to Diaspora rabbis: You must vaccinate, dangerous not to

The special campaign for Israel-Diaspora relations led by Lau will continue into the next week.

Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau in a meeting with rabbis from the diaspora.

Israel’s kashrut supervision policy needs to change - opinion

While several years have passed since earlier reports, recent revelations make it clear that nothing has really changed.

REPRESENTATIVES OF the Chief Rabbinate carry kosher certificates across Jaffa Road in Jerusalem in 2019.

Life in limbo for thousands of couples unable to marry during COVID-19

Creative solutions for civil marriage during the current crisis such as weddings in foreign embassies and on boats in international waters have been proposed to alleviate the crisis

An illustrative photo of a Jewish wedding in front of the Mediterranean Sea.