Israeli rabbinate

Rabbinate seeks retrial on ruling allowing women to take exams, blames 'halachic noncompliance'

The Rabbinate's argument rested on what it presented as firm halachic noncompliance with women taking the exams, as certain topics covered therein are prohibited by nature.

SUPREME COURT Justice Noam Sohlberg attends a ceremony for fallen Israeli soldiers whose burial place is unknown at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on March 6.
 Ten Israeli couples with a member serving in the IDF taking part in a mass wedding ceremony part of Chabad of Savyon’s “Marrying the Warriors”, in Tel Aviv Port, March 5, 2024.

Israelis want civil marriage, to break rabbinic monopoly in new Tu B'Av poll

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef speaks during the funeral of Yehuda Deri, the chief rabbi of Beersheba, in Jerusalem, July 9, 2024

New interim chief rabbi appointed, previous resigned over inclusion of female rabbis

 ASHKENAZI CHIEF Rabbi David Lau (left) and Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef: The silence of our two chief rabbis is thunderously indicative of the abject state of these once meaningful and relevant positions, the writer argues.

Israel no longer has chief rabbis after ministry fails to hold timely elections


Divorce refuser who scandalized Knesset finally grants divorce

Attias was instructed by the Haifa Rabbinical Court to give his wife a divorce two years ago but has refused until now.

File photo: Divorce.

Leaked letter: Chief Rabbinate blacklisted dozens of U.S. Orthodox rabbis

Credentials of 124 rabbis ordained by Orthodox NY institution Yeshivat Chovevei Torah were ostensibly rejected by the Chief Rabbinate and Rabbinical Courts.

A man wears a kippa embroidered with US and Israeli flags

A mohel reflects: Blood on all our hands

The rabbinate should be an institution committed to professional development and support for mohalim.

A ‘MOHEL’ holds a scalpel as he performs a circumcision

Many municipal chief rabbis spending hundreds of days abroad, report finds

Such appointments contravene ministry regulations since they constitute a conflict of interests for the rabbi should he have to take disciplinary action against his relative.

An Israeli flag is seen on the first of Israel's El Al Airlines order of 16 Boeing 787 Dreamliner jets, as it lands at Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, Israel August 23, 2017. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

As good as Jew

"It’s extremely distressing that Israel, supposedly the de facto homeland for all Jews, is controlled exclusively by the Orthodox rabbinate, which discriminates against non-Orthodox rabbis..."

Women in Hitech as percent of the EmployeesRabbi Floriane Chinsky with tefllin and tallit

Would-be converts must marry or leave partners, Knesset committee told

The practice has been called "coercive and unfair."

Tania Beider in 2018

WATCH: Orthodox rabbis speak out against the Rabbinate

Why are Orthodox rabbis against Israel's central religious authority?

Haredi men hold on to their hats on a windy day in Jerusalem

Recent trend shows Jewish marriage on the wane in Israel

Several organizations have expressed concern with the number of Jewish citizens marrying outside the rabbinate.

A couple stands underneath a ‘huppa’ during their secular wedding ceremony in Tel Aviv.

A rabbinical dynasty

"They have a deep faith, as a moral compass, but they don’t understand what has turned Judaism into what they see as a dark and oppressive way of expressing it"

At the ceremony marking the 100th ordination of a graduate from Hebrew Union College’s Israeli Reform rabbinical program

‘Campaign of persecution’ against independent kashrut

“These fines are not actually fines, but rather extortion via threats."

Kosher certificates