Chief Rabbinate

Women Torah scholars in Israel can take accreditation exams, attorney general says

The Chief Rabbinate discriminates in not allowing them to take the qualification tests, he said.

By Marcy Oster June 30, 2020 11:08 am

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Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron, former chief rabbi of Israel, dies of COVID-19 at 79

Bakshi-Doron had expressed support for efforts to ease the Orthodox Chief Rabbinate’s monopoly over Jewish marriages.

April 13, 2020 2:33 pm

Chief rabbis worldwide launch unity Shabbat in response to coronavirus

Make this “a Shabbat of kindness, a Shabbat of prayer and a Shabbat of connection to the Divine,” they implore.

April 2, 2020 10:58 am

Videoconference seders are taboo, Israel’s Chief Rabbinate says

By Marcy Oster March 31, 2020 11:53 am

Israel’s Chief Rabbinate officially recognizes Ethiopian Beta Israel community as Jewish

By Marcy Oster January 21, 2020 10:35 am

Pope Francis, seen at a Holy Mass in Vatican City in June 2019. (Grzegorz Galazka/Archivio Grzegorz Galazka/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

Israel’s Chief Rabbinate signs interfaith document at Vatican denouncing euthanasia

By Marcy Oster October 29, 2019 8:14 am

Rabbis are making it harder for Israeli immigrants to prove they’re Jewish, study says

By Marcy Oster July 24, 2019 3:09 pm

Israeli rabbinate grants rare permission for divorced woman to marry a kohen

By Cnaan Liphshiz May 31, 2019 8:40 am

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As rabbis of all denominations, we say it is time to abolish Israel’s Chief Rabbinate

By Ruach Hiddush December 6, 2018 1:52 pm

Vatican and Israeli Chief Rabbinate preparing joint statement against euthanasia and assisted suicide

November 22, 2018 12:37 pm

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