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