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.

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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.

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.

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Videoconference seders are taboo, Israel’s Chief Rabbinate says

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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