Chief rabbi

Inheriting moral instincts: How choices become a legacy – opinion

Our descendants absorb what we choose to do in times of crisis: they act based on what they watched us forgive, defend, and risk for others.

A rabbi blows a shoat ahead of Yom Kippur at the Western Wall in Jerusalem in 2026.
REUVEN WABASHAT, Israel’s chief rabbi of the Ethiopian community, is seen in Jerusalem in 2018.

Could an Ethiopian Israeli become prime minister, president, or chief rabbi? - opinion

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Axelrod, Chief Rabbi of the Republic of Moldova.

Moldova hires first chief rabbi in 12 years, new chapter for revived Jewish community - interview

KASHRUT CERTIFICATION at a Jerusalem eatery – will the rabbinate’s monopoly be broken?

Knesset repeals 2021 kashrut reform, restores Rabbinate control over certification


UAE chief Chabad rabbi married in the Gulf's largest Jewish wedding

The UAE's Chief Rabbi Levi Duchman opened the doors of his wedding to Lea Hadad, to turn the event into a mutual celebration of the second anniversary of the Abraham Accords.

 Rabbi Levi Duchman and bride Lea at their wedding.

Netanyahu meets with Ukraine Chief Rabbi, promises to help end war if reelected

Netanyahu filmed a short statement along with Rabbi Reuven Asman, speaking about how he intends to act regarding the Russian-Ukrainian war if he wins the upcoming elections.

 Screenshot from video of former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Rabbi Reuven Asman, one of Ukraine's Chief Rabbis.

Meet Jacob Herzog, Saudi Arabia's self-proclaimed chief rabbi

Rabbi Herzog, a 46-year-old American-Israeli rabbi who made aliyah from the US as a child, thought of traveling to Saudi Arabia only four years ago.

 RABBI JACOB HERZOG with cleric Sheik Ahmed Bin Qasim al-Ghamdi, who pledged to fight vice and instead became an advocate against gender segregation.

Moscow's chief rabbi of 29 years loses post amid exile from Russia

“I am leaving a community in distress. But from the outside, I will do my utmost to help my beloved community,” Pinchas Goldschmidt said.

 Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt delivers a speech in Paris, France, Oct. 10, 2018.

Sephardi chief rabbi on Ben-Gvir: Stay away from him

Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef spoke out against MK Itamar Ben-Gvir's visits to the Temple Mount, claiming that he desecrates God's name by going there.

 Religious Zionist Party MK Itamar Ben Gvir at the Temple Mount on Jerusalem Day, May 29, 2022.

Turkey's chief rabbi to Israelis: Keep visiting despite security risk

In an interview with The Jerusalem Post, Hakham Bashi (Chief Rabbi) Ishak Haleva said Israelis should feel at home in Turkey, contradicting repeated warnings by Foreign Minister Yair Lapid.

 The flags of Turkey and Israel are flown as President Isaac Herzog makes a state visit to Turkey, March 9, 2022.

UK chief rabbi: Prayer services don’t need to last for three hours

UK chief rabbi outlines the way synagogues need to function in a post-COVID world.

 RABBI EPHRAIM MIRVIS attends the Association of Jewish ex-Servicemen and Women annual remembrance parade and ceremony in London in November.

Israeli chief rabbis: Don’t overrule Moscow’s chief rabbi

Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt is currently in Israel but is overseeing his community from afar. Israel's chief rabbis wrote to Russian Jewish authorities to keep it that way.

 President of the Conference of European Rabbis Pinchas Goldschmidt talks during an interview with Reuters in Vienna, Austria, May 31, 2016.

UK chief rabbi wrote unique prayer for Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

In February, Queen Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee.

Britain's chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis

Court bars chief rabbi from appointing judges - report

The decision was motivated by Lau's recent move to promote his brother-in-law to a senior post in the Jerusalem Regional Court.

 ASHKENAZI CHIEF Rabbi David Lau.