Rabbinate
Chief Rabbinate Council sets new financial range for ketubahs
The new range aims to prevent grooms from pledging sums they cannot pay while preserving a meaningful minimum that provides wives with genuine financial protection.
ITIM organization asks High Court to bar draft evaders from Rabbinate exam benefits
High Court sets Tuesday deadline in Tzohar kashrut-license dispute
Chief Rabbinate Council disputes Tzohar kashrut approval hours after authorization
Chief Rabbi Lau to conversion judges: Ignore lies about you
"Do not heed to lies and false accusations that are being levied against you, ignore them. Your judgment is from above."
Convicted sex-offender Moti Elon relinquishes his rabbi title
"Elon was convicted of child sexual abuse, yet the Rabbinate steadfastly refused to remove his Rabbinic authority."
Agunas are 'strangled' in abusive marriages - so they protested
"The pain in my heart is deep as I remain in a state of perpetual waiting," said Rivka, 41, one of the women featured on the posters in the protest.
Supermarket chain sued after chef’s Jewish status called into doubt
The Jewish status of a chef born in Ukraine and working in the ready food department of the Yochananof supermarket chain was challenged by the store’s kashrut supervisor due to his origin.
The Israeli government's ploy to prevent marriages through consulates
This is not just an issue that concerns Israelis, for it also concerns Diaspora Jewry.
High Court gives rabbinate 90 days for solution to women’s Halacha exams
The interim ruling comes following a petition by three NGOs to the court, which argued that women are discriminated against by the state since they cannot obtain the same qualifications as men.
The 9th of Av, 1920, the promise of return and our responsibility
We, exactly 100 years later, who are undergoing our own extended tumultuous period of the Three Weeks of mourning, must remember how far historically the Jewish people have come
It's time for Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef to step up or step down
The government needs to present Yosef with a choice – either help or get out of the way.
Chief rabbi patronizes women studying halacha, says Reform Judaism is fake
Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef casts aspersions on ability of women to learn advanced Jewish law, accuses women seeking state accreditation for Torah studies of ‘imitating Reform Judaism’
‘Aguna’ – a midcourse Jewish history correction
Anecdotes are not scientific research. But these and 100 others like them define the widely held communal paradigm regarding iggun. Let us extrapolate some views:
