Israeli rabbinate

Chief Rabbinate Council disputes Tzohar kashrut approval hours after authorization

“The approval was granted unlawfully and did not go through the Chief Rabbinate Council as required,” Director General of the Ministry of Religious Services Yehuda Avidan said.

A Tzohar kashrut sticker in a window
Three women who arrived in the morning to sit the Rabbinate exams finally do so at a four-hour delay, April 27, 2026

Rabbinate accused of defying court as Israeli women left waiting for exams

SUPREME COURT Justice Noam Sohlberg attends a ceremony for fallen Israeli soldiers whose burial place is unknown at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on March 6.

Rabbinate seeks retrial on ruling allowing women to take exams, blames 'halachic noncompliance'

 Ten Israeli couples with a member serving in the IDF taking part in a mass wedding ceremony part of Chabad of Savyon’s “Marrying the Warriors”, in Tel Aviv Port, March 5, 2024.

Israelis want civil marriage, to break rabbinic monopoly in new Tu B'Av poll


Foreign ministry apologizes for widely panned 'alternative marriages' vid

“I think we erred, we made a mistake,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said in an Army Radio interview.

A couple stands underneath a ‘huppa’ during their secular wedding ceremony in Tel Aviv.

Internal Affairs Committee calls for regulating bridal guidance programs

To illustrate issues with the bridal guidance programs, they cited instances of women being told to treat their husbands as kings if they wish to be queens, and to share previous sexual experiences.

A wedding in Israel

Divorce refuser who scandalized Knesset finally grants divorce

Attias was instructed by the Haifa Rabbinical Court to give his wife a divorce two years ago but has refused until now.

File photo: Divorce.

Leaked letter: Chief Rabbinate blacklisted dozens of U.S. Orthodox rabbis

Credentials of 124 rabbis ordained by Orthodox NY institution Yeshivat Chovevei Torah were ostensibly rejected by the Chief Rabbinate and Rabbinical Courts.

A man wears a kippa embroidered with US and Israeli flags

A mohel reflects: Blood on all our hands

The rabbinate should be an institution committed to professional development and support for mohalim.

A ‘MOHEL’ holds a scalpel as he performs a circumcision

Many municipal chief rabbis spending hundreds of days abroad, report finds

Such appointments contravene ministry regulations since they constitute a conflict of interests for the rabbi should he have to take disciplinary action against his relative.

An Israeli flag is seen on the first of Israel's El Al Airlines order of 16 Boeing 787 Dreamliner jets, as it lands at Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, Israel August 23, 2017. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

As good as Jew

"It’s extremely distressing that Israel, supposedly the de facto homeland for all Jews, is controlled exclusively by the Orthodox rabbinate, which discriminates against non-Orthodox rabbis..."

Women in Hitech as percent of the EmployeesRabbi Floriane Chinsky with tefllin and tallit

Would-be converts must marry or leave partners, Knesset committee told

The practice has been called "coercive and unfair."

Tania Beider in 2018

WATCH: Orthodox rabbis speak out against the Rabbinate

Why are Orthodox rabbis against Israel's central religious authority?

Haredi men hold on to their hats on a windy day in Jerusalem

Recent trend shows Jewish marriage on the wane in Israel

Several organizations have expressed concern with the number of Jewish citizens marrying outside the rabbinate.

A couple stands underneath a ‘huppa’ during their secular wedding ceremony in Tel Aviv.