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.
Rabbinate accused of defying court as Israeli women left waiting for exams
Rabbinate seeks retrial on ruling allowing women to take exams, blames 'halachic noncompliance'
Israelis want civil marriage, to break rabbinic monopoly in new Tu B'Av poll
Kashrut supervision so bad ‘public is being misled,’ watchdog report says
Several supervisors found to be 'working' for 24 hrs a day, one was allocated 27 hours of supervision work daily.
Local rabbinates overcharged NIS 5m. a year for mikve use
Court rules in favor of class-action suit; fines offenders NIS 230,000.
Ministry to appoint woman to be deputy director of rabbinical courts
MAVOI SATUM director Batya Kahana-Dror (above) sees the appointment of a women as deputy director of the rabbinical courts as merely the first step.
JPost Editorial: Agunot in Zion
While we applaud the High Court’s decision, the “Aguna of Safed” case raises a number of questions regarding the place of Jewish law in a state that purports to be both Jewish and democratic.
A threat to the foundations of Jewish peoplehood
Leaving issues of religion and state to an ultra-Orthodox monopoly is leading to estrangement between Israel and the Diaspora. New arrangements must be reached.
Making kashrut kosher
The danger of the Chief Rabbinate’s databases
The direction that Israel’s religious establishment is taking is worrisome, if not dangerous.
Ask The Rabbi: Does Halacha permit demolition of terrorists’ homes?
Accordingly, it is hard to say that Jewish law gives a definitive answer to this dilemma.
Grapevine: Retraining rabbis
A round-up of news from around Israel.
Rabbinical court statistics on ‘agunot’ being disputed
Women’s rights groups insist rabbis are manipulating data to claim that there are more wives refusing to accept a religious divorce than there are husbands refusing to grant one.
