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A Haredi rabbi with links to the Religious Zionism movement, he won the second round by a vote of 77-58.
The High Court instructed the assembly to meet by September 30.
The Chief Rabbinate has jurisdiction over issues of personal status, such as marriage, divorce and conversions, as well as burials, kosher certification, holy sites, and rabbinical courts.
The mountain has been especially targeted by Hezbollah rockets and drones due to a nearby military base.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Pope gets it wrong again.
Prozbul is a halachic regulation designed to allow the collection of loans that were made during the Sabbatical year.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Goldschmidt, who has served as a rabbi in Moscow for the last 33 years, is also president of the Conference of European Rabbis.
By Hanan Greenwood / Israel Hayom
“We call on the religious services minister to not heed the uninfluential rabbis, to wake up,” says Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef.
Rabbi Eliyahu pointed out the troubling facts which were the basis for his statement against "Hashgacha Pratit."
By JNi.Media
The four are suspected of fraudulently obtaining the "competency certificate" without taking the certification exams.
By JNi.Media
The Chief Rabbi was very critical of the fact that the terrorist attacker had not been eliminated at the scene of the crime.
By Elli Fischer
When Uri Regev spins Rabbi Amar's statements to mean the Rabbi aspires to see all Reform Jews dead, he, too, is engaging in the same sort of grandiose and cynical populism of Korah.
The Rabbi's health has taken a turn for the worse.
'The only way to know those facts is real shimush, seeing what is actually happening in the field.'
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The first item in Metzger's original indictment (before the plea bargain) accused him of selling conversion certificates in exchange for bribes.
Meretz LGBTQ activists leave their mark on the Jerusalem Rabbinate.
Jerusalem Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat saying Selichot.
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Many, if not all these "controversial" responses by Rabbi Krim can be easily explained within the context in which they were provided.
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The Bennett solution resolves the conflict in a peaceful way, which is not something the Reform and Conservative movements want.
Israel's Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau (R), Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef (2L), and Israeli Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon sell the Chametz (food containing leavening) of the state of Israel to Arab Israeli Mr. Jaber (L) before the upcoming Passover holiday, April 21, 2016.
By JNi.Media
"The visit constitutes a recognition of congregations that are dangerous to the future of the Jewish nation.”
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“It is prohibited to leave an attacker alive after an attack. If you leave alive — there’s a chance that he would be released and kill more people.”
By Moshe Herman
Yishai is joined in-studio by Momo Lifshitz, the CEO of Lirom Global Education and former director of Oranim Educational Initiatives, the #1 provider of Birthright Israel participants. He shares his dream to bring Jewish and non-Jewish students to study in Israel and get a college degree at a great price, while falling in love with -- and in -- the country. Then, Yishai is joined in-studio by Rabbi Avichai Rontzki, former IDF chief rabbi (2006-2010), with the rank of Brigadier General. During his post, Rontzki carried out a mini-revolution in the command, expanding his mandate to allow for a much more active role of rabbis in the army, and creating the "Jewish Awareness Department," which conducts educational activities in combat units.
Rabbi Rontzki began his IDF career as a special forces commando and 41 years later ended it as Chief Rabbi and Brigadier General.
Ramallah is encouraged by Obama’s implicit policy that Jews in eastern Jerusalem are “illegitimate.”
Israel's Chief Rabbis give ruling exempting IDF soldiers from fasting on Tisha B'Av.
By JTA
A chief rabbi of the Netherlands said unidentified individuals hurled stones at his home in what he said was the second anti-Semitic attack on him in a week. Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs said the latest attack took place at 5 a.m. Thursday, when two stones were hurled through a window of his home in Amersfoort. An earlier incident outside his home […]
By JTA
Armed, masked men threatened to burn down the house of one of Ukraine’s chief rabbis.
Chief Rabbi David Lau said has urged Jerusalem families to open their doors and host drivers and passengers stranded in the mammoth snowstorm that has closed highways out of the city and buried the capital under 18 inches of snow. He also said that efforts to rescue people stranded on highways must continue during Shabbat, […]
An Israel court has released former Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger from jail but ordered him under house arrest with a bond of nearly $425,000. The court in Rishon LeTzion, south of Tel Aviv, told the rabbi not to leave the country or talk to the media for six months. Besides facing charges of bribery […]
Police said on Thursday they have solid evidence that former Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger offered an apartment and cash to someone in return for his not spilling the beans to the police about the rabbis’ alleged offenses. Rabbi Metzger was arrested this week on charges of pocketing millions of dollars that were intended for […]
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, former Chief Rabbi of the UK, will join the faculties of Yeshiva University and New York University
The gigantic contribution of Rav Ovadia to Israel cannot be measured, but one indication is the 850,000 people who attended his funeral and a huge number who did not come, knowing there was no room for many more.
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, former Chief Sephardic Rabbi and the spiritual leader of the Shas Sephardi party, is in the Intensive Care Unit of Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, where he is being treated for an infection. He is conscious but is breathing with the help of a respirator. “Rav Ovadia,” as he is popularly known, had […]
On Sunday, Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis was appointed as the United Kingdom's new chief rabbi. Rabbi Mirvis is the Britain's 11th chief rabbi. Besides being a congregational rabbi, Rabbi Mirvis previously served as the chief rabbi of Ireland from 1985 to 1992. Rabbi Mirvis was born in South Africa in 1956. He moved to Israel in […]
Britain's chief rabbi, Lord Sacks, is blaming British Prime Minister David Cameron for failing to do enough to boost marriages in the UK, and saying multiculturalism in Britain has "had its day," The Times reported. Rabbi Sacks said Cameron should recognize marriage in the tax system and do more to support stay at home mothers. […]
Rabbi Ratzon Arusi withdrew his candidacy for Chief Sephardi Rabbi, one hour before balloting began Wednesday afternoon. His withdrawal leaves three candidates in the race. On Tuesday, Be’er Sheva Chief Rabbi Yehuda Deri and Jerusalem Rabbinical Court head Rabbi Eliyahu Abergel quit the race. The remaining candidates are Hazon Ovadia yeshiva Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef, son […]
Tonight we may no who the two chief rabbis are, and it might very well be the last time there are two instead of one.
Attorney General Weinstein told Tzfat Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu that the courts probably would not allow him to be Chief Sephardi Rabbi have not dissuaded him from continuing his campaign for the post. Weinstein wrote the rabbi that his controversial statements, such as, “Must I explain why I am against mixed marriages?, “a number of serial […]
By JTA
Poland’s chief rabbi said he will resign if a definitive ban on kosher slaughter is imposed in the country. “I cannot imagine serving as chief rabbi in a country in which the rights of the Jewish religion are curtailed, as I would not be able then to serve properly my coreligionists,” Rabbi Michael Schudrich wrote […]
After much jockeying and infighting, it appears that Shas has finally chosen its candidate for Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel. Among the candidates were former Chief Rabbi, Rav Ovadia Yosef's two sons, as well as Shas leader Arieh Deri's brother, and the brother of Shas MK Ariel Attias. In the end Shas chose Rav Ovadiah's […]
By JTA
Shas party’s spiritual leader and former Chief Sephardi Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is recovering from major back surgery at Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center in Jerusalem following the procedure on his spine the previous day. Yosef, 93, was scheduled to be transferred out of the intensive care unit on Tuesday. He was admitted to the hospital […]
By Meir Indor
Why would you expect the leaders of the Jewish Home to listen to rabbis who didn’t get them elected?
The Jewish Home (HaBayit HaYehudi) party will be meeting Sunday afternoon to officially (and finally) announce their support for Rav Stav as Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi. The decision was made after it became clear that the law that would allow Rav Ariel to run, was not going to pass. Rav Ariel is the preferred choice for […]
The election of the next chief rabbis will take place after the 19th Knesset is convened.
Some of the supervised, ‘bug-free,’ leafy vegetable growers are using higher levels of pesticides than allowed by Health Ministry standards.
Rabbi Meir Lau, Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv and Holocaust Survivor, attacked the Germans today with harsh words. Rabbi Lau said, "We don't need their permission to live as Jews," and added that, "I didn't see such German sensitivity to Jewish blood in the Shoah."
By Tzvi Fishman
As the first wave of bombers reached the shores of Tel Aviv, a wall of rain clouds appeared in the sky. Jerusalem vanished in an impenetrable fog. In the lead French bomber, the dials on the instrument panel were spinning wildly in circles. The mysterious fog darkened the cockpit. An unworldly thunder shook the plane like a toy. The terrified pilot tried to swing the giant bomber around, but the steering was jammed.
June 26, 2026 
