Tag: Chief Rabbi

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.

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.

Goldschmidt, who has served as a rabbi in Moscow for the last 33 years, is also president of the Conference of European Rabbis.

“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."

The four are suspected of fraudulently obtaining the "competency certificate" without taking the certification exams.

The Chief Rabbi was very critical of the fact that the terrorist attacker had not been eliminated at the scene of the crime.

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.

Russia's chief rabbi also praised President Putin, who is Le Pen's strong supporter.

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.'

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.

Many, if not all these "controversial" responses by Rabbi Krim can be easily explained within the context in which they were provided.

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...

"The visit constitutes a recognition of congregations that are dangerous to the future of the Jewish nation.”

“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.”

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.

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...

How embarrassing.

Armed, masked men threatened to burn down the house of one of Ukraine’s chief rabbis.