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Israel / Jewish / News Briefs

Israel’s Chief Rabbis Implement the Prozbul Ahead of Rosh Hashana

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Prozbul is a halachic regulation designed to allow the collection of loans that were made during the Sabbatical year.

Haredim & Hassidim / Politics / Religious & Secular in Israel / Religion / Judaism / Local

Tzohar and Rabbinate Collaborate on Marriage in Tel Aviv

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

“This will allow us to positively contribute to helping these couples build healthy new relationships and families in accordance with Halacha and the laws of the State of Israel."

Featured / Israel / Judaism

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu Chastises Tzohar Rabbi for Not Fact-Checking Before Criticizing Him

By Jewish Press News Desk

Rabbi Eliyahu pointed out the troubling facts which were the basis for his statement against "Hashgacha Pratit."

Featured / Politics / Judaism

Tzohar Senior Rabbi Denounces Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu over 'Libel'

By JNi.Media

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu accused a private kashrut organization of ignoring the sale of meat slaughtered in an Arab village to Jerusalem restaurants under their supervision.

Israel / Police and Crime / Religion

4 Fake Rabbis under House Arrest

By JNi.Media

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

Featured / Headline / Haredim & Hassidim / Politics / The Courts / Religious & Secular in Israel / Religion / Judaism

44 Orthodox Rabbis Attack Tzohar Prenuptial Get: If You Support It You're Not Orthodox

By JNi.Media

The state of mind of a husband who signed the Tzohar prenuptial agreement may be affected by the financial consequences to the point where his get may not be given in a purely voluntary manner.

Featured / Jewish / Government / Aliyah / Geulah

Israel's Chief Rabbi Apologizes to NBN's Rabbi Yehoshua Fass

By Jewish Press Staff

Rabbi Fass expressed his hope that the matter will be resolved, and that a healing process will begin to develop between the Chief Rabbinate and Rabbinic leaders across the world.  

Featured / US / Politics / Government / Religious & Secular in Israel / Religion / Assimilation

Netanyahu to AIPAC: My Choice Was between Reform Kotel and Government Collapse

By JNi.Media

Both of Netanyahu's decisions caused a storm and created a rift with Diaspora Jews, most emphatically in the US.

Featured / Jewish / Politics / The Courts / Religious & Secular in Israel

High Court Bars Business Owners from Paying Kashrut Inspectors' Wages

By JNi.Media

The kashrut supervisors union strongly opposes the reform, fearing that an open and transparent pay method would adversely affect their income.

Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo

The Chief Rabbinate and Its Disgrace: Who Is an Exceptionally Great Sage?

By Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo

The Talmud teaches only when making a sincere effort to reduce the pain of fellow human beings can one be called a great person! Those who do follow this approach are unsuited to be religious leaders

Haredim & Hassidim / Politics / Police and Crime / The Courts / News Briefs / Religious & Secular in Israel

On Eve of 3.5-Year Prison Term Former Chief Rabbi Invited to Speak at 'Honor of the Rabbinate' Conference

By JNi.Media

The first item in Metzger's original indictment (before the plea bargain) accused him of selling conversion certificates in exchange for bribes.

The Walter Bingham File

The Walter Bingham File - The Spying Game and Extremists Inciting Our Youth Is Wrong

By Israel News Talk Radio

Israel is the target of secret surveillance by so-called friendly intelligence organizations.

Jewish / Politics / Government / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Religion

Finance Minister Exposing Fresh Meat Market to Foreign Competition

By JNi.Media

For the duration of the next year, the quota for duty-free fresh meat imports will be doubled.

Jewish / Politics / Government / The Courts / News Briefs / The Knesset / Religious & Secular in Israel / Aliyah / Geulah

Knesset Passes Law Assigning Running State Mikvahs to Chief Rabbinate

By JNi.Media

"Reform Jews in the US don’t have a single mikvah. All of a sudden they need a mikvah over here?"

Haredim & Hassidim / Politics / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Religious & Secular in Israel / Judaism

Chief Rabbinate: Good Bye, Mikvah Lady

By JNi.Media

Orthodox authorities are concerned not only about the proper execution of the halakhic dipping, but also about the push to permit unmarried women to dip, which the rabbis view as an invitation to lechery.

Haredim & Hassidim / Politics / Government / The Courts / News Briefs / The Knesset / Religious & Secular in Israel / Judaism

Likely Compromise Found in Coalition Rift over Reform, Conservative Mikvahs

By JNi.Media

Last week, a Knesset committee debated a bill proposed by two ultra-Orthodox coalition partners determining that use of public mikvahs will be conducted strictly according to halakha.

Politics / Police and Crime / Government / The Courts / News Briefs / Religious & Secular in Israel / Judaism

High Court Sides with Rabbinate, Rejects AG Push for 'Alternative' Kosher Certificates

By JNi.Media

MK Bezalel Smotrich (Habayit Hayehudi) said it was "refreshing to see a conservative approach on the part of the Supreme Court."

News Briefs / Religious & Secular in Israel / Judea & Samaria / Religion

Rabbi Riskin Delivers Harsh Criticism of Chief Rabbinate

By Jewish Press News Desk

In his first public comments following the tenure extension crisis, Rabbi Riskin delivered up some harsh criticism of the Chief Rabbinate.

Israel / Jewish / Politics / News Briefs / Religion

Statement from the Office of Rabbi Shlomo Riskin

By Jewish Press News Desk

Rabbi Riskin is pleased and honored to continue to serve the residents of Efrat...

The Yishai Fleisher Show on JewishPress.com

Rabbi Riskin on Tension with the Chief Rabbinate, and Rabbi Feuer on the Priestly Blessing

By Moshe Herman

Shlomo Riskin, chief rabbi and co-founder of the Judean settlement of Efrat, rubs Israel's Chief Rabbinate the wrong way. His liberal stance on conversion, women's involvement in religious rites and other issues is now causing the rabbinate to threaten not to renew his contract, as he has turned 75. A slew of rabbis and public officials have come out in support of his continued tenure. Riskin joins Yishai to discuss his relations with the Chief Rabbinate and his positions on Jewish law. Then, in this week's Torah portion in the Book of Numbers, "Naso," God gives direction to the Jewish priests on how to bless the Jewish people: "May God light His face unto you." But does God really have a face? In preparation for Shabbat, Rabbi Mike Feuer joins Yishai to discuss the Priestly blessing, the Nazarite and the seemingly repetitive offerings of the tribe leaders.

Government / News Briefs / Religious & Secular in Israel / Judaism

Modified Conversion Bill Goes To Cabinet Instead and Approved

By Tzvi Zucker / Tazpit News Agency

After much political backroom dealing, a highly controversial conversion bill was enacted by Cabinet decision, instead of becoming law through Knesset vote.

Jewish / US / News Briefs / Jerusalem / Religion

Israel Hotels Attracting Tourists with OU Kosher Certification

By Jewish Press News Desk

Israeli restaurants and hotels are more interested n seeking kosher certification from the American-based Orthodox Union (OU) in order to attract foreign tourists, according to the Kosher Today newsletter. It said that many American Jewish tourists generally are more familiar with the OU than Israeli rabbinic certifications. The OU operates in Israel in an office […]

Jewish / US / News Briefs / Jerusalem / Religious & Secular in Israel / Religion

Netanyahu Approves Egalitarian Section at Western Wall

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The women win a battle, but the question is, “Do they want a war they might lose?” Netanyahu approves Sharansky’s plan for women to pray like men in an “egalitarian” section at the Western Wall.

The Muqata

Shas's Attacks on the Jewish Home and Religious Equality

By Jameel@Muqata

Torah will probably flourish more with Shas out of the government and hopefully the Chief Rabbinate will revert back to a Rabbinate for all of Israel.

Politics / News Briefs / Religious & Secular in Israel / Religion

Lapid: Let Conservatives and Reform in

By Jewish Press Staff

The (Conservative) Rabbinical Assembly shares remarks, photos from Yair Lapid’s address to its 2012 convention.

Serials

Persuaded - Chapter VIII

By Barbara Bensoussan

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