Files released after Freedom of Information Act request show Israel’s Chief Rabbinate consults almost exclusively with rabbis from rigidly Orthodox groups in its vetting process
The court decided on Sunday not to hold a new hearing on whether hospitals can ban patients and visitors from bringing in hametz on Passover, upholding its 2020 ruling.
A look into the heavy political clout of the haredi parties that could eventually impact the nation’s tenuous religious-secular balance.
A petition filed by a restaurant owner in Jerusalem seeks the same terms that hotels receive regarding Shabbat observance
A new campaign by the Ne’emanei Torah v’Avodah raises awareness of couple who cannot marry in Israel and find a civil solution their problem
Almost a year ago, I received an urgent phone call from a woman (let’s call her Dina), who told me that the chief rabbinate’s office had just telephoned her here in Israel. They wanted more proof of Jewishness. She had already sent out invitations for her wedding, but now they wanted proof that she was Jewish.
The Neemanei Torah Va’avodah organization, which is supported by the New Israel fund, attacked Minister Uri Ariel in the wake of the State Comptrollers claim that he transferred funds to task-oriented groups.
Op-ed: It’s time to stop fighting over the Western Wall and create ways to overcome division which cater for all sects. The holy site should be run by a public council including representatives of the relevant government ministries, public delegates representing male and female worshippers, and representatives of the Diaspora Jewry.
A “scandalous letter” in the files of Israel’s official rabbinate “reflects ignorance,” delivers “a severe blow” to Israel’s relations with Diaspora Jewry and “abandons the religious system in Israel to haredi hands.
Several organizations have expressed concern with the number of Jewish citizens marrying outside the rabbinate.
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman voiced strong support for religious women who enlist in the IDF on Monday while criticizing religious lifestyles that preclude military service and employment, focusing only on religious studies.
Two large groups of Jews at diametric odds over the fate of Jewish prayer at the Western Wall gathered at the holy site Monday morning to mark the beginning of the Hebrew month of Av, when tradition holds both the First and Second Temples were destroyed for a roster of reasons, including a lack of unity.
One of the most controversial clauses in the new protocol is one which stipulates that an officer or NCO will not necessarily be able to avoid serving in a mixed-gender units.
An aggressive campaign against joint service of men and women in combat units has been taking place in the past year on Israel streets and on social media under the slogans ‘Saving the IDF’ and ‘Stop the Madness.’ Yedioth Ahronoth uncovers people and organizations behind campaign, which was launched by anonymous group called Brothers in Arms, as well as the generous public funds received by some of these organizations.
Trump entered the men’s section of the site together with Western Wall administrator Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, while Melania and Ivanka went to the women’s section accompanied by the rabbi’s wife, Yael
Ne’emanei Torah Va’Avoda – Yisroel Chofshit
Rav Avraham Roznikov, the Rabbi of the Ichilov Hospital, has written a Responsum on this subject. Rav Roznikov identifies four reasons why Israel should adopt a more reasonable policy toward searching for chametz in hospitals prior to and during Passover. His fourth and final reason is that utensils that have absorbed the food taste of prohibited food that are then mixed with other utensils are considered to be kosher according to the legal principal of following after the majority status. This means, that in a case when a suspect utensil was mixed up with other utensils, the suspect utensil is considered to be nullified among the majority. We are not obligated to then purify all of the utensils because of the minority, but they are all considered kosher. In addition there is the halachic principal of kli shlishi (the third utensil). Jewish law distinguishes between the pot that cooks the food on the fire to the utensils in which the food is transferred after that fact.
For this reason and others food can be eaten on the utensils in the hospital and the hospital can clean the dishes with other utensils on Passover without concern for minority cases.
ERUSALEM (JTA) — An internal correspondence document written by a senior member of Israel’s Rabbinical Courts rejects the authority of all rabbis who receive their ordination from a yeshiva located in New York.
Read more: https://forward.com/news/401945/liberal-orthodox-rabbis-rejected-by-israel-rabbinate/
Four division commanders were appointed in the latest round of promotions and appointments, which are made approximately every year.
Treasury-Rabbinate plan would spin off day-to-day supervision to regional monopolies answerable to local chief rabbi
An internal correspondence document from the Rabbinical Courts, written in March 2018, and published by ITIM today (Monday), reveals that despite the Rabbinate’s consistent public declaration that there are no “blacklists” for recognition of rabbis abroad, the Rabbinical Courts continue to reject the halachic authority of at least one hundred and twenty four Orthodox rabbis in the United States. Today, in a meeting of the Knesset’s Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs, the Chief Rabbinate’s Director, Moshe Dagan, vociferously denied the existence of any such blacklists
