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 PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG sits with the incoming chief rabbis, Ashkenazi Rabbi Kalman Ber (right) and Sephardic Rabbi David Yosef, at their swearing-in ceremony at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem earlier this month.

A historic opportunity for the chief rabbis

Israeli president Isaac Herzog at “The Presidential Award for Civilian Heroism”, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on October 30, 2024.

Herzog, grandson of Israel’s first Chief Rabbi Inaugurates current Chief Rabbis

 FINANCE MINISTER Bezalel Smotrich speaks at a news conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, last week.

'He just hates women': Smotrich-backed chief rabbi nom. faces controversy over child support policy

By BINI ASHKENAZI
 CELEBRATING SIYUM HASHAS, the completion of the ‘Daf Yomi,’ a seven-and-a-half-year cycle of studying the Talmud, at Har Etzion Yeshiva.

This week in Jewish history: The start of the IDF draft and the Daf Yomi cycle

By Steven Drucker
 The inauguration ceremony of Rabbi Yoni Wieder as chief rabbi of Ireland was held at the Dublin Hebrew Synagogue, May 21, 2024.

At 28, Ireland’s new chief rabbi is leading an aging population in a time of turmoil

By SHIRA LI BARTOV/JTA
 An illustrative image of a cannon firing.

It's time for a revolutionary rabbi to come save Judaism from self-destructing

 ‘THERE IS only one way to change the world, and that is through education,’ wrote the late UK chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks.

Education as the key to Jewish resilience and global impact

By CHAYA YOSOVICH
A court hearing on the government's drafting of yeshiva students for the IDF, at the High Court of Justice in Jerusalem on June 2, 2024

Chief Rabbi election must be held by September 30, High Court rules

 Then chief rabbi Israel Meir Lau takes part in the Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem in 2022.

Grapevine: Rabbi Herzog, holy rescuer

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef speaks during the funeral of Yehuda Deri, the chief rabbi of Beersheba, in Jerusalem, July 9, 2024

New interim chief rabbi appointed, previous resigned over inclusion of female rabbis

 END OF AN ERA: Israel’s two chief rabbis conclude their tenure, leaving their positions vacant. (Dalle-E)

Editor's Notes: Chief rabbis retire but did anybody notice?

 ASHKENAZI CHIEF Rabbi David Lau (left) and Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef: The silence of our two chief rabbis is thunderously indicative of the abject state of these once meaningful and relevant positions, the writer argues.

Israel no longer has chief rabbis after ministry fails to hold timely elections

'Spiritual support' to the military: Kyiv chief rabbi meets with senior Ukrainian officers

 Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt

Exiled chief rabbi: Russia neglects terror threat by focusing on repression

By REUTERS
 Demonstrators hold signs in support of Palestine, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, during a ‘Stand Together’ solidarity march against war, hate and racism, in Dublin, Ireland, March 2, 2024.

Irish chief rabbi: 'Ireland is one of the most anti-Zionist states in the West'

 ASHKENAZI CHIEF Rabbi David Lau (left) and Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef: The silence of our two chief rabbis is thunderously indicative of the abject state of these once meaningful and relevant positions, the writer argues.

The Chief Rabbinate office is rife with nepotism, affecting Israeli society

 Rabbi Meir Kahane, Religious Zionist candidate for Chief Rabbi poses for a picture in Jerusalem, on June 7, 2023. Uploaded on 28/5/2024

Position for Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi reopens as Rabbinical Committee withdraws candidate

By YAKI ADAMKER/WALLA!
 Knesset speaker Amir Ohana (left) and Jerusalem Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar (right.

Jerusalem chief rabbi refuses to shake gay Knesset speaker's hand

By YAKI ADAMKER