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 A WEDDING is conducted by Chuppot Rabbi Chuck Davidson.

Israelis seek alternatives to Chief Rabbinate as elections approach

By RIVKA ARBIV
 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.

Uproar over bill intended to increase religious party's control over rabbinical establishment

 Letters

Letters to the Editor June 10, 2024: Existential threats

ISRAEL’S CHIEF Rabbinate Council, 1959. At its helm sit Ashkenazi chief Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog (center, at left) and Sephardi chief Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim (at right).

Religious Services Minister agrees to appoint ten women to Chief Rabbinate Electoral Assembly

 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!
 Arye Deri and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, attend  a Shas Party faction meeting, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on January 23, 2023.

Mayors demand that gov't drop plan to take over appointments of city rabbis

 Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, Benny Gantz, head of National Unity, and opposition lawmaker Gideon Saar look on as lawmakers gather at the Knesset plenum to vote on a bill that would limit some Supreme Court power, in Jerusalem July 24, 2023.

Gantz, Sa'ar clash with rest of coalition over legislative veto power

 Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef speaks during a ceremony of the Israeli police for the Jewish new year at the National Headquarters of the Israel Police in Jerusalem on September 22, 2022.

The Chief Rabbi's comments: Tone deaf and damaging - comment

 THE WRITER converses with students in the Midreshet Lindenbaum Beit Midrash in Jerusalem.

It's time to acknowledge women's Torah knowledge

By DEVORAH EVRON
 A WOMAN seeking divorce in a ‘beit din’ was the sole female in the room until the advent of ‘toanot.’ (Illustrative)

High Court rules: Women can be on committee to select Chief Rabbi

 Rabbi Yaakov Rose of ZAKA Tel Aviv examining the cars with remains in southern Israel

This is why Israel plans to bury hundreds of cars, with ashes and blood stains

 Alina Falahati, 21, who was murdered on October 7 and buried 'outside the fence' due to her halachic status (she had not completed the conversion process to Judaism.)

Israelis killed on October 7 denied Jewish burials due to halachic status

 MK Dvora Biton taken out by Knesset guards during a a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting on the planned judicial reform, at the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem on June 25, 2023

'Wombs for rent': Opposition MK decries the lack of female reps on religious councils

 Itamar Ben Gvir, Minister of National Security and head of the Otzma Yehudit political party gives a press statement during a party meeting in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, May 3, 2023.

Shas, Otzma Yehudit face off over controversial Chief Rabbinate bills

 A WOMAN walks past a Jerusalem eatery with a Tzohar kashrut certificate.

High Court overturns Chief Rabbinate ban on Tzohar kashrut for imports

 ASHKENAZI CHIEF Rabbi David Lau and Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef at an event in Jerusalem earlier this year. Who is lining up to replace them?

Chief Rabbinate election delay bill passes first reading