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 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

 A MARCH from Ramat Gan to Bnei Brak in protest of the haredi community’s monetary demands for the upcoming budget, last month.

'Being a Nation State': Evolution of Israel's Jewish, democratic balance - review

By GLENN C. ALTSCHULER
 THEN-JEWISH AGENCY CHAIRMAN Natan Sharansky speaks at a protest held outside the Chief Rabbinate in Jerusalem, in 2016. The signs read ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’ and ‘Judaism without coercion.’

Editor's Notes: Love the convert

THE HEADQUARTERS of the Chief Rabbinate in Jerusalem, as seen here in 2013.

Diaspora Rabbis: Change age limit for candidates for Chief Rabbi

Police vehicles

Arrest of Chief Rabbinate official suspected of sexual assault extended