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Law enforcement carries a protester away at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), during a pro-Palestinian protest on May 2, 2024.

Local rabbi among 3 people arrested in altercation at Manhattan pro-Palestinian protest

By Luke Tress/JTA

MK ARYE DERI leads a parliamentary faction meeting of his Shas party, in the Knesset, last month.

Shelving contentious law on local rabbis signals unity discourse is not all talk

Javier Milei at the Western Wall, February 6, 2024

Javier Milei's rabbi to 'Post': How the Argentinian president fell in love with Judaism

By MICHAEL STARR

An employee works at a laboratory of Bene Meat Technologies company, which is planning to scale up production of lab-grown meat for use in pet food, in Prague, Czech Republic, November 7, 2023.

Cultivated meat and kashrut: What will the Kosher status be? - opinion

By ARI Z. ZIVOTOFSKY , JOEL KENIGSBERG

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

An IDF soldier salutes the grave of a fallen soldier at the Har Herzl military cemetery ahead of Israel's Remembrance Day, April 23, 2023.

Over 15 IDF soldiers pronounced dead in Gaza without bodies

By YAKI ADAMKER , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A PHOTO which expresses the pain, fear and frustration of the plight of agunot is part of a photography exhibit of Yad La’isha.

Chief Rabbi David Lau establishes special rabbinical court to support agunot affected by war

By Yuval Barnea

People mourn rabbinical judge, Elimelech Wasserman, who was killed in a shooting attack when Hamas gunmen opened fire at a bus stop at the entrance to Jerusalem, in a hearse, ahead of the funeral in Jerusalem November 30, 2023

Senior judge in rabbinic court system named as victim in Jerusalem attack

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.

Rabbinate releases instructions for keeping Shabbat during wartime

By Yuval Barnea

Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, Shlomo Amar visits at a Yeshiva in Hispin, northern Israel, October 21, 2021.

New to Israel? Rabbis here aren't the same as they are elsewhere - opinion

By YOSEF WOLICKI

SHAS MK Erez Malul, an advocate of free late hotel checkout for Shabbat stays.

The saga of hotels’ late Shabbat and holiday checkout

By MOTTI VERSES

Kashrut certificates outside a restaurant in Jerusalem.

Kosher food in Israel is an $800 million racket of corruption - opinion

By AVRAHAM AVI-HAI

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's Chief Rabbinate has become a hereditary monarchy - opinion

By RICHARD SHAVEI-TZION

MK ARYE DERI leads a parliamentary faction meeting of his Shas party, in the Knesset, last month.

Shas are seeking to deepen their grip over state religious institutions - opinion

By DANIEL GOLDMAN

MK ARYE DERI is in a bind, says the writer. On the one hand he has the opportunity to appoint his brother as chief rabbi, but that would put him at odds with the Yosef family, his political patrons.

Israel's chief rabbi elections tainted by personal interests - opinion

The building of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel is located in Jerualem.

Is Israel taking a page out of the Hungary and Poland playbook? - analysis

By ELIAV BREUER

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

By ELIAV BREUER

THE AGPOV family with ITIM head Rabbi Seth Farber (L) after receiving Israeli citizenship at the Netanya Interior Ministry offices.

Ukrainians trying to convert to Judaism in Israel face Kafkaesque trials

By ALAN ROSENBAUM