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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

Rabbi Kalman Bar

Rabbi Kalman Bar appointed new Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi

By ELIAV BREUER , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A WEDDING is conducted by Chuppot Rabbi Chuck Davidson.

Israelis seek alternatives to Chief Rabbinate as elections approach

Ten Israeli couples with a member serving in the IDF taking part in a mass wedding ceremony part of Chabad of Savyon’s “Marrying the Warriors”, in Tel Aviv Port, March 5, 2024.

In light of Tu B'Av: Israelis want civil marriage, to break rabbinic monopoly

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

The writer meets with President Isaac Herzog, then serving as Jewish Agency chairman, in 2020, holding a discussion on the subject of rabbinic heritage.

Navigating rabbinical ordination and leadership in Israel’s modern context - opinion

By ELI FRIEDMAN

RABBI HERZL Hefter: ‘If the Torah can’t be in the world in a real way, then it has failed.’

This Jerusalem beit midrash ordains women as Orthodox rabbis

By ALAN ROSENBAUM

ARYE DERI, head of the Shas Party, leads a faction meeting in the Knesset this week.

Arye Deri and his party threaten Israeli democracy

By TAMAR URIEL-BEERI

SMOKE RISES following Israeli strikes in Rafah. While the government could get the IDF to drag out the operation in Rafah for an extra week or two, it won’t be able to do that for long, the writer argues.

Without a plan from the government, IDF gains in Gaza will be lost

Shas leader MK Arye Deri and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on January 23, 2023

Israeli coalition in turmoil after Netanyahu drops controversial 'Rabbi Law'

By ELIAV BREUER

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu attends the debate and vote on legislation regarding haredi enlistment in the military, in the Knesset plenum, last week.

Attempts to pass the 'Rabbi Law' show how disconnected the government is

By JPOST EDITORIAL

MK Zvi Sukkot reacts during a conference on the recognition of the State of Palestine at the Knesset, on June 4, 2024

Following MK opposition to new 'Rabbis Law,' Netanyahu announces bill out of daily order

By ELIAV BREUER

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!

Letters

Letters to the Editor, May 24 2024: Yes we do

By LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Israel's chief rabbis seen as a playing card in this AI-made illustration

Two rabbis too many? A look at Israel's confusing chief rabbi system

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