I Have No Chief Rabbi https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/uncategorized/2013/08/i-have-no-chief-rabbi/

August 6, 2013 | Yossi Klein Halevi
About the author: Yossi Klein Halevi is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He is author of the New York Times bestseller Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor, and Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist, which tells the story of his involvement in the Soviet Jewry movement.

Despite the ultra-Orthodox stranglehold on the chief rabbinate, religious pluralism in Israel is growing—and shifting the balance of power.

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