Israeli Chief Rabbinate

A general day of saying kaddish.

Shimshon HaKohen Nadel
Dec. 22 2023 12:01AM

A visit from a chief rabbi in the remote home of Australia’s two oldest synagogues.

Nomi Kaltmann
July 25 2023 12:01AM

Israeli police and political leaders take such crime seriously. It’s time for Israel’s religious leadership to join them.

Faydra Shapiro
Jan. 10 2023 12:01AM

“The less we force Judaism, the more people will choose it.”

April 15 2022 12:01AM

“Checklists are for driving licenses, not for religious courts.”

April 11 2022 12:01AM

An open letter from Orthodox rabbinic leaders.

Binyamin Blau, Mark Dratch, Leonard Matanky, Michael Taubes, Moishe Bane and Moshe Hauer
April 6 2022 12:01AM

“We are trying . . . to decentralize the power of the chief rabbinate.”

David Isaac
March 17 2022 12:01AM

Nowhere does halakhah call for a state monopoly.

Sept. 1 2021 12:01AM

A test of society’s religious and moral mettle—and of halakhic flexibility.

Aug. 18 2021 12:01AM

Transparency and competition will help reduce corruption and other ills.

David Stav
Aug. 16 2021 12:01AM

Daniel Gordis argued in this 2019 conversation that Israeli and American Jews are fundamentally divided. With a new government now in place, has he been proven correct?

July 16 2021 12:01AM

Isaac Halevy Herzog’s unwavering conviction that the Torah was given by a benevolent and compassionate God.

Baruch Sterman and Judy Taubes Sterman
March 26 2021 12:01AM

The Israeli intellectual joins us to explain his country’s newest conversion controversy, and the underlying tensions it illuminates within Israeli public life.

March 11 2021 12:01AM