Israeli Chief Rabbinate
The Israeli government categorizes many of the Russian immigrants as “Israelis of no religion” because they do not satisfy the demands of an overbearing rabbinic establishment.
A question that gets to the heart of Jewish identity.
Another casualty of the peace process.
Even chief rabbis have obligations to the Jewish people.
Increasing numbers of young people are simply bypassing the rabbinic establishment.
Setting the record straight on the Haiyun affair.
Halakhic rulings from the diaspora may not always apply well to Israeli realities.
Halakhic federalism.
Two moments of Italian Jewish distinctiveness.
Agnon or Herzog?
Look to the bureaucracy.
Furious and extreme proposals in response to two Israeli government decisions are ill-reasoned and immature.
A much greater problem for Israel, and for American Jewry, than the Western Wall controversy.