The rabbinate has lost its constituency and is losing respect as well.

It has reduced rabbis to bureaucrats subject to the temptations of patronage and corruption.

It’s not to condemn Conservative Judaism.

Reflections on the founder of Israel’s chief rabbinate.

Perhaps on paper, but not in reality.

Perhaps it’s time for the Modern Orthodox to reject the institution altogether.

“The older Torah scholars become, the more wisdom increases within them.”

A leading Modern Orthodox rabbi is being forced out.

Tablets with curved tops? Rectangles? Two sides of the same stone?

Two reform-minded rabbis discuss.

Throughout his life, Ben-Zion Meir Hai Ouziel (1880-1953), the first Sephardi chief rabbi of Israel, held fast to a vision of breaking down the divisions. . .

Shlomo Goren, who was the first chief rabbi of the IDF and later served as Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel, did much to shape the. . .

A bill passed by the Knesset weakens the chief rabbinate’s grip on marriage registration; it was thought politically impossible only a year ago—and the. . .

Israeli society has only begun to have a serious conversation over what, if anything, the contemporary rabbinate is for.