Tag: Chief Rabbinate Council
50 Years Late: Rabbinate Recognizes Ethiopian Jews in Israel, Many Ethiopian Jews Aren’t Impressed
Kes Maharat: "We have made sacrifices to keep our Judaism. For us to come to Israel only to be told it is doubtful we are a Jewish – there's nothing more humiliating than that."
Chief Rabbinate Forbids Using Origin, Skin Color, to Determine Jewish Status
The Li Bar workers protested this humiliation, and the management objected to the procedure, calling it "shaming parade."
Rabbi Eliyahu: Buying Lulavim from Gaza a Mitzvah Fulfilled through Transgression
"It is forbidden to provide a livelihood to the villains of Gaza at the expense of the farmers who suffer from their persecution."
Irate Smotrich Demands Netanyahu, Shaked, Intervene in Rabbinate’s Anti-Settlements Move
MK Bezalel Smotrich (Habayit Hayehudi) on Monday sent an angry letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu and Justice Minister Shaked, protesting the decision to discriminate...
Chief Rabbinate Approves Severing Kashrut Supervisors’ Reliance on Businesses They Monitor
The Rabbinical Council concluded its statement with a last-ditch effort to eliminate much of its decision, insisting that it "views the operation of the kashrut system by the religious councils as the correct alternative."
Nissim Committee’s Conversion Recommendations Under Broad Attack at Moment of Publication
"We, the Rabbis of Israel, regard with concern the danger to the unity of the Jewish people as a result of the proposals to reform the conversion process, which include the expropriation of conversion from the Chief Rabbinate."
Chief Rabbinate Condemns Supreme Court for ‘Severely Harming Shabbat’
"The fact that the judges' decision was based on their way of life expresses more than anything else that this is not a matter for trial, but a matter of their worldview."
Tzohar Condemns Nullification of Rabbi Lookstein’s Conversions as Chief Rabbi Reverses Ruling
Rabbi Lookstein, the spiritual leader of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and for many years principal of the Ramaz School, also converted Ivanka Marie Trump.
Senior Rabbi Condemns Court Ruling on Legalized Prostitution
As far as Rabbi Arusi is concerned, the Hermelin ruling might be that gulping sound at the end of the slippery slope of social and spiritual corruption that have engulfed Israel for decades.