Tag: Chief Rabbinate of Israel

This is not the first time that the rabbinic courts in Israel try to put pressure on a get refuser through sanctions against his relatives.

The chief rabbi's office insists he doesn’t trust the new head of the conversion system, Rabbi Benayahu Brunner from Tzohar, never mind the repercussions.

There are no representatives of the Jewish communities of Judea and Samaria in the Electoral Assembly.

MK Smotrich is traveling to Europe to share his own perception of the Matan Kahana conversion reform.

The new law allegedly sets mitigating threshold conditions for rabbis who will convert outside the framework of the Chief Rabbinate.

The two chief rabbis accused Kahana of looking to please non-Orthodox sectors in Israel and abroad.

MK Yulia Malinowski (Israel Beiteinu), Chairman of the Knesset Religious Services Committee, is about to submit her version of a conversion bill to a preliminary vote.

Chief Rabbi David Lau met with Rabbis Haim Drukman and Yaakov Ariel and tried to persuade them to oppose Kahana's move.

Shas Chairman MK Aryeh Deri, in an interview on Radio Kol Chai, referred to Kahana and Naftali Bennett (Yamina) as Hellenized Jews, always a good slur for Chanukah.

The question was posed by a resident of Lod following several incidents of Arab gunfire in recent days in Lod and Ramla.

Both methods were devised as legal fictions to go around the literal wording of the mitzvah of shmita.

Here are a few choice items I translated hurriedly. Clearly, a deeper discussion should follow.

Shas chairman Aryeh Deri said Kahana's plan is "crushing the Jewish identity of the state."

The bribes allegedly came in the form of cash, large amounts of alcoholic beverages, and the very consumer goods for which importers were seeking kosher certificates.

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."

"You are hereby requested to vigorously reverse your remarks about my client, and apologize to him in a manner that would be coordinated with him."

Rabbi Haim Amsalem responded: "Soon the term in office of this violent man will end."

The Li Bar workers protested this humiliation, and the management objected to the procedure, calling it "shaming parade."

Rabbi Yosef explained his decision, saying, "They followed the rule of 'the more stringent the better,' and made up many, many Chumrot (stringent rules)."

It remains to be seen whether the Chief Rabbinate—and in turn the Interior Ministry—will in fact register the Oren couple as being legally married.

In 2016, the High Court of Justice ruled that conversions in private Orthodox courts in Israel should be recognized. The Netanyahu government has been dragging its feet about complying with the ruling.

Qadri was informed the conversion would not be recognized because it was carried out by a rabbi who is independent from the state network of Rabbinate authorities authorized to conduct conversions.

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."

Venice Chief Rabbi Rabbi Bahbout disregarded the status quo and declared that he would convert people from all over Italy in his court, including those who had been rejected in the courts in Milan and Rome.

Hamas published leaflets threatening the Rishon Lezion and featuring photographs of Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, MK Rabbi Yehuda Glick and other rabbis as well, calling for their assassination.

"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."

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu accused a private kashrut organization of ignoring the sale of meat slaughtered in an Arab village to Jerusalem restaurants under their supervision.

Some 40% of European Ashkenazi Jews carry a genetic mark that suggests they are the offspring of four mothers who immigrated to Europe from the Middle East a millennia ago.

The Chief Rabbi was very critical of the fact that the terrorist attacker had not been eliminated at the scene of the crime.

Rabbi Fass expressed his hope that the matter will be resolved, and that a healing process will begin to develop between the Chief Rabbinate and Rabbinic leaders across the world.