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Tag: Chief Rabbinate

0 Israel Education

Yeshivahs will not be solving the IDF’s personnel shortage crisis anytime soon

Jewish Chronicle · 3 Jul

The IDF is currently facing a significant personnel shortage, affecting its ability to address ongoing security threats in Gaza, Lebanon, and the West Bank, with grave implications for soldiers and their families.

0 Israel Jewish Law

Israelis are getting religion, in spite of a coercive Chief Rabbinate

Rabbi Kenneth Brander in JTA · 21 Jun

Despite a coercive Chief Rabbinate in Israel, a trend is emerging where some secular Israelis are voluntarily adopting religious customs such as wearing tzitzit, baking challah, or lighting Shabbat candles in response to the war in Gaza.

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Never Was a Failure More Prophetic

Rabbi Dr. Hillel Goldberg in Jewish Action · 18 Feb 2021

Rabbi Hillel Goldberg reflects on a decision he made thirty years ago to decline an opportunity to work with Rabbi Jonathan Sacks in London.

0 Jewish Law Israel

Battling Israel’s Marriage Monopoly

Dana Kessler in Tablet · 5 Feb 2019

In Israel, the Chief Rabbinate holds a monopoly on Jewish marriages, leading to limitations such as Orthodox control, prohibiting Reform or Conservative ceremonies, and questioning the Jewish status of immigrants.

0 Israel Jewish Law

Shaking Up Israel’s Kosher Certification System

Timothy D. Lytton in Jewish Review of Books · 16 Sep 2014

The text discusses the case of Ilana Raskin challenging the Jerusalem religious council's attempt to restrict entertainment like belly dancing in venues with kosher certification.

0 Food Jewish Law

For Bourekas, Shape Matters

Romy Zipken in Tablet · 17 Jun 2013

The Chief Rabbinate in Israel is implementing a new law to distinguish between dairy and parve (neither meat nor dairy) bourekas by their shape, as opposed to their traditional square and triangular forms.