Posts Tagged: Israeli Chief Rabbinate
Setting the Record Straight on David Lau and Pittsburgh
A negative narrative that is rapidly gaining currency in the media concerns a broadening rift between Israeli and American Jews, caused by Israel’s Orthodox rabbinate...
Embarrassed to Be Israeli or Jewish?
This week, I met someone who had just returned from a trip to the Greek islands. He told me that he kept meeting Israelis who confided that...
Israeli Chief Rabbi ‘Stunned’ by Alleged Blacklist of 160 Diaspora Rabbis
JNS.org - At a time of heightened tension between Diaspora Jewry and the State of Israel over religious issues, the Israeli Chief Rabbinate sought to distance...
Defending Rabbi Haskel Lookstein
I met Rabbi Haskel Lookstein in 1981, about a week before my wedding. I had made aliyah four years earlier and had brought my Israeli fiancé...
Natan Sharansky Supports Riskin’s Continuation as Chief Rabbi of Efrat
JNS.org - Natan Sharansky, the famed refusenik and current chairman of The Jewish Agency for Israel, spoke out in support of Rabbi Shlomo Riskin's retention...
Chief Rabbinate Removes Ban on Christmas Trees at Israeli Hotels
JNS.org - The Israeli Chief Rabbinate has removed a prohibition against the placement of Christmas trees in Israeli hotels. Prior to the change, hotels that offered...
Israel to Create Kosher Supervision Authority
JNS.org - Israel's Religious Services Ministry intends to create a kosher observance authority to put an end to the practice of business and restaurant owners...
Five Reasons Women of the Wall Must Stop Now
Owning a PR Firm, I must tip my hat to the "Women of The Wall" for their continued brilliant Public Relations efforts and...
Israeli Chief Rabbinate Tackles Quandary of Pastry Fillings
Members of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate's Kashrut Division called a meeting this week to discuss the problematic and potentially misleading shapes of an Israeli bakery...
Israel Rejects Study Minimizing Hatred in Palestinian Arab Textbooks
Israel's Education Ministry has rejected the findings of a State Department-funded study that determined Palestinian textbooks do not incite hatred against Israel and that both...
