Posts Tagged: David Lau
Photo Essay: 50,000 People Gather at Western Wall to Pray for Safe Return of Hostages in Gaza
In an extraordinary display of unity, some 50,000 Jews from all walks of life gathered at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Wednesday for a...
Chief Rabbi Calls for State to Assume Responsibility for Mt. Meron Site in Wake of Disaster
i24 News - In the midst of preparing for a national day of mourning for the victims of the Mount Meron tragedy, Israel’s Ashkenazi Chief...
Israel’s Chief Rabbi Says Coronavirus Patients Not Permitted to Fast on Tisha B’Av
Israel’s chief Ashkenazi rabbi, David Lau, issued guidelines on Monday that stated coronavirus patients and those with possible symptoms of the disease were prohibited from...
The Disgrace of Israel’s Chief Rabbinate
The Israeli Chief Rabbinate and some of our halachic authorities seem to have taken a path that results in causing people great pain and suffering, thereby...
Israel’s Scandal-Ridden Chief Rabbinate Must Be Reformed
The scandalous depths to which the haredi extremists who have abused their rabbinical authority are sinking seem limitless. It is high time for Jews in...
It’s Time to Disband Israel’s State-Sponsored Rabbinical Leadership
I rubbed my eyes in disbelief when I read that Separdi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef has extended the ban on television and computers by decreeing that...
Netanyahu Meets With Israel’s Chief Rabbis on Conversion Law Crisis
Arutz Sheva - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held an urgent meeting early Tuesday afternoon with the Chief Rabbis, Rabbi David Lau and Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef,...
A New Phase of Operation Protective Edge Begins: IDF Aims to Target Hamas Terror Tunnels and End Rocket Fire
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon instructed the Israel Defense Forces to begin a ground action to strike at terror tunnels...
Israel’s Chief Rabbi David Lau Urges Restraint After Murders
Arutz Sheva - Rabbi David Lau, the Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Israel, on Wednesday called on Israelis to exercise restraint amid calls for revenge on Arabs over the...
Israel’s President-Elect Calls on Religious Leaders to Pray for Missing Boys
TEL AVIV - Israel's newly elected president Reuven Rivlin called upon world leaders and religious figures to pray for the return of the three kidnapped...
Prayer and Unity: The Quintessentially Jewish Response to a Kidnapping
JNS.org - JERUSALEM—With their pictures posted on countless Facebook pages and widely published in newspapers and on websites, the faces of the three missing...
Israel’s Chief Rabbi Lau Announces Opposition to Assisted Suicide Bill
Ynet - The "physician-assisted suicide" bill, which was approved Sunday by the Ministerial Committee on Legislative Affairs has been met with fierce criticism in the rabbinical...
New Israeli Chief Rabbi Visits U.S. in First Official Trip
Arutz Sheva - This past week, Religious Zionists of America (RZA) sponsored the first official visit to the United States by the Chief Rabbi of...
Lau Opposes Effort to Merge Chief Rabbinate
Ynet - The Chief Rabbi launched a verbal attack against a bill which aims to merge the dual position of chief rabbi. The bill, currently...
