Posts Tagged: Israel rabbis
Parashat Vayishlach: A Warning to Israel’s Chief Rabbinate
The Jews’ most formidable enemy in Biblical times was the nation of Amalek. This nation was, and symbolically still is, the personification of evil, brutality,...
A US Citizen Is Being Held Hostage by a Rabbinical Court in Israel
An elderly and sick US citizen has been held hostage for three years by a rabbinical court in Israel. He is being threatened with imprisonment...
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...
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...
Rabbinical Tyranny and Freedom of Thought
In the last few years, more and more books and essays written by well-respected Torah teachers have been condemned as heresy by some influential -- mainly...
Only a New Judaism Can Save Israel — and Our People
When I contemplate the future of the state of Israel and its inhabitants, I realize more and more that religious Judaism must become its primary...
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...
Hardline Israeli Rabbis Say John Kerry Has Declared War Against God
Jerusalem Post - A group of rabbis, including the founder of the far-right Our Land of Israel party, wrote in an open to letter to US Secretary...
Israel Needs New Religious Leadership
There was hardly a murmur when former Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger was arrested for the second time and placed under house arrest on suspicion of...
