Posts Tagged: Israeli Rabbinate
Israeli Modern Orthodox Rabbi Slams Tel Aviv Synagogue Fashion Show (VIDEO)
A leading voice in Israeli Modern Orthodoxy has sharply criticized a fashion show, which included a catwalk featuring scantily-clad models, held in a Tel Aviv...
RCA Says it Has Reached ‘Historic’ Deal With Israeli Rabbinate
JNS.org - The Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) announced that it has reached a "historic" deal with the Israeli Rabbinate on determining the "Jewishness"...
Israeli Rabbinate to Allow Women to be Kashrut Supervisors
JNS.org - Israel's Chief Rabbinate will allow women to become Kashrut supervisors for the first time in the wake of a petition filed by...
The Wandering Jew of Kosher Wines
It was eight years ago, on a rainy afternoon at New York City's Javits Center, while I was covering the annual Kosherfest trade show, that...
Menachem Elon and Theocracy
One of the greatest of Jewish jurists, Menachem Elon, former Supreme Court Judge in Israel, died this week. He was steeped in the Talmudic...
Modern Orthodox Rabbi Seeks to Change Israeli Rabbinate
Amid the surprising Israeli election results that empowered political parties calling for a change to the ultra-Orthodox's grip on Jewish life, a reform-minded modern Orthodox...
Tulip Winery: Where Grape Vines and Human Dignity Bear Fruit
Since he was a kid growing up in the town of Kiryat Tivan, Roy Itzhaki would regularly see them in the street, on their way to work,...
Naftali Bennett: Time for Change in Status Quo in Religion and State
The day after the new Israeli party Habayit Hayehudi (Jewish Home) won 12 Knesset seats, party leader Naftali Bennett called for a change ...
