Israeli rabbinate

Rather than saying to the Chief Rabbinate, “How dare you, I’m running away offended,” I say: “How dare you, you’re wrong.”

We will continue doing whatever is necessary to release chained women because, unlike their male counterparts, very little can be done to release them within in the framework of Jewish law.

David Lau says accusations regarding a lack of access to the main Western Wall plaza were “lies and falsehood.”

Among the list are several prominent Orthodox rabbinical leaders from the US, Israel and Canada.

"Israel’s latest conversion bill is only a more institutionalized manifestation of this social discomfort."

The current crisis is important not only because of what happens at the Western Wall and the relations between Israel and American Jewry, but because the very nature of Judaism is being undermined.

Two rabbis, including Israeli Abraham Steinberg, join the Vatican's Pontifical Academy advisory committee.

Cabinet also approves conversion law giving sole power to Chief Rabbinate.

The government decided to allow women to pray in the Western Wall alone and alongside men, yet no such section is open; Chief Rabbinate demands right to speak for itself in court.

The mother’s anguish was not only directed at religious hypocrisy.