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Rights org. files complaint after Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yosef shames women for private mikveh use

Religious rights organization ITIM said Chief Rabbi David Yosef's comments shaming women who want to use a mikveh privately were "halachically harmful."

Sephardi Chief Rabbi David Yosef, December 28, 2025; illustrative.
PHILLIPS and COHEN on their wedding day.

Lost in translation, found in love: Ariana Phillips’s path to marriage in Israel

Three women who arrived in the morning to sit the Rabbinate exams finally do so at a four-hour delay, April 27, 2026

Rabbinate accused of defying court as Israeli women left waiting for exams

THE HEADQUARTERS of the Chief Rabbinate in Jerusalem, as seen here in 2013.

Rabbinic court judge criticizes Judaism inquisitors - ITIM


ITIM publishes interactive map of Israel's accessible mikvahs

Immersion can be a highly dangerous or even simply inaccessible activity for women with physical disabilities who may be using mobility aids like canes or wheelchairs.

 Restored mikveh in White Stork Synagogue, Wroclaw, Poland.

Ukrainians trying to convert to Judaism in Israel face Kafkaesque trials

Yael and Aaron Agpov from Ukraine had tried to convert to Judaism in 2022, but then the war broke out. This, plus Israel's Kafkaesque bureaucracy, thrust them into uncertainty.

 THE AGPOV family with ITIM head Rabbi Seth Farber (L) after receiving Israeli citizenship at the Netanya Interior Ministry offices.

‘Exit the King:' delightful modern absurdism

Ionesco meets 1970s rock in an Instagram-friendly adaptation by Tmuna Theater.

 SCENES FROM ‘Exit the King’ with Shir Bernstein, Tal Venig, Dana Elezer and Gal Dorenfeld.

Petition demands childcare subsidies for women in Torah study programs

Women who learn in institutions for advanced religious study should be eligible for the same benefits as families where the father studies full time at a kollel.

High Court of Justice May 3, 2020

Convert’s nightmarish three-year quest for citizenship continues

From Baltimore’s notorious drug gangs to the Jewish State, David Ben Moshe continues to hope for Israeli citizenship.

David Ben Moshe together with his wife and child

Rabbis making it harder for Israeli immigrants to prove they’re Jewish

A study recently released warns that over the next two decades, hundreds of thousands of Israeli citizens from the former Soviet Union or of Ethiopian descent may need to validate their Judaism.

ACTIVISTS TAKE part in a demonstration in Jerusalem in July against legislation that would have strengthened the Chief Rabbinate’s monopoly over conversion in Israel

Conversion budget up 21%, number of converts down 30%

Not even a third of of conversion candidates actually convert.

Boy wearing a kippa

ITIM petitions to depoliticize election for Chief Rabbinate Council

Jerusalem chief rabbinate 311

NGO sues Jerusalem Rabbinate over mikva immersion without attendant

The lawsuit filed on Wednesday argues that the demand for a woman seeking to immerse alone to sign a disclaimer form violates her privacy and dignity.

A mikve, the Jewish ritual bath [Illustrative]