Like most traditionally all-male professions, the rabbinate was not immediately hospitable to women, and women rabbis have fought misogyny, harassment and bias to gain career advancement, appropriate ...

The test books of sixty candidates for Rabbinic ordination were lost during the marking process. After months of uncertainty, ...

The more I was studying Judaism, especially Torah, thinking about what I would be teaching as a rabbi, the more I saw ...

The women spent years studying the necessary halachot for the exam, as well as solidifying and investing in their Jewish and Torah knowledge as a whole. In a landmark verdict, the High Court of ...

Members of the Dutch Jewish community gathered in the 170-year-old Arnhem Synagogue to celebrate 50 years of leadership of ...

(RNS) — An investigation has been opened against Israel’s state rabbinate after an organization that advocates for converts’ rights brought a complaint before the country’s High Court. The complaint ...

Vered Shavit did everything she could to avoid the Israeli rabbinate. When she got married in 2005, she flew all the way to Cyprus for a civil ceremony, then had a Reform ceremony in Israel and never ...

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel at a ceremony marking the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day in Jerusalem Apr 17, 2023. The Knesset voted overnight Monday to ...

A ruling by the Chief Rabbinate Council Monday cleared the way for heart transplant operations in Israel. It came after weeks of discussion between the 12-man council and a panel of physicians which ...

The Turkish Government notified the Grand Rabbinate today that the Rabbinate’s board of trustees will again be allowed to administer all Jewish communal lands, other properties and funds. A year ago, ...

Israel’s Chief Rabbinate says it does not have a list of Diaspora rabbis whose testimony it accepts, despite turning down the testimony of the rabbis of immigrants wishing to clarify their Jewish and ...

New IDF guidelines will expand prayer time, adjust Shabbat leave, and require Chief Military Rabbi approval for kashrut, ...