Naftali Bennett and Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau, February 3, 2014. Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau, who opposes Yamina’s Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana’s conversion reform, has decided ...

Rabbi Eitan Eisman, of of the leading rabbis of the Religious Zionist movement, expressed support for Religious Affairs Minister Matan Kahana's conversion reforms and called for a dialogue between ...

Hundreds of rabbis from the haredi and religious Zionist sectors took part Tuesday evening in a conference and demonstration at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem against the kashrut and ...

Following the postponement of a controversial coalition bill reducing local governments’ influence over the appointment of municipal rabbis, former Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana (National ...

The Gemara (Bava Batra 8b) relates that during a period of severe drought in Eretz Yisrael, Rabbi Yehuda Ha’Nasi, head of the Sanhedrin and compiler of the Mishna, ordered the public storehouses to be ...

A second election round for Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi will occur next week, after an inconclusive first election round today, the Rabbinate announces. The long-awaited election, held this afternoon in ...

Israel’s Chief Rabbi, David Lau, wears a rabbinical hat, not a cowboy hat. But last week he stood in the town square, drew his pistol, aimed, and fired. He was, metaphorically speaking, Rabbi Clint ...

A tie was recorded between the candidates for the position of Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Micha Halevi, Rabbi of Petah Tikva, and Rabbi Kalman Ber, Rabbi of Netanya. A runoff will be held next week.