Col. Avihud Schwartz, head of the IDF rabbinate’s department of Jewish law, during a meeting of the Knesset Committee for the Advancement of Women. “The decision not to actively offer soldiers ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Chief Rabbinate committed to creating standards for recognizing which Diaspora rabbis it trusts to handle Jewish conversions. The Ashkenazi and Sephardi chief rabbis ...

In contrast to the victim of get-refusal, the war widows desperately wanted to stay with their husbands. They became agunot ...

Israel has become a world leader in Zoom weddings performed by the State of Utah. Out of all applicants, 5,316 are Israeli, ...

The Chief Rabbinate recognizes 69 Orthodox rabbinical courts around the world. (JTA) — Israel’s official Jewish religious authority has published a list of rabbis it trusts to perform Jewish ...

The Israel Defense Forces’ Military Rabbinate distributed almost half a million hamantaschen, or oznei Haman (“Haman’s ears”) cookies, the army said ahead of the holiday of Purim, which starts ...

They can only pursue this challenge when they have the space to heal and the opportunity to gather, think and act ...

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