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Topic: Chief Rabbinate of Israel

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March 4, 2013
10:30 pm

Shai Piron, right, of Yesh Atid, with party leader Yair Lapid in October. Piron's endorsement boosted moderate David Stav in his bid to reform Israel's religious bureaucracy (Photo credit: Ben David/Flash90)

Moderate bolstered by Yesh Atid backing in chief rabbi race

Rabbi David Stav receives a boost from freshman party, but still faces an uphill battle to become chief rabbi in the most hotly contested race in memory

By Matti Friedman

February 19, 2013
1:10 pm

The rabbi and the rock: Dov Lipman in his Knesset office (photo credit: Courtesy)

Dov Lipman’s rock solid struggle for a better Israel

The first US-born MK in 30 years discusses his improbable rise, and the endemic corruption in Israeli politics he and his newly empowered party insist they’ll tackle

February 14, 2013
4:56 am

Rabbi David Stav (photo credit: courtesy Tzohar)

Can a liberal face foment a revolution in the Rabbinate?

Rabbi David Stav, 53, is waging a public campaign to become the next Ashkenazi chief rabbi and wrest control of the institution from the ultra-Orthodox

By Daniel Estrin

February 12, 2013
11:18 pm

Lapid calls for peace talks, but says Olmert went too far

Yesh Atid head tells US Jewish leaders he’ll promote equality for all religious denominations, says ‘no one can claim ownership’ over God

By Raphael Ahren

January 23, 2013
12:46 pm

A new Jewish agenda for Israel

We have a historic chance to reverse abuse and alienation and neutralize the ticking conversion timebomb

By Jeffrey Woolf

January 13, 2013
1:40 pm

Why I’m running for chief rabbi of Israel

We can revolutionize the Rabbinate and restore its Zionist character of uniting and strengthening Jewish society

By David Stav

January 3, 2013
8:32 pm

Meretz party member Nitzan Horowitz (center) conducts a gay marriage ceremony outside the rabbinical court in Tel Aviv, Thursday, January 3, 2013 (photo credit: Flash90)

Political party weds gay couples

Meretz holds nuptials on steps of Tel Aviv rabbinical court to protest Jewish Home candidate who dissed same-sex marriage

By Adiv Sterman

December 24, 2012
2:29 pm

Former Chief Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi Doron, May, 2010. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

In first, former chief rabbi charged with fraud

Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron is suspected of involvement in scam to provide civil servants with false papers entitling them to government bonuses

By Stuart Winer

December 24, 2012
1:23 pm

Avigdor Liberman surrounded by reporters in Jerusalem, December 16 (photo credit: Alex Kolomoisky/Flash90)

Separation anxiety

The prosecution and press are having difficulty letting go of the Liberman case; papers investigate Temple Mount trash, and Shas and Likud are engaged in a lovers’ quarrel

By Ron Friedman

November 2, 2012
1:59 pm

Minister of Communications Moshe Kahlon, in the Knesset in August. (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/FLASH90)

Kahlon craze hits the press

Election fever at an all-time high and the water company declares war on the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate

By Ilan Ben Zion

October 31, 2012
6:04 pm

Labor Party head Shelly Yachimovich speaks during a conference of the Jewish people policy Institute in Jerusalem on October 31 (photo credit: Oren Nahshon/Flash90)

Yachimovich calls for recognition of non-Orthodox Judaism

Labor chief praises recent decision to have Reform and Conservative rabbis receive state funding

By Raphael Ahren

September 23, 2012
10:09 pm

The 'Gaza Hacker Team' mars the Chief Rabbinate's website. (photo credit: image capture of www.rabanut.gov.il)

Arab hackers leave ‘message to all Jewses’ on Chief Rabbinate’s website

‘Gaza Hacker Team’ calls for release of hunger-striking Palestinians in Israeli prisons

By Ilan Ben Zion

September 20, 2012
5:05 pm

On Yom Kippur, Rabbinate must put its house in order

It is high time that the religious establishment made a confession: ‘We have failed, we have transgressed’

By Michael Boyden

September 11, 2012
11:17 am

David Stav (photo credit: Courtesy of Tzohar)

A battle for the rabbinate, and for Israel’s soul

If Israel doesn’t take a more inclusive approach to Jewish conversion and marriage, the country will ‘splinter to pieces,’ says David Stav, who hopes to lead a revolution in the Chief Rabbinate beginning this spring