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Topic: Shlomo Amar

June 17, 2013
3:40 am

Rabbi David Stav (photo credit: courtesy Tzohar)

David Stav thanks supporters after verbal attack by Shas spiritual leader

Candidate for chief Ashkenazi rabbi says he will continue to put the interests of Torah and Jewish unity before his own

June 16, 2013
10:25 am

Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (photo credit: Flash90)

Shas rabbi skewers ‘wicked’ rabbinate candidate Stav

Ovadia Yosef denounces as ‘dangerous to Judaism’ moderate championed by Jewish Home and Yesh Atid; Education minister hits back at spiritual leader

By Gavriel Fiske

June 4, 2013
12:48 am

Members of Women of the Wall gather at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Friday, May 10. (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich/Times of Israel staff)

Chief rabbis receive death threats over Women of the Wall prayer

Women’s group denies connection to letters threatening ‘a hundred dead haredi bodies’

June 3, 2013
12:44 am

Jewish Home votes to back moderate Stav for chief rabbi

Support comes after months of infighting; bill clearing way for Sephardi chief rabbi Amar’s second term advances

By Lazar Berman

May 26, 2013
6:27 pm

MK Zvulun Kalfa (Jewish Home party). (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

MK puts chief rabbi laws on hold

Citing current lack of support, Zvulun Kalfa withdraws bill that would remove age limit, allow second term in post

By Asher Zeiger

May 15, 2013
12:58 am

Shas spirtual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and Chief Sephardi Rabbi Shlomo Amar during a Shas party Passover conference, April 2012 (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flashh90)

Shas leader to Bennett: Support chief rabbi deal

Ovadia Yosef asks Jewish Home head to back Yaakov Ariel and Shlomo Amar; agreement unlikely

By Lazar Berman

May 1, 2013
6:40 am

Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar (left) and Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger at the Western Wall in Jerusalem in April 2012 (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Who says Israel’s chief rabbis are so powerful?

Foreign Policy for one, but few Israelis would agree on the inclusion of Shlomo Amar and Yona Metzger among the magazine’s 500 most powerful people

By Haviv Rettig Gur

April 29, 2013
4:50 am

Rabbinate must adapt or perish, says chief rabbi candidate

In effort to overcome conservative establishment, slow and steady is only formula for moderates

By Ben Sales

April 18, 2013
11:04 am

Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau (photo credit: Flash90)

Speculation roils chief rabbi race

A new-old candidate, former chief rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, is said to be considering a comeback

By Matti Friedman

March 31, 2013
8:55 pm

President Shimon Peres and Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar comment on the decision to start pumping gas from the offshore Tamar field on a Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath. (screen capture, Channel 2)

Peres: Gas pumping shouldn’t have begun on Sabbath

President congratulates shareholder Tshuva on ‘monumental deed,’ says decision to put gas into use on Saturday was a mistake

By Yifa Yaakov

March 31, 2013
11:13 am

Energy and Water Minister Silvan Shalom visits a special processing plant off the coast of Ashdod, set to receive gas from the Tamar deposit for the first time in four years. (photo credit: Moshe Binyamin/Energy and Water Ministry)

Despite natural gas boost, electricity to rise 6.5% next month

With Israel now moving towards energy independence, Energy Minister Silvan Shalom hopes this will be last price hike

By Asher Zeiger and Times of Israel staff

January 3, 2013
5:52 am

Anti-Semitic graffiti (illustrative photo: CC BY zeeweez, Flickr)

Swastika, anti-Semitic slogans spray-painted on Toulouse building

French city was the site of March 2012 attack that killed Jewish teacher and three school-children

By Times of Israel staff

January 2, 2013
9:57 pm

Yona Metzger speaks to the media in Berlin, August 21 (photo credit: Markus Schreiber/AP)

Chief rabbis call on EU to investigate anti-Semitism after attack in Venice

Gang of Arab youths reportedly assault, seriously injure American Jewish tourist; ADL has said anti-Semitism in Europe at ‘disturbingly high levels’

By Ilan Ben Zion

December 25, 2012
4:05 am

Bnei Menashe immigrants arrive at Ben Gurion Airport from India in 2006. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Indian Jews from ‘lost tribe’ land in Israel

Dozens of Bnei Menashe members immigrate after years of controversy over their connection to Judaism

By Lauren E. Bohn

November 7, 2012
5:53 pm

The Druks, a family of Chabad emissaries to Cancun (photo credit: courtesy of Chabad Cancun)

Life’s not always a beach for first Chabad reps in Cancun

Mexican resort city offers opportunities, challenges to its pioneering ultra-Orthodox emissaries, a family of five with roots in Detroit and Brooklyn

By Aaron Kalman

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