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Avi Weiss

People shop at a supermarket in Jerusalem, a day before the start of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, September 10, 2026. (Rachel Alroey/Flash90)
September 15, 2026, 1:57 pm
Israelis are feeling economic anxiety. Why aren’t politicians talking about it?
Voters say they care about kitchen-table issues at a time of rising costs. But in the wake of Israel’s worst catastrophe, and amid political polarization, experts say the path to victory, as always, runs through matters of war and peace
By Ben Sales
Israeli troops stand outside Soroka Hospital in the southern city of Beersheba, after it was hit by a missile fired from Iran on June 19, 2025. (Marc Israel SELLEM / POOL / AFP)
July 9, 2025, 10:03 am
High defense spending set to threaten fiscal stability and welfare services – report
Taub Center paints worrying picture of healthcare system and welfare spending gaps, with funding for security needs soaring
By Sharon Wrobel
Jamaal Bowman speaks to attendees during his primary-night party, June 23, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)
August 4, 2020, 8:02 am
Obama gave a House candidate his blessing — after reading his letter to a rabbi
Jamaal Bowman, who defeated Eliot Engel in June primary, says the former president ‘loved’ his response to a rabbi who questioned his stances on Israel
By Eric Cortellessa
From left to right, rabbis Shabbos Kestenbaum, Avi Weiss, Ezra Seligsohn, and Jonathan Leener protest the location of a church in a former SS headquarters across from the former Nazi death camp Birkenau, January 27, 2020. (Yaakov Schwartz/ Times of Israel)
January 30, 2020, 4:17 am
Church in former Auschwitz SS headquarters is ‘desecration,’ say activist rabbis
As world leaders poured in to commemorate the 75th liberation of the Nazi death camp on January 27, a handful of clergy demanded it be moved to less sacred ground for Jews
By Yaakov Schwartz
Avi Weiss
August 30, 2018, 8:21 am
Avi Weiss
We need to stop the ’racists’ vs ’anti-Zionists’ slugfest
Ahead of the High Holidays, debates over Israel’s Nation-State bill must become opportunities to listen not to vilify
Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, located at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale in New York. (Courtesy, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah/JTA)
May 28, 2018, 8:34 pm
Rabbinate official appears to blacklist alumni of liberal Orthodox yeshiva
Rabbi Asher Ehrentreu rejects proof-of-Judaism letter from graduates of New York’s Chovevei Torah; Rabbinate denies claim it’s a matter of policy
By Marissa Newman
The ActivePath team at its Tel Aviv office; US fintech firm Broadridge has acquired the Israeli startup; March 27, 2018 (Courtesy)
March 27, 2018, 2:48 pm
US fintech firm Broadridge buys Israeli startup ActivePath
The acquisition is a first in Israel for the US digital communication company, which plans to use the local team to expand R&D and investment
By Shoshanna Solomon
African asylum seekers gather at the entrance to Holot Detention Center on Saturday, June 18, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
March 16, 2018, 6:57 am
Prominent Israel advocates urge Netanyahu to reverse course on deportations
Alan Dershowitz, Abe Foxman among group warning PM that expulsion of asylum-seekers could hurt Israel and Diaspora Jewry
By Ron Kampeas
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) shakes hands with Likud MK Avraham Neguise during an event marking Aliya Day in the Knesset on October 24, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 24, 2017, 3:45 pm
Knesset event cheering immigrants marred by fighting on Ethiopians, conversion
Second ‘Aliya Day’ holiday event punctuated by criticism of government, rabbinate over those left behind
By Marissa Newman
Rabbi Shuki Reich (L), seminary head of the Susi Bradfield Women’s Institute of Halakhic Leadership, and Rabbi Shlomo Riskin (C), chancellor of Ohr Torah Stone, present Rabbanit Shira Zimmerman with her certification as a Spiritual Leader and Arbiter of Jewish Law at a ceremony in Jerusalem, January 3. 2017. (Ohr Torah Stone)
October 11, 2017, 5:25 am
Why it’s easier to ordain Orthodox women in Israel than the US
While American efforts have been met with opposition from establishment groups, Israel’s own ‘Maharat’ rabbinical graduate program is quietly flourishing
By Ben Sales
Rabbi Asher Lopatin at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah in Riverdale, New York (Michael Datikash)
September 2, 2017, 5:23 am
President of NY liberal Orthodox yeshiva to step down
Rabbi Asher Lopatin leaving Yeshivat Chovevei Torah at end of new academic year
By JTA
Rabbi Asher Lopatin at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah in Riverdale, New York (Michael Datikash)
From the WebAugust 17, 2017, 9:54 pm
To mend bridges, ‘open’ Orthodoxy institutions consciously de-brand
New York Jewish Week: Current head of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah eschews term as distracting from working towards an inclusive Modern Orthodoxy
By Johanna Ginsberg
Rabbi Adam Scheier, the senior rabbi at Canada's oldest traditional Ashkenazi synagogue, Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, and a member of the Israeli rabbinate's 'blacklist.' (courtesy)
July 11, 2017, 12:54 pm
A blacklisted Diaspora rabbi is pleased to find himself in good company
Adam Scheier, rabbi of Leonard Cohen’s Orthodox Montreal synagogue, says the issue is not getting himself off the Israeli Chief Rabbinate’s list, but that there is a list at all
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Rabbi Avi Weiss leading a vigil and march in New York City in remembrance of the three Israeli boys who were kidnapped and killed in the West Bank days earlier, June 30, 2014. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images via JTA)
July 9, 2017, 6:22 pm
Here is the Chief Rabbinate’s ‘blacklist’ of American rabbis
Some 160 rabbis wrote letters confirming Jewish identity of prospective immigrants which were rejected in 2016
By Ben Sales
Rabbi Avi Weiss during a memorial service on June 17, 2014, outside the UN in New York, for the three Israeli teenagers kidnapped in the West Bank. (AP/John Minchillo)
July 9, 2017, 2:21 am
160 rabbis, including top US Orthodox leaders, on Israeli Rabbinate ‘blacklist’
List of those not recognized to authenticate Jewish identities of immigrants includes Avi Weiss of Riverdale, dozens of Reform and Conservative leaders
By Ben Sales
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