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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 564

Chief Rabbinate of Jerusalem

Illustrative: A man stands outside the Jerusalem Rabbinical Court. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 23, 2024, 12:53 pm
Rabbinical court imposes million-shekel divorce payment on husband, citing ketubah
Justices treat the traditional Jewish marriage document, typically viewed as symbolic, as a legally binding contract
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A man examines his pants with a magnifying glass (Juleta Martirosyan; iStock by Getty Images)
May 19, 2023, 10:41 am
A single absentee mohel is thwarting dozens of converts at very end of their journey
The government’s Conversion Authority has a long backlog of men waiting for months for a 10-second circumcision inspection to be considered Jewish
By Canaan Lidor
Illustrative: The building of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel in Jerusalem. (Flash90)
July 5, 2020, 10:44 am
Chief Rabbinate apologizes after its Facebook account used to post insults
Social media users who commented on official page about removal of cafe’s kosher permit were told their parents are ‘primitive’ or to ‘shut up’; rabbinate says posts ‘unauthorized’
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
Screen capture from video of Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem Shlomo Amar, right, during a seminar in Ashdod,July 19, 2019. (Kan public broadcaster)
July 23, 2019, 1:32 pm
Jerusalem chief rabbi: Gay people cannot be religious, shouldn’t pretend to be
LGBT community fumes after Shlomo Amar tells seminar that homosexuality is a ‘wild lust’ that can be overcome with simple fear of God
By Stuart Winer
Illustrative: Senator Joe Lieberman (left) with Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau (right) and Haim Taib, founder and chairperson of the 'First Israeli Congress on Judaism and Democracy.' (Erez Uzir)
February 12, 2018, 12:51 pm
Israeli, Diaspora leaders mind widening gap at glitzy Jerusalem event
First Israeli Congress on Judaism and Democracy kicks off with gala, with the fragmentation of Israel’s communities on the menu
By Tracy Frydberg
Haim Avrahami, one of the two owners of Pasta Basta, a popular restaurant in Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market. (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
September 27, 2017, 11:06 pm
The food’s kosher at Pasta Basta, despite latest fine from chief rabbinate
New skirmish in ‘kosher wars’ plays out at a popular pasta bar in Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda, following new certification rules
By Jessica Steinberg
The storefront of Hahummus shel Tehina, a Nahlaot eatery (Courtesy Hummus shel Tehina)
November 28, 2016, 4:32 pm
‘Open for Shabbat’ cafe project gets shut down
Pluralistic Jerusalem program, threatened by the rabbinate, postpones its planned get-together
By Jessica Steinberg
Police at the scene where unknown perpetrators chalked a Gay Pride flag at the entrance to the Jerusalem rabbinate offices, November 20, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 20, 2016, 10:07 am
Protesters ‘decorate’ Jerusalem chief rabbi’s office with gay pride flag
Police to investigate after Meretz activists hang banner, draw rainbow colors on sidewalk in protest of Shlomo Amar’s homophobic comments
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
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