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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 572

Chuck Davidson

In this Thursday, December 14, 2017 photo, Rabbi Chuck Davidson holds a wedding service in Ein Hemed. A growing number of Israeli couples are defying the country’s Chief Rabbinate and marrying in unsanctioned weddings. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
December 23, 2017, 8:54 am
With few options, Israeli couples turn to rogue weddings
Some 20% of Israelis are getting married outside the rabbinate, compared to 16% in 2010, and experts say the number will keep rising
By Ilan Ben Zion
Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll
May 30, 2017, 9:18 am
Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll
The brave convert
She’s not sure she’d join the Jewish people if she faced the (sometimes concocted) hurdles that converts do
Illustrative wedding photo. (JTA)
June 2, 2016, 3:58 pm
In Ottoman holdover, Israel doubles down on marriage restrictions
Knesset upholds 2-year jail term for Jewish couples who don’t choose an approved rabbi to conduct their weddings
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Broken Star of David
March 14, 2016, 4:04 pm
What happens when two Jews means two different peoplehoods?
The clash between much of the Diaspora and Israel over conversion and the question of ‘Who is a Jew?’ means the Jewish state now has two de facto classes of Jews. Where will it all end?
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
As Modern Orthodox Israelis begin grassroots efforts pushing for the demonopolization of the rabbinate, change is in the air. (Falling dominoes image via Shutterstock)
December 27, 2015, 9:56 pm
Will Orthodox Israelis’ revolt against the chief rabbinate spur a domino effect?
An in-depth look at a year of shifting sands in the notorious historical status quo of religion and state in the Holy Land
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Rabbi Charles Davidson, with Naftali and Michal Segev, whose halachic marriage he performed illegally, outside the framework of the Israeli Rabbinate (Channel 2 screenshot)
July 11, 2015, 9:56 pm
Risking jail, two Orthodox rabbis admit to performing non-rabbinate marriages
Chuck Davidson and Elli Fischer acknowledge their ‘crime,’ tell Channel 2 that Israel must separate religion from state
By ToI Staff
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