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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 368

Eliezer Igra

File: Ashkenazi chief rabbi David Lau, July 24, 2013. (photo credit: Flash90/Yonatan Sindel)
July 24, 2013, 8:12 pm
Yitzhak Yosef, David Lau win chief rabbi posts
Both sons of former chief rabbis continue family dynasties, both candidates seen as mainstream
By Debra Kamin and Joshua Davidovich
Rabbi David Stav, cofounder and chairman of the Tzohar rabbinical organization. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
July 18, 2013, 5:45 pm
Boston Jewry implores Netanyahu to back moderate Stav for chief rabbi
The prime minister is urged to help retake the rabbinate from ‘distrusted non-Zionist rabbinical authorities’
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger (L) and Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Moshe Amar, March 11, 2013. (photo credit: Flash 90)
July 18, 2013, 12:58 pm
Would-be chief rabbis line up
10 candidates for the highest rabbinic position in the land include sons of former chief rabbis and a few controversial figures
By Stuart Winer
MK Zvulun Kalfa (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 26, 2013, 6:27 pm
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
Rabbi David Stav (photo credit: courtesy Tzohar)
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
Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau (photo credit: Flash90)
April 18, 2013, 11:04 am
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
Rabbi Eliezer Igra believes the chief rabbinate is 'at the heart of the unity of the People of Israel' (photo credit: Courtesy)
April 11, 2013, 12:10 pm
Torah, gefilte fish, and the road to the rabbinate
Eliezer Igra, a former combat soldier and settlement founder, and now a candidate for chief rabbi, speaks to The Times of Israel about ancient law in modern Israel and why the Jewish state is becoming more Jewish
By Matti Friedman
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