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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 434

IDF rabbinate

Illustrative: An Israeli reserve soldier and his wife pose for a picture after their wedding in the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona, October 25, 2023. (Erez Ben Simon/Flash90)
November 22, 2024, 4:44 pm
IDF rabbinate opposes asking troops to sign form ‘unchaining’ wives in case of disaster
While conditional divorces can free women in case of a husband’s disappearance or loss of mental faculties in battle, rabbis say pushing such a document on soldiers may hurt morale
By Mati Wagner
A soldier arrives at Sheba Medical Center for treatment after being evacuated from the battlefield by an IDF helicopter during the Israel-Hamas war, October 2023. (Courtesy of Sheba Medical Center)
February 22, 2024, 1:33 pm
Inside RAM 2, the IDF Medical Corps unit that cares for hospitalized soldiers
Greatly expanded since the war began, RAM 2 units respond to the practical and emotional needs of wounded soldiers and their families while liaising with the army on their behalf
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Rabbi and IDF Col. (res.) Yaakov Ruzah, 79, was called for reserve duty one day after Hamas's October 7 onslaught. (Courtesy)
December 27, 2023, 8:46 am
The world’s foremost rabbinic authority on declaring death grapples with Oct. 7 horrors
Drafted back into the army following the Hamas massacre, Rabbi Yaakov Ruzah says the terrorists’ atrocities have left even Judaism’s voluminous written tradition at a loss for words
By Mati Wagner
Alina Plahti (Courtesy)
November 14, 2023, 11:00 am
MKs blast separate burial for Hamas massacre victim who was converting to Judaism
Rabbinate kept 23-year-old Alina Plahti, murdered at Nova festival, out of Jewish part of cemetery; her mother says move is hurtful: ‘She was killed for her Judaism’
By Canaan Lidor
Alina Plahti (Courtesy)
November 14, 2023, 2:25 am
The Jewishness of some Hamas victims sparks bitter disputes over their burial
At the rabbinate’s insistence, two non-Jewish Israelis have been buried ‘outside the fence’ despite their families’ wishes, while others fight to cremate their loved ones
By Canaan Lidor
Volunteers in Jerusalem prepare tzitzit for IDF soldiers on the front lines, October 19, 2023. (Shira Silkoff)
October 23, 2023, 10:19 am
With tzitzit in high demand for IDF soldiers, volunteers take on the challenge
Jerusalem community prepares 60,000 pairs of the four-cornered, fringed ritual garments requested by religious and secular soldiers alike
By Shira Silkoff
The bodies of Israelis killed in a Hamas-led slaughter are gathered for identification at a military base in Ramle, Oct. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zweigenberg)
October 16, 2023, 1:10 am
Rabbis work 24/7 — even on Shabbat — to identify and tally those killed by Hamas
At IDF Rabbinate facility in Ramle, volunteers, reservists and experts say it could take months to provide certainty for families of all those killed in Oct. 7 terror onslaught
By AP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Eyal Karim, chief military rabbi, speaks during the funeral of Zachary Baumel, a soldier who went missing at the Battle of Sultan Yacub in 1982, at the Mount Herzl Military cemetery in Jerusalem, on April 4, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
December 25, 2022, 1:22 pm
Incoming coalition reportedly to give Chief Rabbinate control over IDF’s chief rabbi
Agreement between Religious Zionism and Likud includes planned bill that would change process of appointing military rabbi, make him subordinate to chief rabbi, and raise his rank
By Emanuel Fabian
(L-R) Lt. Col. Yedidya Atlas, chief of special projects for the IDF Rabbinate; Col. Avner Cohen, Chief of Staff of the IDF Rabbinate; Rabbi Elie Estrin, Aleph Military Liaison; Chaplain (Captain) Elisar Admon, US Army Reserve; Rabbi Yonatan Rubin, Director of Casualty Affairs for the IDF; and Cmdr. Ofir Tubul, Chief Rabbi of the Israeli Navy, outside the IDF Chief Rabbinate offices in Tel Aviv, September 2022. (Courtesy)
November 3, 2022, 7:56 pm
Orthodox nonprofit teams up with IDF to aid religious troops stationed in US
Aleph Institute establishes formal ties with Israeli military after Navy crews caught without kosher food during joint activities with American forces earlier this year
By Emanuel Fabian
Illustrative: An IDF non-commissioned officer dips a pot in boiling water to prepare it for the Passover holiday in a video produced by the Military Rabbinate in 2014. (Screen capture: Youtube)
April 7, 2020, 8:11 pm
With newly trained troops and a detailed manual, the IDF ‘koshers’ for Passover
Ordinarily an army of experienced reservists converts the military’s kitchens for the leaven-less holiday, but the coronavirus requires the IDF Rabbinate to change tack
By Judah Ari Gross
Police officers enforce coronavirus restrictions in Mea Shearim, an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem, on March 30, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)
March 30, 2020, 11:21 pm
700 IDF troops, mostly unarmed, to join police in enforcing partial lockdown
Military says only commanders and soldiers serving in West Bank settlements will carry weapons, as IDF takes on complicated new mission among Israeli civilians
By Judah Ari Gross
Israeli border police wear protective gear and masks against the coronavirus, at the Ein Yael Checkpoint, near the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo, March 11, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 27, 2020, 10:11 am
500 armed soldiers to join police in enforcing coronavirus restrictions
In unexplained reversal, troops will carry weapons as they help cops throughout the country beginning Sunday; servicemen to come from 8 training companies
By Judah Ari Gross
Police officers in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem close shops and disperse public gatherings following government orders in an effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus. March 24, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 24, 2020, 1:49 pm
IDF dedicates 8 battalions to help police if national lockdown declared
Military establishes its own coronavirus testing lab to check hundreds of soldiers a day in a bid to relieve pressure on civilian facilities
By Judah Ari Gross
Imam Baker Assaf speaks at the Islamic Center of Passaic County in Paterson, New Jersey, February 22, 2019 (MEMRI screenshot)
March 30, 2019, 7:56 pm
NJ imam claims IDF chief rabbi condoned rape of Palestinian women
Baker Assaf calls on Muslims to hate ‘Zionism’ rather than Jews, says Islam won’t accept gays but won’t ‘kick anybody off the Empire State Building’
By ToI Staff
Illustrative image of Israeli soldiers placing Israeli flags on the graves of fallen soldiers in Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, on April 16, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
April 17, 2018, 3:19 pm
Female IDF officer barred from reading remembrance prayer
Soldier is told rabbinate forbids women saying ‘Yizkor’ in Memorial Day service; army says it was a mistake and there is no such policy
By ToI Staff
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