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Customers sitting at Cafe Kadosh in Jerusalem, May 2020. The restaurant is one of hundreds in Israel that has opted for kosher certification outside the auspices of Israel's Chief Rabbinate. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 2, 2026, 11:01 pm
Rabbinate approves — then disputes — alternative Tzohar kosher certification in landmark ruling
After years of legal and political battles, liberal group claims to have broken the Chief Rabbinate’s longstanding monopoly over kosher certification — if it’s not overturned
By Zev Stub
The dairy counter in a Jerusalem supermarket offering the cow-free New Milk by tech company Remilk among regular dairy options and other milk substitutes on January 29, 2026. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)
February 3, 2026, 4:30 pm
New ‘no-animal’ milk has kosher foodies salivating. Here’s why you can have it with your steak
Cow-free beverage made from lab-engineered dairy protein is now sold in supermarkets across Israel. At least one restaurateur is setting his table for old-fashioned Southern fried chicken
By Rossella Tercatin
Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Kalman Ber in his office in Jerusalem on July 22, 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)
August 1, 2025, 4:15 pm
In a polarized time, new chief rabbi envisions revamped Rabbinate with a wide embrace
From the Haredi draft to marriage and kashrut, top Ashkenazi cleric Kalman Ber says he believes love, unity and quiet action — rather than public fights — are key to lasting change
By Rossella Tercatin
File: An Orthodox rabbi checks his knife in a Kosher slaughterhouse in Csengele, Hungary on Jan. 15, 2021 (AP/Laszlo Balogh).
March 17, 2024, 2:10 am
Canadian Jewish agencies sue government over rules they say curb kosher meat industry
Lawsuit by prominent kosher certification agencies claims leadership is seriously harming sale, distribution of domestically produced kosher beef
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Orthodox Union's Rabbi Menachem Genack, left, visits Israeli startup SuperMeat as part of the company's kosher certification process. (Courtesy/SuperMeat)
September 6, 2023, 8:47 pm
In first, leading kosher authority Orthodox Union certifies lab-grown meat
Israeli startup SuperMeat’s chicken products sidestep restrictions on using parts of living animals by growing meat from egg stem cells
By Luke Tress
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April 10, 2023, 12:51 pm
Kashrut in Theory and in Practice
We speak with Channa Lockshin Bob about the biblical context of Kashrut laws and the meaning they can create in our contemporary religious lives
File: Lawyers Rabbi Uri Regev (far right) and Edna Meyrav with their client from Elad at a Supreme Court hearing in 2014. (Courtesy: Hiddush)
March 17, 2023, 8:48 am
What Matters Now to religion and state activist Uri Regev: Averting a theocracy
The Israeli lawyer/Reform rabbi explains how the judicial overhaul package may affect religious freedom – and the lack thereof – in the Holy Land
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Incoming Religious Services Minister Michael Malkieli signs an order delaying the implementation of a kashrut reform as Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, right, watches, in Malkieli's office in the Knesset on December 29, 2022. (Courtesy: Michael Malkieli's office)
December 29, 2022, 10:08 pm
New religious services minister delays kashrut reform as coalition looks to nix it
Shas’s Malkieli signs order putting off privatization of kosher supervision by six months, giving incoming government time to roll back predecessors’ initiative
By Judah Ari Gross
Then-Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana speaks during a Conference of the 'Besheva' group in Jerusalem, on August 1, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 3, 2022, 1:16 pm
Matan Kahana has upset the religious status quo, and his work won’t be easily undone
After a year in the Religious Services Ministry, Yamina MK gets a middling grade from liberal figures for shaking up Haredi hegemony but failing to advance core issues
By Judah Ari Gross
Customers sitting at Cafe Kadosh in Jerusalem, May 2020. The restaurant is one of hundreds in Israel that has opted for kosher certification outside the auspices of Israel's Chief Rabbinate. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 23, 2022, 5:56 am
As kashrut reform takes hold, businesses put their money where the mouths are
Now free to switch overseeing agencies, food establishment owners say they’ll do so only if it’s good for business — and it often isn’t
By Jessica Steinberg
Crave Jerusalem's 'facon' duck bacon on its Black Forest Special (Courtesy Crave)
January 21, 2022, 2:20 pm
Podcast: Can fakin’ bacon and moon-shaped croissants be called kosher?
Times Will Tell takes a closer look at the first step of Israel’s reforms in the kosher supervision system, and who’s making the decisions
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Chaim Druckman attends the campaign launch of the right-wing Yamina party, ahead of the Israeli general elections, February 12, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
December 2, 2021, 9:15 am
Prominent national-religious rabbis call for protests against government
Statement signed by rabbis Chaim Druckman, Dov Lior charges legislation backed by government on conversion, kashrut and Western Wall will ‘endanger the essence of the state’
By ToI Staff
Religious Affairs Minister Matan Kahana. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 11, 2021, 12:29 pm
An Orthodox minister and his hypocritical ultra-Orthodox critics
Matan Kahana’s reforms would bring ultra-Orthodox men into the workforce earlier, remake kashrut, bolster conversion – all according to halacha. Haredi leaders should be delighted
By David Horovitz
Matan Kahana (left), a former combat pilot and colonel (ret.) in the Israeli Air Force, pictured with his Yamina party leader, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (Courtesy)
November 9, 2021, 2:03 pm
The Orthodox revolutionary: How Matan Kahana aims to revive Israel’s Jewish identity
The minister of religious services has overhauled kashrut supervision, and is now turning to conversion, as he seeks to remake the state’s role in religion. Haredi MKs are outraged
By Tal Schneider and David Horovitz
Passengers at Ben Gurion train station near Tel Aviv on October 28, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
November 4, 2021, 1:45 pm
How much of a revolution? 13 key reforms in Israel’s new state budget
As the coalition finally gets a state budget approved, Israelis can expect major changes in education, consumer prices, transportation, and healthcare
By Ricky Ben-David
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