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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 434

Kolech

The elections of Israel's new chief rabbis in Jerusalem, September 29, 2024. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)
December 11, 2024, 7:34 pm
Feminist groups decry law setting quota for women in assembly that elects chief rabbis
Billed as an effort to increase female representation, measure actually serves to disenfranchise female Torah scholars, say critics
By Sam Sokol
Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi David Lau, left, attends a Chief Rabbinate Council meeting with his Sephardic counterpart Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef and David Lau's father and predecessor Meir Lau, in Jerusalem on December 24, 2023. (Courtesy of the Chief Rabbinate)
January 14, 2024, 11:37 pm
High Court rules women can fill ‘rabbi’ slots in Chief Rabbinate’s top bodies
Decision stops short of imposing female representation, but angers critics who accuse the justices of ‘aggressive’ overreach
By Canaan Lidor
The building of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel in Jerusalem (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 30, 2020, 5:33 pm
Rabbinate threatens strike if forced to train women in rabbinic laws
After AG tells High Court state will form parallel track to men-only ordination exams, Chief Rabbinate protests that it is not an ‘institute for higher education’
By Stuart Winer
Rabbi Mordechai Elon arrives at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court to hear his sentence, December 18, 2013. (photo credit: Meital Cohen/Flash90)
January 30, 2020, 3:12 pm
High Court petition seeks to strip ‘rabbi’ title from Moti Elon over sex crimes
Organizations take action against Chief Rabbinate of Israel decision allowing Elon to keep his honorific after he agreed to not serve in clerical roles
By ToI Staff
Screen capture from video of some 300,000 coins an ultra-Orthodox radio state used to pay a court-ordered fine to a feminist group, July 16, 2019. (Twitter)
July 18, 2019, 3:20 pm
Radio station pays fine to feminist group with 300,000 coins
Losing lawsuit for discrimination against women, ultra-Orthodox Kol Barama broadcaster delivers NIS 30,000 ($8,470) in bucket loads of the smallest denomination in Israeli currency
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Mordechai 'Moti' Elon seen in the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court prior to his sentence hearing, on December 18, 2013. (David Vaaknin/Flash 90)
July 7, 2019, 9:44 am
Women’s group seeks to strip ‘rabbi’ title from Moti Elon over sex offenses
Kolech to petition High Court against Chief Rabbinate decision allowing Elon to keep his honorific after agreeing to not serve in clerical roles
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
The broadcasting studio of the ultra-Orthodox radio station Kol Barama, July 1, 2009. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
June 28, 2019, 2:48 am
Ultra-Orthodox radio station won’t face crippling fines for exclusion of women
Kol Barama breathes sigh of relief as Supreme Court appeal seeking NIS 20 million in compensation pulled; outlet previously ordered to pay NIS 1 million in discrimination suit
By Marissa Newman
Ultra-Orthodox protesters vandalize an election poster of Jerusalem mayor candidate MK Rachel Azaria in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood on July 26, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 3, 2019, 9:40 am
Feminist campaign hits Jerusalem buses to compensate for defaced mayoral posters
After ultra-Orthodox vandalized her mayoral banners last summer, Rachel Azaria launches ‘I dream’ drive which envisions society without discrimination against women
By Stuart Winer
Karen Miller Jackson
April 27, 2018, 6:40 pm
Karen Miller Jackson
80 women teach Torah
It’s plain math: create more positions for female scholars of Jewish texts, and increase the potential reach of Judaism
The next generation of Jewish feminists? Eden Farber and Gefen Lavi at the Kollech conference (Elana Sztokman/The Times of Israel)
July 19, 2015, 5:07 am
Orthodox women aren’t just talking about a revolution, they’re driving one
At the 9th annual Kolech conference, Jewish feminists of all ages leave no stained-glass ceiling unshattered
By Elana Sztokman
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