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Jews read the Megillat Esther (the Book of Esther) on the eve of the Jewish holiday of Purim, in Katzrin, northern Israel, on March 13, 2025. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
March 2, 2026, 4:44 pm
From Zoom megillahs to sirens during reading, all you need to know about Purim at war
In light of the emergency situation, Israel’s Home Front Command has banned public gatherings, including recitations of the Book of Esther. Leading rabbis weigh in on how to celebrate
By Rossella Tercatin
People walk at the Mahaneh Yehudah Market in Jerusalem, during Israel's 76th Independence Day on May 13, 2024. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)
April 30, 2025, 5:08 pm
As Israel shifts from sorrow to joy, rabbinic group offers new prayer for grieving nation
Drafted by Tzohar, the prayer aims to help the public navigate the painful transition from Memorial Day to Independence Day amid ongoing trauma and hostage crisis
By Rossella Tercatin
Religious Services Minister Michael Malkieli attends a session ain the Knesset plenum, April 15, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
March 9, 2025, 10:57 pm
Religious Services minister backs down from bid to control appointments of city rabbis
Following High Court petition by Tzohar and ITIM groups, Michael Malkieli rolls back regulations guaranteeing him control of selection committees
By Rossella Tercatin
Illustrative: Anti-government protesters and police stand next to the Jerusalem Rabbinate and Religious Council, May 4, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 20, 2024, 1:58 pm
Critics charge new regulations will hand Shas control over municipal rabbinates
‘They will actually control all the local rabbinates, all the local rabbis in Israel,’ says Rabbi David Stav from the liberal Tzohar rabbinic group
By Sam Sokol
Dan Damri who was murdered by Hamas terrorists while fleeing the Supernova music festival on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy)
October 13, 2024, 11:00 pm
Dan Damri, 21: Partygoer who ‘raised everyone’s spirits’
Murdered by Hamas while fleeing the Supernova music festival on Oct. 7
By ToI Staff
Adam Hajaj speaks during a rally for hostages in Gaza in Tel Aviv on August 10, 2024. (Hostages and Missing Families Forum)
August 12, 2024, 3:54 pm
October 7 trauma reconnects Israelis with a 2,000-year-old Jewish day of mourning
Thousands of synagogues prepare to feature lamentations about the Hamas atrocities, on Tisha B’Av, a fast day that commemorates historical – and now contemporary – tragedies
By Canaan Lidor
Rabbi David Stav, cofounder and chairman of the Tzohar rabbinical organization. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
December 24, 2023, 2:49 pm
A leading Religious Zionist rabbi hopes a post-Oct. 7 Israeli faith resurgence endures
As Israel fights its enemies, Tzohar co-founder Rabbi David Stav sees Jewish Israelis turning to their religion and unifying around it — but he worries about a post-war slump
By Ben Sales
Pro- and anti-overhaul demonstrators hold prayers at the Western Wall, in Jerusalem, July 23, 2023. (Charlie Summers/The Times of Israel)
July 23, 2023, 1:20 pm
Activists on both sides of overhaul debate hold mass Western Wall prayer for unity
Ahead of Tisha B’Av, organizers of gathering and subsequent march in Jerusalem plead with sparring parties to think of the destruction brought on by discord
By Canaan Lidor and Charlie Summers
Religious supervision at a fruit and vegetable company, March 20, 2016 (Yaakov Naumi/FLASH90)
June 21, 2023, 5:48 pm
High Court says Rabbinate must review exclusion of competitor’s kosher certification
Court rules in favor of a petition by the Tzohar rabbinical group against its exclusion from labeling imported goods
By Canaan Lidor
Israelis attend a Passover seder in Mishmar David, April 15, 2022. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
April 3, 2023, 4:32 pm
New Passover guide aims to help families with loved ones living with dementia
Tzohar and Emda organizations team up to provide practical guidance on how to follow Jewish law while including the ill in holiday traditions as best as possible
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Rabbi David Stav, cofounder and chairman of the Tzohar rabbinical organization. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
March 22, 2023, 12:25 am
Leading rabbi calls for public day of fasting to heal overhaul discord
Tzohar founder Rabbi David Stav issues plea for prayers and refraining from food Wednesday ‘so our leaders find the way to continue this tremendous project — the State of Israel’
By Canaan Lidor
Rabbi Zvi Tau in 2018. (Screenshot)
November 10, 2022, 11:05 am
National religious rabbis urge probe of sex abuse allegations against Rabbi Tau
Rabbis Yuval Cherlow and David Stav of Tzohar say police must investigate claims against ultra-conservative religious leader
By Amy Spiro
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
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on May 8, 2022 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash 90)
May 9, 2022, 2:00 pm
Daily Briefing May 9: Knesset starts summer session as Russia mulls options
Political correspondent Tal Schneider discusses what’s ahead in the Knesset as diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman looks at Victory Day’s ramifications for Ukraine
By ToI Staff
Some of the menu options at Ruhan, a previously kosher bistro cocktail bar at the Brown Jerusalem hotel, which was using vegan Redefine meat in some dishes in order to expand its kosher options (Courtesy Anatoly Michaelo)
May 8, 2022, 4:04 pm
Jerusalem cocktail bar drops kosher certification in bid for broader clientele
The Brown Jerusalem hotel’s Ruhan cocktail bar switches to non-kosher menu after four months as a Tzohar-certified brasserie
By Jessica Steinberg
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