“The rabbinate is very scared of anything that ... ghettos to the modern reality of the State of Israel, which has an army. “Rabbis still have not developed a sensitivity for the need to ...

They have called out the rigid Haredi-run chief rabbinate and the so-called "religious ... and that assimilating them into regular army units was more trouble than it was worth.

Israel’s Chief Rabbinate issued a letter to Berlin’s Chabad rabbi upholding the importance of a controversial circumcision rite, metzitzah b’peh. BERLIN (JTA) — Israel’s Chief Rabbinate ...