“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 ...

This initiative, developed with the support of the Military Rabbinate and guided by religious ... gender-specific combat framework, to which the army readily agreed. Over the past few weeks ...

The object comes encased in a weatherproof holy ark that has shoulder straps and can function as a podium on which to read scripture.

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 ...