While many rabbis are arguing over who will be the next Chief Rabbis of Israel, the Rabbinic Cabinet of Memizrach Shemesh is raising a voice against the proposed Israeli budget. Below is a translation of the first paragraph: We, the below signed, are rabbis in Israel who come into daily contact with Am Yisrael. We [...]
One of the towering figures of the Israeli history and Religious Zionism is Rabbi Shlomo Goren. He is one of those figures without whom the present would probably have been very different. There is already a biography of Rav Goren in English, Rabbi Shlomo Goren: Torah Sage and General, and he has been the subject [...]
Vered Noam recently wrote an article in Hebrew about women and Jewish law in the Israeli National-Religious community. The article, which I wrote about here, caused quite a large amount of discussion. You can read the responses (H) that were published in Musaf Shabbat of Makor Rishon, or some of the close to seven hundred [...]
In 1965 Rav Soloveitchik was interviewed for Maariv by Geula Cohen. The interview touched upon numerous topics, among them the office of the Chief Rabbi. The interview (Hebrew) has been posted online and can be found here. (HT)
Torah Va’Avodah has been promoting a communal model for the Rabbinate and religion-state relations in Israel. Below is a video that presents this model. A longer description can be found here.
Yehezkel Cohen z”l, the found of Neemnei Torah va-Avodah, passed away yesterday and was buried in Jerusalem. Ne’emanei Torah Va’Avodah, a religious-Zionist movement that seeks to return Religious Zionism to its roots, works to create a thinking religious culture that is open and self-critical, and encourages a courageous halakhic discourse that deals with the challenges [...]
Last year I posted about a documentary that was broadcast on Israel TV about Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef. I recently found the documentary with English subtitles. It is worth a view for those who were unable understand the Hebrew original.
With the latest interest in some quarters about insulting religious figures, here is a link to a post of mine from a few years ago about a Jew who wanted to learn from the Muslims and punish those who insulted cohanim (priests). Also, see the end of this post by Marc Shapiro about an article [...]
The Israeli religious-zionist rabbinic organization Tzohar has begun a campaign (see here for the booklet) calling for changes in policies and spirit of the Chief Rabbinate. (Ynet) Among the platforms that they are calling for are the appointment of rabbinical court judges who actually decide according to what the Chief Rabbis decide, support for a [...]
I have seen a number of interesting discussions as a result of Immanuel Etkes’s review of Benny Brown’s book on the Ḥazon Ish. Etkes’s review is titled, “When rabbis are turned into saints,” giving some idea about one of the important issues that both the book and his review address. Ynet has an article (Hebrew) [...]
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