Rabbinate in a sentence

Elections for the Chief Rabbinate, which were due to be held in August, have been postponed until after the municipal elections on October 31, Religious Services Minister Michael Malchieli said.

Instead, the book was, like Kushner’s rabbinate, a call to action.

On-board the two friends spent much time debating the challenges facing the American rabbinate and how to best solve them.

The enmity caused was so palatable that was when R. Yudelovitz passed away in Bayonne, N.J., in 1930, his funeral was boycotted by most of the New York rabbinate, though thousands of laymen attended.

At the same time, the majority decision said the rabbinate must formulate written rules on the issue within a year.

Meanwhile, the experience has also been a ride for Yeshurun, who had been weighing leaving the rabbinate to become a doctor before deciding to accept the job at the congregation.

Note that the structure of an “official rabbinate” in Eretz Yisrael is on a British model, one in which members of the political leadership, many if not most of whom are not Anglicans, choose the leadership and doctrines of the Church of England.

But Kin says in the video that neither Lau nor anyone from the chief rabbinate contacted him nor did he or his family place a deposit to insure the get.

Currently, Jewish marriage and conversion is controlled by the Orthodox Rabbinate which refuses to carry out civil marriages.

Due to the requirement of the Rabbinate to close on Shabbat to be awarded approval, many restaurants choose to serve non-kosher food all the time – largely because it generally costs less money than to serve kosher.

For Jews wishing to get married in Israel, they must go through the Chief Rabbinate, which is administered under stringent ultra-Orthodox rules.

For starters, this isn’t the only civil rights abuse that the Rabbinate, which is led by ultra-Orthodox clerics, perpetrates.

For the Jewish majority, that authority falls to the haredi Orthodox Chief Rabbinate, which doesn’t recognize non-Orthodox weddings held in Israel.

Had the rabbinical court ruled that such a wedding is valid, they will have approved of weddings conducted outside the Rabbinate.

Likewise, the expansion of the Geonic ordinance in order to classify any non-Rabbinate wedding as “private” is hyperbole, to say the least.

Why isn’t the Chief Rabbinate concerned about McDonald’s doing business on Shabbat and selling food to Jews?

Both dangers are on display in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and to a lesser degree, in the Israeli chief rabbinate.

But following Weiss’ initial rejection in 2013, former rabbinate spokesman Ziv Maor told JTA that examining the credentials of Orthodox rabbis is crucial to the integrity of the evaluation process.

Israel's haredi Orthodox Chief Rabbinate is largely in control of religious affairs in Israel, and does not recognize the Conservative and Reform movements as legitimate Jewish streams.

Recent developments underscore the need to move on to a different model of religion-state relations — and abolish the Chief Rabbinate as an arm of the state.