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Yisrael Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Liberman revealed the reason for his fierce opposition to joining Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the right-wing bloc in a...

It was six months ago when Israel's High Court of Justice granted the state a six-month extension to legislate a new Conversion Law to...

The stories that trickle in to the Kupat Ha’Ir office might shock you: large families of children abandoned after car accidents, kallahs living on...

Cheif Rabbi of Jerusalem, Hagaon HaRav Shlomo Amar sent an urgent letter to Rabbinic leaders of the National Religious camp Rabbis Chaim Drukman and...

An Air Force officer and former evangelical Christian chaplain was discriminated against both when he converted to Orthodox Judaism and when his recent application...

Rabbi Nachum Rabinovich Shlita, the Av Beis Din of the Giyur K’halacha Beis Din, has come out against a draft of a bill that...

Chareidi lawmakers are working to legislate a bill that would disqualify the recognition by the state of Reform and Conservative conversions. The bill also...

At the end of the another hearing, which took place on Wednesday 7 Tammuz at the Supreme Rabbinical Court in Jerusalem, the outcome was...

Chief Rabbi of Israel HaGaon HaRav Dovid Lau Shlita overruled a decision by the Petach Tikvah Rabbanut, explaining the Chief Rabbinate of Israel accepts...

In a ceremony held last weekend in Kiev, participants of the 'Triguboff Institute' 'Maslul' project marked the completion of the first phase of their...

The Petach Tikvah Rabbinate has rejected a conversion that was performed by Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, a leading modern Orthodox rabbi in New York City....

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times It is a quandary that many non-observant Jewish families face: For one reason or another,...

Beersheva Chief Rabbi Yehuda Deri announced that mikvaos in his city are for Orthodox tevila only, stating he will not permit a Reform convert...

Hiddush head, Reformed Rabbi Uri Regev, called for “using stern measures and prosecuting the man who burned a prayer book at the Kotel.” According...

The following statement was released by a spokesman for the Chief Rabbinate of Israel in the name of Rishon L’Tzion Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef Shlita....

Israel’s Supreme Court on Thursday, 2 Adar I, ruled in favor of approving non-Orthodox conversions. The court ruled that a Reform or Conservative Jew...

The Tzohar Rabbinical Organization, which has been a major force in the effort to reform the halachic conversion process in Israel, described the passage...

Speaking to Israel Radio on Monday morning 3 Shevat 5773, Yisrael Beitenu leader Avigdor Lieberman expressed his outrage over the Shas election infomercial in...

IDF Chief Rabbi Brigadier-General Rafi Peretz defends IDF conversions to yiddishkheit, explaining the historic p’sak halacha by Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef Shlita gives...

A plan to bring 1,000 missionaries to Israel, under the guise of newly converted Jews seeking to settle the Shomron, is picking up steam, Yad...

Hagon Rav Shmuel Halevi Wosner Shlita, paid a visit to Hagon Chacham Ovadia Yosef today, at his home on Rechov HaKablan in Har Nof,...

According to Ynet, Hagon Chacham Ovadia Yosef Shlita, authorized a number of senior Rabbonim on Sunday to add clarifications on his behalf to his...

Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar has adopted Rabbi Ovadia Yosef's halachic ruling which legitimizes all conversions performed by the Israel Defense Forces in recent years,...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided Sunday not to hold a government vote on the military conversions bill. Netanyahu discussed the matter with Shas Ministers...

The spiritual leader of Shas, Chacham Ovadia Yosef, ordered the party on Wednesday to express his discontent with a recent decision to respect IDF...

Gedoley Hador Shlita have released a Kol Koreh against the IDF conversion track, while expressing support for marriage registrars who do not recognize former soldiers...

IDF conversions are not being performed by rabbinical judges and were not approved by the Chief Rabbinate, an attorney for the State told the...

The Prime Minister's Office announced Thursday evening that a compromise agreement has been reached by which the Knesset vote on the conversion bill will...

The Rabbinical Council of America is fully aware of the current significant and broad-ranging communal debate regarding the so-called Rotem legislation in the Israel...

Shas Chairman Eli Yishai says that "the absence of a conversion law is the greatest spiritual danger for the people of Israel at this...

On the backdrop of recent tensions with Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu clarified Sunday morning that he is against the controversial...

A sharp letter was sent to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu from the Jewish Federations of N. America regarding a compromise being hammered out regarding...

The second phase of the $63 million project turning an 8-mile stretch of Route 17 into Interstate 86 will start next month, says Scott...

MK (Yahadut HaTorah) Moshe Gafne, who happens to head the Knesset Finance Committee, does not appear to be anxious to comply with a landmark...

Justice Minister Prof. Yaakov Ne'eman during a Tuesday afternoon visit to the home of Maran Rav Elyashiv Shlita discussed the landmark High Court of...