rabbinate

Many immigrants assume that the rabbinic model they knew in their country of origin applies in Israel. This is not the case.

Why do hotel guests, some of them wealthy, accept the procedure of paying for late check-out abroad, but expect it gratis in Israel?

The direct cost of corrupt kashrut services is very high and burdens the economy with about $800 million, as well as raising the cost of almost all goods to our families, rich and poor.

The position of chief rabbi, which has a ten-year tenure, has become a political tool and the province of members of a few elite families who monopolize it.

The state-religious infrastructure has been used systematically to build a political power base.

Instead of passing laws that help the people and the nation, its members are focused on helping themselves, or in the case of the chief rabbinate, one of their brothers.

The makeup of the judicial selection committee is an issue that is still on the table, officials say.

According to Israeli law, the chief rabbis serve for 10 years, and religious councils for five years.

Yael and Aaron Agpov from Ukraine had tried to convert to Judaism in 2022, but then the war broke out. This, plus Israel's Kafkaesque bureaucracy, thrust them into uncertainty.

The number applying for conversion in the last decade has been low but even among those who did apply, fewer than half were able to complete the process.