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Watchdog calls to clarify criteria for city rabbi appointments
Jerusalem :: Israel | 1 day ago
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In a move to reduce the mixing of politics with religious appointments, a legal issues watchdog threatened this week to petition the High Court of Justice against the Religious Services Ministry unless the ministry publishes clear criteria for the appointment...
Tags: Mordechai Eisenberg, Sephardi, Ashkenazi, services minister, Ya'acov Margi, city rabbis, Israel, Jerusalem, Rabbi, Israeli Jews, Chief Rabbinate of Israel, Ashkenazi Jews, Ovadia Yosef, Chief Rabbi, Religion Belief, Shas
“Criticizing Israel and anti-Semitism often come together” - Chief Rabbi
Lon :: Burkina Faso | 3 days ago
Credibility Mr Yona Metzger, thank you very much for agreeing to give us this interview. You were on a list of the world’s most influential religious leaders published by the CBS last year...In the first place it has changed in a way that it happens no longer that...
Tags: Mr Yona Metzger, chief rabbi, Burkina Faso, Lon
Sacks makes 1st House of Lords speech
London :: United Kingdom | 5 days ago
Credibility In his maiden speech in the House of Lords on Thursday, Britain's Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks paid homage to Britain and said it was a sense of indebtedness to the country that drives Jews to make the vast contribution they make to society. "It took...
Tags: Muslim Council of Britain, House of Lords, chief rabbi, United Kingdom, London, Daud Abdullah, Jonathan Sacks, Judaism, Religion Belief
Metzger slams 'irresponsible' rabbis
Jerusalem :: Israel | 9 days ago
Credibility Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger voiced criticism Wednesday against a group of right-wing rabbis who said that it was forbidden according to Halacha to endanger Jews by releasing Palestinian terrorists in exchange for captured IDF soldier Gilad Schalit....
Tags: Noam Shalit, Gilad Shalit, Gilad Schalit, rabbis metzger, chief rabbis, rabbis amar, Yona Metzger, Rabbi Metzger, Rabbi Amar, rabbis yona, Israel, Jerusalem, Israeli Jews, Religion Belief, Shlomo Amar, Shalit, Rabbi, Kidnappings, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israeli soldiers, Israel-Gaza conflict, Dov Lior, Hanukkah, Politics, Haredi Judaism, Chief Rabbi, Hamas, Shlomo Goren
The rabbi's moral muddle | Madeleine Bunting
Dublin :: Ireland | 13 days ago
Credibility The chief rabbi's comments were the most muddled of any recent religious leader. His speech managed to combine so many problematic statements and assumptions that it is hard to know quite how to tease them all apart. Let's start with European parents...
Tags: chief rabbi, Europe, Ireland, Dublin, Natalism, Rabbi, Selfishness, Fertility, Population, Demography, Human geography, Religion Belief
IDF Chief Rabbi Threatens to Sue Haaretz for Slander
Jerusalem :: Israel | 15 days ago
Credibility IsraelNN.com) The IDF's Chief Rabbi has threatened a libel suit against the leftwing Haaretz newspaper if it will not publish an apology following the publication of an article claiming the rabbi said that religious warriors are better fighters than the...
Tags: Sue Haaretz, chief rabbi, Israel, Jerusalem, Haaretz, Religion Belief
Ceremony marks a year since Mumbai massacre
Brussels :: Belgium | 16 days ago
Credibility Some 2,000 Chabad emissaries and leaders, politicians, rabbis and businessmen are expected to attend a memorial service on Wednesday at Kfar Chabad marking the one year anniversary of a terror attack in Mumbai, India, that killed 172 people, including...
Tags: Rivka Holtzberg, Kfar Chabad, Rabbi Gabriel, rabbis gabriel, Belgium, Brussels, Mumbai attacks, Nariman House, Gavriel Holtzberg, Chabad house, Chabad, Menachem Brod, Sandra Samuel, Chief Rabbi, Chabad outreach, Shaliach, Religion Belief
Falling birth rate is killing Europe, says chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks
London :: United Kingdom | 28 days ago
Credibility Europe is "dying" because its citizens are too selfish to have children, the chief rabbi has said, blaming a dwindling birthrate on a culture of "consumerism and instant gratification". Sir Jonathan Sacks accused people of caring more about shopping than...
Tags: Europe, chief rabbi
Kaminski ties continue to shame the Tories
Warsaw :: Poland | about 1 month ago
Credibility William Hague and David Miliband's t�te-�-t�te on the Today programme this morning has put the party's relationship with Polish MEP Michal Kaminski under new scrutiny. At the centre of the debate are the comments first made about Kaminski by the Chief...
Tags: Michal Kaminski, Mr Kaminski, Michael Kaminski, David Miliband, chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich
Rabbi draws Israeli lawmakers wrath
Jerusalem :: Israel | 5 months ago
Credibility Members of Israel's parliament called for the ouster of the army's chief rabbi who reportedly said women should not have to serve in the military. Maariv reported Thursday Israeli parliamentarians were outraged over statements allegedly made by Brig.
Tags: IDF Spokesperson's Unit, Israeli, IDF Rabbi, chief rabbi, israel defense, Avichai Ronsky, idf chief, weeks ago, Defense Forces, Avichai Ronski
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