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Ashkenazi chief rabbi David Lau
Rabbi David Lau (ידידיה לאו/Wikipedia)
December 30, 2021, 4:43 pm
Israeli chief rabbi threatens to freeze conversions amid proposed reforms
Ashkenazi leader David Lau said he wouldn't approve future conversion to protest political changes that may challenge his authority
By JTA
Supreme Court president Esther Hayut (left), pictured at her appointment in October 2017 (Credit: Israeli Government Press Office)
March 1, 2021, 5:37 pm
Landmark ruling paves way for Israel to recognise non-Orthodox conversion
Monday's High Court decision could allow converts through the Reform and Conservative streams to apply for Israeli citizenship
By Michael Daventry
St. Peter's Square from the top of Michelangelo's dome
October 29, 2019, 5:50 pm
Israel’s Chief Rabbinate signs interfaith document at Vatican against euthanasia
Orthodox Jewish leaders jointed with Christian and Muslim religious figures to denounce physician-assisted suicide
By JTA
Rabbi David Lau (ידידיה לאו/Wikipedia)
August 20, 2019, 4:13 pm
Israeli chief rabbi forces man to grant get by refusing to bury his mother
After ten years of refusing to grant a religious divorce, a man has been forced to give his wife the separation after Ashkenazi rabbi David Lau's ultimatum
By Jewish News Reporter
Landing in Israel after making aliyah
January 2, 2019, 4:29 pm
Most immigrants to Israel in 2018 were ‘not Jewish’
Figures released by Central Bureau of Statistics show that 17,000 of the 30,300 new immigrants would not halachically be accepted
By Joe Millis
Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef
October 11, 2018, 2:53 pm
Israeli chief rabbis set out peace plan at Kazakhstan interfaith meeting
Sephardi Chief Yitzhak Yosef and Ashkenazi counterpart, David Lau, take part in landmark gathering in Astana
By Joe Millis
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