Israel’s chief rabbis — known as the Rabbinate and the top authority for the country’s Orthodox institutions — do not ...

(RNS) — Israel’s state rabbinate must open up its rabbinic expertise exams to women, Israel’s supreme court said on Monday (July 14) in a ruling hailed by advocates for pluralism and egalitarianism in ...

A court decision allowing Israeli women to take the Chief Rabbinate’s exams is the latest sign of growing recognition for ...

(RNS) — The ruling does not call for the strictly Orthodox rabbinate to ordain women as rabbis but opens up to women the body’s licensing exams that test in a variety of areas of Jewish law. (RNS) — ...