Israeli Chief Rabbinate
Daniel Gordis argued in this 2019 conversation that Israeli and American Jews are fundamentally divided. With a new government now in place, has he been proven correct?
The Israeli intellectual joins us to explain his country’s newest conversion controversy, and the underlying tensions it illuminates within Israeli public life.
A question that gets to the heart of Jewish identity.
Another casualty of the peace process.
Even chief rabbis have obligations to the Jewish people.
Increasing numbers of young people are simply bypassing the rabbinic establishment.
Setting the record straight on the Haiyun affair.
Halakhic rulings from the diaspora may not always apply well to Israeli realities.
Halakhic federalism.
Two moments of Italian Jewish distinctiveness.
Agnon or Herzog?
Look to the bureaucracy.
Furious and extreme proposals in response to two Israeli government decisions are ill-reasoned and immature.