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Yona Metzger

Yona Metzger

  1. Montenegro recognizes Jewish community
    Ynetnews logo Ynetnews 2 days ago

    The Prime Minister of Montenegro Igor Lukšić has signed an agreement with Jewish community leaders to recognize the Jewish community as an official minority in Montenegro. The agreement was signed during an official ceremony held with representatives of

  2. University of Miami Hospital Unveils Jewish Visitors Suite
    Chabad.org logo Chabad.org 1 week ago
    University of Miami trustee Stuart Miller cuts the ribbon leading to a new Jewish visitors suite at the university’s hospital as Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine dean Dr. Pascal J. Goldschmidt and Israeli Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger look on. (Photo: University of Miami Communications)

    Jewish patients and family members now have a spot they can call their own at the University of Miami Hospital after the Civic Center institution unveiled a “bikur cholim room” with the help of Israeli Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger. “There are a lot of rooms

  3. AP Photo logo AP Photo 4 months ago
    Noam, second right, Aviva Schalit, center, parents of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit, his brother Yoel, second left, Yaara, Yoel's girlfriend, talk with Rabbi Yona Metzger, Chief Rabbi of Israel, in a protest tent set up outside the Prime...

    Noam, second right, Aviva Schalit, center, parents of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit, his brother Yoel, second left, Yaara, Yoel's girlfriend, talk with Rabbi Yona Metzger, Chief Rabbi of Israel, in a protest tent set up outside the Prime... View Photo »

  4. Israel Jails Man for Refusing Divorce
    Drudge ReTort: Red Meat for Yellow Dogs logo Drudge ReTort: Red Meat for Yellow Dogs 1 week ago

    Israel's supreme rabbinical court of appeals has upheld a life sentence against a man who has refused for 10 years to give his wife a divorce. Meir Gorodetzki has been jailed since 2001 for refusing to grant a bill of divorce, called a get, to his wife T

  5. ISRAEL: Archbishop of Canterbury meets with chief rabbis
    Virtue Online logo Virtue Online 1 week ago

    ISRAEL: Archbishop of Canterbury meets with chief rabbis Rowan Williams emphasized "the importance of constructive dialogue and co-existence between all religions," during visit to Israel By JEREMY SHARON The Jerusalem Post http://www.jpost.com/JewishWor

  6. Man must OK divorce to get out of prison
    United Press International logo United Press International 1 week ago

    Published: Feb. 6, 2012 at 10:35 AM JERUSALEM, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Israel's supreme rabbinical court of appeals upheld a ruling to keep a man imprisoned until he grants his wife a bill of divorce. Meir Gorodetzki was sent to prison by the court for refusing

  7. Getty Images logo Getty Images 4 months ago
    Noam Shalit, father of abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit who was captured in 2006 by Hamas-allied militants in the Gaza Strip, sits next to an empty chairs reserved for his son while talking with Chief Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger at the family's...

    Noam Shalit, father of abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit who was captured in 2006 by Hamas-allied militants in the Gaza Strip, sits next to an empty chairs reserved for his son while talking with Chief Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger at the family's... View Photo »

  8. Interview with Rab Yona Metzger Part 1 of 2
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  9. Archbishop of Canterbury meets with chief rabbis
    Jerusalem Post 1 week ago
    ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY Dr. Rowan Williams (right

    Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams met with Chief Rabbis Yona Metzger and Shlomo Amar on Thursday during a week-long personal pilgrimage to Israel and the West Bank. The office of the Diocese of Jerusalem of the Anglican Church said that during

  10. University of Miami Hospital Dedicates Bikur Cholim Room
    UM Miller School of Medicine 2 weeks ago

    After reciting blessings in Hebrew, Rabbi Yona Metzger, Chief Rabbi of Israel, placed a mezuzah, the parchment prayer scroll that marks a Jewish home, at the entrance of the modest but comfortable room where members of the Jewish faith can now find solac

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About Yona Metzger

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Yona Metzger (יונה מצגר) (born 1953) is the current Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, appointed in 2003. His counterpart is Rabbi Shlomo Amar, the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel. He is the first sabra Chief Rabbi. Full Article

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Israel's President Shimon Peres (C) stands with Israel's Chief Rabbis Yona Metzger (R) and Shlomo Amar (L) and Sheikh Mohammad Quiwan (2nd L) as he speaks to the media from a burnt mosque in the Bedouin village of Tuba Zangaria in northern Israel October 3, 2011. The mosque was set on...
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  1. Israel's President Shimon Peres (C) stands with Israel's Chief Rabbis Yona Metzger (R) and Shlomo Amar (L) and Sheikh Mohammad Quiwan (2nd L) as he speaks to the media from a burnt mosque in the Bedouin village of Tuba Zangaria in northern Israel October 3, 2011. The mosque was set on... Reuters Pictures logo Reuters Pictures 4 months ago

    Israel's President Shimon Peres (C) stands with Israel's Chief Rabbis Yona Metzger (R) and Shlomo Amar (L) and Sheikh Mohammad Quiwan (2nd L) as he speaks to the media from a burnt mosque in the Bedouin village of Tuba Zangaria in northern Israel October 3, 2011. The mosque was set on...

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  2. Israeli President Shimon Peres (C), accompanied by Chief Rabbis Yona Metzger (R), Shlomo Amar (L) and Sheikh Mohammed Quwan (2nd L), inspects a mosque in which was torched overnight in the Bedouin village of Tuba Zangaria, in the northern Galilee, on October 3, 2011. Vandals torched the... Getty Images logo Getty Images 4 months ago

    Israeli President Shimon Peres (C), accompanied by Chief Rabbis Yona Metzger (R), Shlomo Amar (L) and Sheikh Mohammed Quwan (2nd L), inspects a mosque in which was torched overnight in the Bedouin village of Tuba Zangaria, in the northern Galilee, on October 3, 2011. Vandals torched the...

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  3. BERLIN, GERMANY - JUNE 19: High Rabbi Yona Metzger from Israel speaks to rabbies at an ordination ceremony at Gedola Yeshiva at the Chabad Education Center on June 19, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. Rabbinical centers across Germany are generating a new generation of rabbis to serve a... Getty Images logo Getty Images 8 months ago

    BERLIN, GERMANY - JUNE 19: High Rabbi Yona Metzger from Israel speaks to rabbies at an ordination ceremony at Gedola Yeshiva at the Chabad Education Center on June 19, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. Rabbinical centers across Germany are generating a new generation of rabbis to serve a...

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  4. BERLIN, GERMANY - JUNE 19: High Rabbi Yona Metzger from Israel is pictured at the Chabad Education Center on June 19, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. Rabbinical centers across Germany are generating a new generation of rabbis to serve a growing Jewish population in Germany and elsewhere. Getty Images logo Getty Images 8 months ago

    BERLIN, GERMANY - JUNE 19: High Rabbi Yona Metzger from Israel is pictured at the Chabad Education Center on June 19, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. Rabbinical centers across Germany are generating a new generation of rabbis to serve a growing Jewish population in Germany and elsewhere.

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  5. BERLIN, GERMANY - JUNE 19: High Rabbi Yona Metzger from Israel speaks at an ordination ceremony for six rabbinical students at Gedola Yeshiva at the Chabad Education Center on June 19, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. Rabbinical centers across Germany are generating a new generation of rabbis... Getty Images logo Getty Images 8 months ago

    BERLIN, GERMANY - JUNE 19: High Rabbi Yona Metzger from Israel speaks at an ordination ceremony for six rabbinical students at Gedola Yeshiva at the Chabad Education Center on June 19, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. Rabbinical centers across Germany are generating a new generation of rabbis...

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  6. BERLIN, GERMANY - JUNE 19: High Rabbi Yona Metzger from Israel (2nd L) comes together with other rabbies to an ordination ceremony at Gedola Yeshiva at the Chabad Education Center on June 19, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. Rabbinical centers across Germany are generating a new generation of... Getty Images logo Getty Images 8 months ago

    BERLIN, GERMANY - JUNE 19: High Rabbi Yona Metzger from Israel (2nd L) comes together with other rabbies to an ordination ceremony at Gedola Yeshiva at the Chabad Education Center on June 19, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. Rabbinical centers across Germany are generating a new generation of...

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  7. Chief Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger talks during the grand opening of the headquarters for the Manischewitz company, Tuesday, June 14, 2011 in Newark, N.J. A large matzo was baked during the inauguration of the kosher product company. AP Photo logo AP Photo 8 months ago

    Chief Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger talks during the grand opening of the headquarters for the Manischewitz company, Tuesday, June 14, 2011 in Newark, N.J. A large matzo was baked during the inauguration of the kosher product company.

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  8. Noam, second right, Aviva Schalit, center, parents of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit, his brother Yoel, second left, Yaara, Yoel's girlfriend, talk with Rabbi Yona Metzger, Chief Rabbi of Israel, in a protest tent set up outside the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem,... AP Photo logo AP Photo 4 months ago

    Noam, second right, Aviva Schalit, center, parents of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit, his brother Yoel, second left, Yaara, Yoel's girlfriend, talk with Rabbi Yona Metzger, Chief Rabbi of Israel, in a protest tent set up outside the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem,...

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  9. Noam Shalit, father of abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit who was captured in 2006 by Hamas-allied militants in the Gaza Strip, sits next to an empty chairs reserved for his son while talking with Chief Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger at the family's protest tent in Jerusalem on... Getty Images logo Getty Images 4 months ago

    Noam Shalit, father of abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit who was captured in 2006 by Hamas-allied militants in the Gaza Strip, sits next to an empty chairs reserved for his son while talking with Chief Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger at the family's protest tent in Jerusalem on...

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  10. JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - OCTOBER 12: Noam Schalit (L), father of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit,listens to Israel's Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger at a protest tent set up outside the Prime Minister's residence on October 12, 2011 in Jerusalem, Israel. An agreement has been made... Getty Images logo Getty Images 4 months ago

    JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - OCTOBER 12: Noam Schalit (L), father of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit,listens to Israel's Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger at a protest tent set up outside the Prime Minister's residence on October 12, 2011 in Jerusalem, Israel. An agreement has been made...

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  11. TUBA ZANGARIA, ISRAEL - OCTOBER 3: Israeli President Shimon Peres (C), speaks while Rabbi Shlomo Amar (L), Sheikh Mohamad Quiwan (2nd L) Israeli Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger (2nd R) listen, at a mosque which was set on fire October 3, 2011 in the Bedouin village of Tuba Zangaria, located... Getty Images logo Getty Images 4 months ago

    TUBA ZANGARIA, ISRAEL - OCTOBER 3: Israeli President Shimon Peres (C), speaks while Rabbi Shlomo Amar (L), Sheikh Mohamad Quiwan (2nd L) Israeli Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger (2nd R) listen, at a mosque which was set on fire October 3, 2011 in the Bedouin village of Tuba Zangaria, located...

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  12. BERLIN, GERMANY - JUNE 19: The newly ordinated rabbies, (L-R) Israel Bistrizky, Chaim Weissmann,Chaim Rivkin, the rabbi of Cholon Yochanan Gurary, the high rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger, Meir Eidelman, Yakov Eigerman, Yechiel Weizman, pose for a Photograph after their ordination... Getty Images logo Getty Images 8 months ago

    BERLIN, GERMANY - JUNE 19: The newly ordinated rabbies, (L-R) Israel Bistrizky, Chaim Weissmann,Chaim Rivkin, the rabbi of Cholon Yochanan Gurary, the high rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger, Meir Eidelman, Yakov Eigerman, Yechiel Weizman, pose for a Photograph after their ordination...

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  13. Newark Mayor Cory Booker, left, and Manischewitz Company CEO Alain Bankier, center, laugh at a comment made by Chief Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger during the grand opening of the headquarters for the Manischewitz company, Tuesday, June 14, 2011 in Newark, N.J. A large matzo was baked during... AP Photo logo AP Photo 8 months ago

    Newark Mayor Cory Booker, left, and Manischewitz Company CEO Alain Bankier, center, laugh at a comment made by Chief Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger during the grand opening of the headquarters for the Manischewitz company, Tuesday, June 14, 2011 in Newark, N.J. A large matzo was baked during...

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  14. Israeli youths dance while waving Israeli flags as they greet Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, not seen, prior to a prayer at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, marking Israel's 63rd Independence Day, in Jerusalem, Monday, May 9, 2011. AP Photo logo AP Photo 9 months ago

    Israeli youths dance while waving Israeli flags as they greet Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, not seen, prior to a prayer at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, marking Israel's 63rd Independence Day, in Jerusalem, Monday, May 9, 2011.

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Israel's President Shimon Peres (C) stands with Israel's Chief Rabbis Yona Metzger (R) and Shlomo Amar (L) and Sheikh Mohammad Quiwan (2nd L) as he speaks to the media from a burnt mosque in the Bedouin village of Tuba Zangaria in northern Israel October 3, 2011. The mosque was set on...

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