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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger on Monday night called for dayanim, or rabbinical judges, to shut down the 12 regional rabbinical courts in protest over the ongoing suspension of the appointments committee for rabbinical judges. The committee was suspended by t

If you have the misfortune to come to grief in the vast Negev desert you would probably give up all hope for survival. But I bet you’d start believing in miracles when you hear the approach of Magen David Adom’s new Israel Southern Emergency Lifesaving h

I don’t always see eye-to-eye with Abe Foxman of the Jewish Antidefamation League (ADL), but I want to give him his props on a recent statement issued by the ADL. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has called on the Chief Rabbinate of Israel to publicly de

When Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger tried to raise the Torah scroll at Kibbutz Ein Harod, he found it particularly difficult – the ceiling was too low. Metzger recently decided to spend Shabbat in the secular kibbutz. He arrived there before the start of the

Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger on Thursday contacted all 120 MKs and urged them to reject a Knesset bill that would grant couples the freedom to choose the rabbinate office where they marry. Acknowledging that it was unusual for a chief rabbi

JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Women may deliver eulogies at funerals, the Religious Services Ministry told Israeli burial societies. The directive released Tuesday comes after the ministry adopted a halachic ruling issued more than a year ago by Chief Ashkenazi Rab

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It is almost two years until Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom Lord Jonathan Sacks retires, but the search for his successor is already under way. The United Synagogue, the largest organization of Orthodox synagogues in Britain, has set up a search co

Two single women petitioned to the High Court of Justice, together with women's organizations, against Minister of Religious Affairs Yaakov Margi (Shas) and Israel's Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, demanding they permit single women, widows, divorcees to dip i

Kamal Subhi, formerly on the faculty of Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd University, recently joined other clerics in warning that if the Saudi ban on women driving is lifted, mixing of genders will increase and that, in turn, will encourage premarital relati

Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger said on Thursday that segregation between men and women should only be carried out in private, and not in public spaces. In the wake of the public debate over the exclusion of women from the public arena that has been rag

A group of ultra-Orthodox Jewish millionaires is considering funding a private bus line in Israel that would enforce strict segregation between male and female passengers, an Israeli newspaper has reported.The initiative follows public outrage at an inci