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  • Nearly three decades after Israel began airlifting Ethiopia's ancient Jewish community out of the Horn of Africa, Israel's rabbis are now working to phase out the community's white-turbaned clergy, the kessoch, whose unusual religious practices are at odds with the rabbinate's Orthodox Judaism.

    www.startribune.com 2012

  • Nearly three decades after Israel began airlifting Ethiopia's ancient Jewish community out of the Horn of Africa, Israel's rabbis are now working to phase out the community's white-turbaned clergy, the kessoch, whose unusual religious practices are at odds with the rabbinate's Orthodox Judaism.

    The Seattle Times 2012

  • Committee and reignited the debate over the rabbinate's role in Israeli society.

    Articles 2010

  • But, although under that law a person can qualify for citizenship simply by having a Jewish father or grandparent, she (or he) will not be considered a Jew by the rabbinate's Orthodox standards without being able to trace a clear lineage of matrilineal Jewish roots, or else undergoing an

    Articles 2010

  • Rosenblum said that she sent a letter to MKs urging them to prevent the rabbinate's intervention.

    AWID RSS Feed 2010

  • The vast majority of American Jews would not advocate for a chief rabbinate in the United States, and they are understandably disinclined to increase the chief rabbinate's power in Israel.

    Your Moral Leader 2010

  • Therefore, it is also essential to break the rabbinate's monopoly on marriage.

    FailedMessiah.com 2010

  • Irit Rosenblum, head of New Family, an organization fighting to prevent religious influence in marital and birth issues, said the rabbinate's initiative constituted blatant intervention by men in women's decisions regarding their bodies.

    AWID RSS Feed 2010

  • But the rabbinate's message imparted to many soldiers the sense that "this operation was a religious war".

    News on www.kyivpost.com 2009

  • An overview of some of the army rabbinate's publications made available during the fighting reflects the tone of nationalist propaganda that steps blatantly into politics, sounds racist and can be interpreted as a call to challenge international law when it comes to dealing with enemy civilians ....

    unknown title 2009

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