rabbinate

The chief rabbinate is not credible a religious authority even within israel - its a political appointment.

God comes down to tell the rabbinate that they've made a mistake and the rabbis tell God that his opinion doesn't matter.

The Rabbinate should not have as much power as it does.

The vatican and the israeli rabbinate are largely political entities.

So I checked — and it turns out that the rabbinate which oversees it is actually not orthodox, but reconstructionist or something.

Just the opposite, if the Rabbinate decided that they've never heard of these little bugs in the water and so they don't count, that would be myopic.

If I wanted to get married, by law, I am forced to get approval from the Jewish Rabbinate and follow religious protocols that make my skin crawl.

[0] Similarly, the many joint declarations between the Vatican and Chief Rabbinate of Israel, which frequently invoke shared faith in the same God and shared Scripture.

Although the central Rabbinate covers most kosher foods, the more orthodox will often defer to the authority of particular rabbis and buy from a smaller set of products than all of what is nominally kosher.

The article makes it clear that the Israeli rabbinate considers "Jewishness" something that has nothing to do with practice, but with blood and descent.

[1] "The only real theocracy left in the world." That would have to include Israel, an apartheid state along religious lines where the Chief Rabbinate decides who can get married.

Literacy among "country bumpkins" was nearly universal 300 years ago among the New England colonists, fueled by movable-type printing and the Protestant rejection of priestly intermediaries, despite lacking the Imperial civil service examination system or the rabbinate as an incentive to study.

I am not familiar with the Rabbinate's position on that, but 99% of the Jewish world recognizes you as a Jew.

I concede, though I think this is a later innovation of the Rabbinate; Gehenna is an actual place, an ancient garbage dump, on the outskirts of Jerusalem.