JONAH MANDEL
Treasury agrees to dramatic hike in city rabbis' wages
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=221860
05/23/2011
A new city rabbi will earn about 80%of what the city's director general's salary is, treasury wage chief tells Knesset Finance C'tee.
The Treasury has agreed to a dramatic increase in the salaries of new city rabbis, a senior Finance Ministry official announced Monday during a meeting of the Knesset's Finance Committee.
Group petitions court to halt vote on Jerusalem chief rabbi
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=214363
Ne'emanei Torah Ve'avoda file petition asking the court to basically reduce the weight of the religious services minister in the process.
03/30/2011
Rabbi Dichovsky appointed director of rabbinic courts
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=210409
Dichovsky is a haredi rabbinic judge who is considered relatively open-minded and progressive.
03/02/2011
Group petitions court to halt vote on Jerusalem chief rabbi
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=214363
Ne'emanei Torah Ve'avoda file petition asking the court to basically reduce the weight of the religious services minister in the process.
03/30/2011
Eight haredi, four Zionist rabbinical judges chosen
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=196098
Rabbi Shlomo Dichovsky to head rabbinical courts for three more months as panel fails to reach agreement on successor to Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan.
11/21/2010
Debate over Kollel-student stipends goes to 'the sources'
MK Gafni: "I totally disagree with what your letter states regarding income assurance, historically but primarily halachically."
As the debate over funding for Torah study in the draft 2011/12 state budget intensifies, members of the Knesset's Economic Affairs Committee received a lesson on the Jewish sources regarding that issue, courtesy of the liberal modern- Orthodox Ne'emanei Torah Ve'avodah (The Faithful of Torah and Labor) group.
Rabbis to convene after police summons
,18/08/2010 ; http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=185116
Prominent rabbis called over controversial "Torat Hamelech" endorsements.
A convention "in honor of the Torah and its independence" will be taking place in Jerusalem on Wednesday, following the summoning of two prominent national-religious rabbis for police questioning over their endorsement of a controversial Halacha book.
Gov't committee to appoint nine new rabbinical judges
06/11/2010 02:41
Replacement of court director to top agenda.
A government committee is convening Friday morning at the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem to select and appoint nine new rabbinical judges (dayanim) to serve in regional rabbinical courts and two for the High Rabbinical Court.
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