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August 16, 2021

Ending the Israeli Rabbinate’s Monopoly on Kosher Certification Will Strengthen Religious Observance

Transparency and competition will help reduce corruption and other ills.

Currently, the Jewish state gives the chief rabbinate the exclusive right to certify restaurants and packaged foods as kosher. But a bill now before the Knesset would reform this system, allowing some degree of competition. David Stav, a prominent Israeli Orthodox rabbi, makes the case for such changes:

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August 16, 2021

  1. In Afghanistan, America Exchanges Victory for Defeat

    The consequences to the U.S. could be deadly.

  2. Ending the Israeli Rabbinate’s Monopoly on Kosher Certification Will Strengthen Religious Observance

    Transparency and competition will help reduce corruption and other ills.

  3. The 150-Year Back Story to the Sheikh Jarrah Dispute

    The problem may not be what the Israeli government is doing, but what it isn’t.

  4. The False Prophet and the True

    Jeremiah’s rivalry with a charlatan highlights the moral center of prophecy.

  5. The Jewish Woman Who Bicycled Around the World

    Annie Londonderry, a/k/a Annie Cohen Kopchovsky.