The International Rabbinic Fellowship, an Orthodox Rabbinic Organization with over 170 members is appalled and alarmed by the media reports stating that the Chief Rabbinate of the State of Israel is threatening to refuse renewal of Rabbi Shlomo Riskin’s appointment as Chief Rabbi of Efrat, which has been standard practice.

The International Rabbinic Fellowship mourns the passing of Belda Lindenbaum, zt"l, a leading voice for perfecting our world in general and perfecting our Modern-Orthodox Torah community and its norms and institutions, in particular.

The International Rabbinic Fellowship, together with the whole house of Israel, expresses its deep pain and sadness on the passing of Moreinu Verabeinu, Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein zt"l. R. Lichtenstein, one of the gedolei hador, Torah leaders of the generation, bestrode our world like a colossus for over half a century of teaching, leadership, and moral guidance.

The International Rabbinic Fellowship, together with all people of good will, condemn the growing wave of terrorism directed at Israeli citizens in the last few weeks that have included shootings, hit and run murders and other acts of violence, culminating in today's stabbing of a 26 year old woman in Alon Shvut, Gush Etzion.

The International Rabbinic Fellowship expresses its solidarity with our brothers and sisters, the residents of the southern part of Israel, who have been subjected in the last few days to a torrent of missile attacks launched by Hamas from the Gaza Strip.

The International Rabbinic Fellowship expresses its shock and revulsion at the brutal murder of Muhammad Hussein Abu Khdeir, an innocent 16 year old Palestinian teen, in what increasingly appears to be an attack undertaken by a number of extremist Jews in reprisal for the brutal murders of Eyal Yifrach, Naftali Frankel, and Gilad Shaar by Hamas extremists.