The International Rabbinic Fellowship is heartened by the decision of the organizers of the annual commemoration ceremony in memory of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, zt”l to reach out, this year, to the leadership of the mainstream Religious-Zionist community and ask them to participate and speak at the official program of the evening.

The International Rabbinic Fellowship, applauds the new campaign of the Tzohar rabbinical organization in Israel to restore the institution and ethos of the national Chief Rabbinate to its inclusive, Zionist roots.

The International Rabbinic Fellowship together with the house of Israel mourns the passing of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, the leading Lithuanaian Haredi halakhic decisor, at the age of 102 in Jerusalem.

The IRF Board of Directors voted to release the following statement on the situation of undocumented migrants in Israel:

The membership of the International Rabbinic Fellowship, (IRF), at its annual conference on Tuesday May 22, voted overwhelmingly in favor of the following resolution:

The International Rabbinic Fellowship respects and strongly adheres to the notion that local rabbis should be empowered to do their own giyyur without the need to go through a centralized body. It is understood that each rabbi will make his decisions in full accordance with the demands of halakha and in due consideration of what is best for the convert and for the Jewish people.