Trouwens de Joodse staat erkent bijzondere machten aan die rabbijnse gerechtshoven. Er is een poging om het orthodoxisme uit te breiden.
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) sponsored Orthodox Jewish conversion courses for Jewish soldiers who received non-Orthodox (and therefore unrecognized) conversions and for soldiers not recognized as Jewish by the Orthodox rabbinical authorities.
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the only in-country Jewish marriages the government recognizes are those performed by the Orthodox chief rabbinate
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A new law passed on March 13, 2010, allows for the civil registration of couples only if both partners are recognized as being "of no religion."
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Secular and non-Orthodox Jews who married in civil ceremonies or in non-Orthodox ceremonies performed abroad were able to divorce only via the rabbinical courts that operated according to halacha, or through courts abroad.
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Secular courts have primacy over questions of inheritance, but parties, by mutual agreement, may also file such cases in religious courts. The rabbinical courts, when exercising these powers in civil matters, apply religious law, which varies from civil law, for instance, in matters relating to the property rights of widows and daughters. Family status matters are normally the purview of religious courts, but Jewish, Druze, and Christian families may ask for some cases, such as alimony and child custody in divorces, to be adjudicated in civil courts.
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The Ministry of Religious Affairs has jurisdiction over the country's 133 Jewish religious councils, which oversee the provision of religious services for Jewish communities.
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Dus laten we niet doen dat het hier om een privaat clubje gaat. Die Rabijnse gerechtshoven zijn intrinsiek verweven met de staat, en hun macht wordt systematisch uitgebreid zodat het verschil tussen civiele en Rabijnse gerechthoven steeds kleiner wordt. Over oprukkend fundamentalisme gesproken.
Het State Department van de VS besluit:
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Government allocations of state resources favored Orthodox (including Modern and National Religious streams of Orthodoxy) and ultra-Orthodox (sometimes referred to as "Haredi") Jewish religious groups and institutions, discriminating against non-Jews and non-Orthodox streams of Judaism.
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