The Orthodox Case for Freedom of Religion in Israel with Rabbi Aaron Leibowitz

We’d love to have you join us for our upcoming classes! Please sign up here → https://linktr.ee/utzedek —Rabbi Aaron Leibowitz is a Jerusalem-based rabbi, activist, and institutional change-maker whose work has reshaped the landscape of religious life in Israel. He currently serves as CEO of Chuppot, the pioneering Orthodox wedding organization he founded in 2018 to provide halachically rigorous marriages independent of the Chief Rabbinate - an initiative that has now served over 2,000 couples. He is also a member of the leadership team of Rabanut Yisraelit, the groundbreaking pluralistic rabbinic training and network program at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, where he teaches weekly.Rabbi Leibowitz has spent his career building alternatives to institutional monopolies in Israeli religious life. In 2012, he founded Hashgacha Pratit, Israel's first independent kashrut organization and the first to employ women as supervisors - a project that broke the Chief Rabbinate's exclusive hold on kosher supervision and was later transferred to Tzohar. In 2018, he launched Chuppot on the same premise: that Israeli couples deserve a dignified, high-quality religious marriage outside the Rabbinate's jurisdiction.Ordained by Rabbi Shlomo Riskin and Rabbi Chaim Brovender in 1996, he serves as the Rabbi of the Va'ani Tefillah community in Nachlaot, Jerusalem. From 2015 to 2018, he served on the Jerusalem City Council, representing the pluralistic Yerushalmim party and holding the education portfolio. –STAY CONNECTED WITH URI L’TZEDEK:🔗 All Socials: https://linktr.ee/utzedek🖥️ Website: https://utzedek.org📰 Newsletter: https://utzedek.org/subscribe🎁 Donate: https://utzedek.org/donate