The Sorry Story of the State Rabbinate

When Rav Kook was appointed as Zionist chief rabbi, Rabbi Yosef Chaim Zonenfeld commented prophetically, “Their first chief rabbi is a Kohein. The second will be a Levi, the third will be a Yisroel, and the fourth will be a mamzer.” Indeed, the second chief rabbi was Rabbi Isaac Halevi Herzog, the third was Rabbi Isser Yehuda Unterman, and the fourth was Rabbi Shlomo Goren, who permitted mamzerim.

Excerpted from True Torah Jews, here.

And today…