The International Rabbinic Fellowship

Dear Friends,

Welcome to the website of the International Rabbinic Fellowship. We are pleased that you have chosen to visit our website. Please feel free to look around and learn more about the IRF.

The IRF is a group of Orthodox Rabbis who come together for serious study of Torah and Halacha, for open and respectful discussion, and to advocate policies and implement actions on behalf of world Jewry and humankind.

One of our major concerns is the professional and spiritual wellbeing of our members. As such we are dedicated to providing advice, programming ideas and general support to IRF members. We do with via conferences, sharing resources, a members only listserve and a growing number shiurim pen to IRF members.
We are committed to:

1. The creation of "safe space" where every participant feels comfortable voicing his opinion.
2. Bringing together Orthodox rabbis from the Golah and from Israel to put a wide range of opinions on the table in terms of Halakha, Hashkafa and public policy.
3. The right, responsibility and autonomy of individual rabbis to decide matters of halakha for their communities.
4. Religious Zionism, recognizing the centrality of the Land of Israel and the State of Israel to world Jewry.
5. Affirming the shared divine image (tzelem Elokim) of all people, our responsibility to improve the world and our capacity to be enriched by it.

Please feel free to contact any of the IRF leadership if you have any questions of if the IRF can be of assistance to you.