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  • Shas CEO cannot simultaneously be CEO of state-funded educational network
    Written by on 11/06/2020
    Responding to Hiddush’s demand – Israel’s Attorney General instructs Shas that the party’s CEO, Haim Biton, cannot simultaneously direct the State-funded vast educational network it founded

  • The Imminent Political/Legal Explosion
    Written by on 05/06/2020
    The ultra-Orthodox parties have pushed hard on the Prime Minister in their coalition negotiations. The amendment to the Draft Law is the only issue of religion and state relations that is spelled out in detail, not only in the agreements of the ultra-Orthodox parties with the Likud, but also in the Likud's agreement with Blue & White.

  • Let Marriage Freedom Ring!
    Written by on 05/06/2020
    Today, Hiddush began a new campaign to allow marriage freedom in Israel. This is a collaboration between Hiddush and the School of the Arts in Musrara, Jerusalem.

  • On the legal front
    Written by Uri Regev on 04/06/2020
    Hiddush's activism in the legal arena has continued in the face of the Covid-19 crisis, as Israel's new government has been settling in. There will be much to do in the face of the ultra-Orthodox party's stranglehold over Israel's religion-and-state arena!

  • The Imminent Political/Legal Explosion
    Written by on 04/06/2020
    Together with many in the United States and Israel, we are watching with dread and pain the increasing devaluation of human life. The killing of George Floyd and Iyad El Halek has hit us all. We also cannot turn a blind eye to the connection they bear to the plague of racism, which intensifies the moral and social wounds.

  • A coalition that will escalate Jewish disunity
    Written by on 21/05/2020
    The 35th government has begun its term. Up until the last minute, there was no certainty of that. Israel could very well have been dragged into a fourth round of elections. In fact, disputes over cooperation between the Likud and the remnants of ‘Blue & White’ remain.

  • Civil Burial in Israel – If You Will It, It Is No Dream
    Written by on 21/05/2020
    In a petition heard in the Supreme Court last week, Hiddush - For Religious Freedom and Equality demanded that the Ministry of Religious Services and the Israel Lands Authority allow an immediately available option for civil burial to the public, in agricultural localities (kibbutzim and moshavim), at least temporarily, until a full and permanent solution is provided.

  • A coalition that will escalate Jewish disunity
    Written by Uri Regev on 18/05/2020
    Netanyahu, Gantz and their partners know that this ongoing surrender to the ultra-Orthodox parties is in complete betrayal of the Israeli public’s will, including that of their own voters.

  • The State of Israel is but a Co-op Board
    Written by on 07/05/2020
    Reading the Ultra-Orthodox print and online media one would not have realized that Israel has just marked its most important national holiday, Yom Ha’Atzmaut (Day of Independence) and its only two official memorial days: Yom Hashoah and Yom Hazikaron.

  • Religion and state under Netanyahu's new government
    Written by Uri Regev on 07/05/2020
    This week, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected all of the petitions against Benjamin Netanyahu's continued tenure as prime minister due to the pending criminal charges against him, as well as those against the coalition agreement between the Likud and Blue & White.

  • Interview with CEO of UJA Federation New York
    Written by on 07/05/2020
    An interview with Eric Goldstein, CEO of UJA Federation New York [ESG], regarding the complex relationship between American Jewry / the NY Jewish Federation and Israel, the attitude toward Haredim, pluralism, the non-Orthodox streams, religion and state, marriage and ‘Who is a Jew’. Kikar Ha’Shabat representative, Rabbi Benjamin Goldschmidt, conducted the interview [RBG].

  • The famous meeting between Ben Gurion and the Hazon Ish
    Written by on 07/05/2020
    An interview conducted by Yedioth Ahronoth journalist Boaz Evron with the fifth President of the State of Israel, Mr. Yitzhak Navon, regarding the meeting of Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion with Rabbi Avraham Isaiah Karlitz [known as the ‘Hazon Ish’].

  • "The State of Israel is but a Co-op Board" ???
    Written by on 07/05/2020
    This week, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected all of the petitions against Benjamin Netanyahu's continued tenure as prime minister due to the pending criminal charges against him, as well as those against the coalition agreement between the Likud and Blue & White.

  • Emergency government and national unity?
    Written by on 24/04/2020
    On the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day, April 20, a coalition agreement “for the establishment of an emergency and national unity government” was signed between the Likud and Blue & White. We at Hiddush focus on matters of religion and state and the implications of the agreement on the challenges of freedom of religion and equality of civic burden.

  • Who doesn't recognize Holocaust Memorial Day?
    Written by Uri Regev on 24/04/2020
    It is difficult not to think about Israel’s religion and state conflict in the context of MK Mansour Abbas’s words on Holocaust Memorial Day. Unlike MK Abbas's impressive remarks, much of the ultra-Orthodox media did not address Holocaust Day, for its leaders refuse to recognize the date set by the Knesset to mark Israel’s memorial days.

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