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  • The Chief Rabbinate's Black List - How to respond
    Written by on 13/07/2017
    Newly elected Labor party leader Avi Gabbay has made the following public declarations on freedom of marriage, religionization, and public transportation on Shabbat. Will his Labor party finally take a stand?

  • The Chief Rabbinate's recently divulged "blacklist"
    Written by on 13/07/2017
    If the Israeli government's recent suspension of the Kotel compromise and push for a restrictive conversion bill were not enough, Israel and the Jewish world woke up this week to yet a newly leaked "blacklist" created by Israel's Chief Rabbinate.

  • The Israel I support
    Written by on 12/07/2017
    Speak out and vote with your wallets. Don’t boycott us, because that will only make the extremists on all sides that much stronger. Support us by giving to organizations that support a just and equal Israel for all her holy people, such as Hiddush

  • Divisions grip Israel as PM scraps Western Wall deal
    Written by on 04/07/2017
    Divisions have surfaced between pro-Israeli groups and the Tel Aviv regime after Premier Benjamin Netanyahu submitted to pressure by his ultra-Orthodox allies in the cabinet and suspended a deal allowing men and women to pray together in front of the so-called Western Wall in Jerusalem al-Quds’ Old City.

  • New study reveals how secular Israelis have eroded the religious status quo
    Written by on 04/07/2017
    A review of media coverage in Israel leaves the impression that, when it comes to the fragile duality of Israel’s identity as both a democratic and Jewish state, the Jewish character of the country has the upper hand. But is that really the case?

  • Israel Faces Uproar Abroad as Netanyahu Yields to Ultra-Orthodox Jews
    Written by on 03/07/2017
    The president of the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobbying group flew to Israel for an emergency meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while other Jewish leaders canceled a dinner with him.

  • Hundreds protest Western Wall backtrack in Jerusalem
    Written by on 01/07/2017
    Demonstration comes following cabinet decision to freeze deal which would have formalized pluralistic prayer area at holy site

  • American Jews plan campaign to change Israeli minds about Judaism’s diversity
    Written by on 30/06/2017
    American Jewish leaders, outraged by a recent Israeli government decision to abandon an agreement to create a pluralistic, state-funded prayer space at the Western Wall, plan to plead their case directly to the Israeli public.

  • 2/3 Israelis oppose government's Kotel decision
    Written by on 30/06/2017
    If you weren't on Mars this week, there is high likelihood that you are aware of the fierce storms engulfing Israel and world Jewry under the blazing summer sun. Every self-respecting Jewish organization issued a statement, and the language ranged from dismay to deplore, although most were lacking when it came to taking action.

  • Two-thirds Israelis oppose government Kotel and Conversion decisions
    Written by on 29/06/2017
    These Hiddush survey findings prove how far the government has swerved away from the public will and the needs of the State of Israel. Instead, the government leaders act as puppets whose strings are being pulled by the anti-Zionist, ultra-Orthodox political parties.

  • Most Israeli Jews back liberal streams on Western Wall, conversion
    Written by on 29/06/2017
    Nearly two-thirds of Israeli Jews are opposed to the government’s cancellation on Sunday of the Western Wall agreement between the state of Israel and the liberal Jewish streams.

  • Two-thirds Israelis oppose government Kotel and Conversion decisions
    Written by on 29/06/2017
    These Hiddush survey findings prove how far the government has swerved away from the public will and the needs of the State of Israel. Instead, the government leaders act as puppets whose strings are being pulled by the anti-Zionist, ultra-Orthodox political parties.

  • Politicians who degrade the Diaspora shouldn't seek support in its communities
    Written by Uri Regev on 29/06/2017
    If you weren't on Mars this week, there is high likelihood that you are aware of the fierce storms engulfing Israel and world Jewry under the blazing summer sun. Every self-respecting Jewish organization issued a statement, and the language ranged from dismay to deplore, although most were lacking when it came to taking action.

  • Clergy respond to the Kotel controversy
    Written by on 27/06/2017
    We have seen the selling out of the Jewish people for crass political power. However, it isn’t usually done by a prime minister of Israel to Jews around the world. Benjamin Netanyahu’s crass political move to renege on the compromise reached with the Reform and Conservative Movements and Women of the Wall on appropriate egalitarian prayer space at the Kotel is alarming and shameful.

  • Three battle fronts: The Kotel, Conversion, and Shabbat
    Written by Uri Regev on 26/06/2017
    Israel's religion and state conflict is viewed as a key component of shaping Israel's path. Recent days have provided us with a good cross section of the scope, depth, motivations, impact, and potential consequences of this ongoing saga.

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