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  • Israel’s mixed messages on basic education
    Written by on 27/07/2016
    In commenting on the issue, Science, Technology and Space Minister Ofir Akunis stated: “I am in favor of all Israeli children learning English, math and science.

  • Knesset expedites reversal of core curricular studies law
    Written by on 26/07/2016
    The Knesset reverses a law that would have reduced funding for ultra-Orthodox schools that teach only minimal core subjects, such as math, English, and science.

  • Israel has a LGBT problem
    Written by on 26/07/2016
    25,000 marched in the Jerusalem pride parade, the largest in the city’s history. In his video address to the parade, Netanyahu declared that the LGBT community is an inseparable part of today’s society.

  • Knesset Passes Controversial Law Banning non-Orthodox Converts From Using Mikvehs
    Written by on 25/07/2016
    Law effectively circumvents High Court decision that banning Reform, Conservative converts from state-run mikvehs is discriminatory and therefore illegal.

  • Bill to cancel non-religious studies in haredi schools moves forward
    Written by on 24/07/2016
    Some 75,000 haredi pupils study in independent “recognized but unofficial” schools.

  • Supreme Court rules on illegal writs of refusal from rabbinical court
    Written by on 19/07/2016
    The Supreme Court required the Attorney General's office to decide soon whether or not to file charges against the judges of the private, ultra-Orthodox rabbinical court who issued an excommunication notice to a Haredi resident Elad who are also suspected of blackmail, threatening private citizens, and obstruction of justice.

  • Anti-democratic rabbinic appointments in the Jewish State
    Written by on 18/07/2016
    Last week we were sensitized once again to the pitfalls of State empowered and appointed rabbinic authorities, with the appointments of a new Military Chief Rabbi and rabbinic judges to Israel's Rabbinic Court of Appeal.

  • What’s Your Beef?
    Written by on 18/07/2016
    A new lawsuit challenges Israeli rules for kosher meat, calling them a corrupt windfall for the Orthodox rabbinate

  • An open letter to Natan Sharansky
    Written by on 18/07/2016
    As praiseworthy as Mr. Sharansky's solidarity with Rabbi Lookstein was at the demonstration and in the media, it is high time for the Jewish Agency's leader to consider that a more inclusive step is necessary.

  • The silly season has begun
    Written by on 17/07/2016
    The most serious conflict point, according to the report, is between Jews and Arabs, cited by 53% of the respondents, followed by that between Left and Right (24%) and only then religious and secular.

  • An end to core curriculum studies for Haredi pupils
    Written by on 17/07/2016
    Yesh Atid released a statement on Sunday accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of placing political interests above the good of Israeli children.

  • An open letter to Natan Sharansky
    Written by on 17/07/2016
    In rightly stressing the need for Israel to welcome the young generation of Diaspora Jewry, Mr. Sharansky must know that the majority of that youth will not be accepted as Jewish by Israel’s rabbinate, and would be excluded and humiliated.

  • An open letter to Natan Sharansky
    Written by on 16/07/2016
    You praised the rabbinate for “connecting the Jewish state with Judaism.” Sadly, you are wrong, for the monopolistic and coercive rabbinate is alienating Israeli Jews from Judaism.

  • An open letter to Natan Sharansky
    Written by Uri Regev on 16/07/2016
    Mr. Sharansky, you praised the rabbinate for “connecting the Jewish state with Judaism.” Sadly, you are wrong, for the monopolistic and coercive rabbinate is alienating Israeli Jews from Judaism.

  • Lookstein, Sharansky call for rabbinic reform, not revolution
    Written by on 14/07/2016
    Three months after Israel’s chief rabbinate rejected his authority to perform conversions, one of America’s most prominent modern Orthodox rabbis joined with Natan Sharansky to advance a message.

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