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This week Shas leader and Interior Minister Rabbi Aryeh Deri turned to Israel's Attorney General, demanding that the mandatory guidelines regarding the exclusion of women in the public sphere be suspended and reconsidered.
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?
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.
The amazing results of our recent public opinion survey on same-sex marriage tell of an increasingly liberal Jewish Israeli public, even as the political scene becomes nastier, less tolerant, and less inclusive. We are proud that Hiddush’s data raises tremendous interest around the world, as you can see by the broad media coverage that our survey received.
The recent Hiddush survey for Yom Ha'Atzmaut indicates that most of the public aspires to fully realize the Declaration of Independence's promise of freedom of religion and equality for all, rejects the politicization of these fundamental issues, and trusts the Supreme Court.
Israel's High Court of Justice ruled in favor of Tel Aviv’s battle to expand facilities open to the secular public on Shabbat, saying that the municipality can permit mini-markets to operate on the Jewish day of rest.
Israel's Supreme Court has handed down two decisions that demonstrate the critical importance of an independent civil judiciary, but the Government Coalition continues to capitulate to the ultra-Orthodox political parties.
The Prime Minister must either stop the incitement against non-Orthodox Judaism from within his own government or sever his political alliance with those who wage war against world Jewry and block Netanyhu's own public commitment to ensure that all Jews feel at home in Israel.
90% of the adult Jewish public is dissatisfied with the Israeli Rabbinical Courts' way of dealing with Agunot and women whose husbands refuse to grant them divorces.
Last week at a national rabbinic conference, Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef declared that rabbis should warn the Israeli public that in the event of legal disputes, they should take their cases to the rabbinical courts, rather than to Israel's civil courts.
Last week, we saw one of the most shocking and deplorable examples of why this authority should urgently be withdrawn.
It is anticipated that on Sunday the cabinet will be presented with ultra-Orthodox demands to entrust the decision regarding the municipal ordinance to Shas's leader Interior Minister Rabbi Arye Deri.
This week, our newsletter focuses on a number of petitions before the Supreme Court, which touch upon different aspects of the unholy alliance of religion and state in Israel.
In the past year, Hiddush focused on the battle for marriage freedom in Israel as our leading cause, conducting a comprehensive series of surveys and studies that highlighted a clear trend: the Israeli Jewish public supports marriage freedom.
This present analysis presents you with the gap between the Coalition parties (who claim to represent the "will of the people") and their very own voters.