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  • Community segregated buses
    Written by on 27/04/2011
    2010 showed an increase in segregated lines in communities

  • Segregated Buses
    Written by on 27/04/2011
    Number of segregated buses increasing

  • Sherman strikes again: Examine most converts
    Written by on 26/04/2011
    Rabbinic court judge Avraham Sherman, who previously ruled that Rabbi Druckman’s conversions should be nullified, said in an interview on Walla! that all modern-era conversions are invalid. Hiddush: Yet more proof that conversions need to be taken out of the rabbinate’s hands

  • Rabbi Uri Regev on NPR
    Written by on 25/04/2011
    Uri Regev quoted on kosher livestock feed

  • ‘Israeli governments are selling our children’s future’
    Written by on 14/04/2011
    In an interview with the magazine TimeOut Jerusalem, the vice president of Hiddush says the organization works to create equality in education and in shouldering the civic burden, and to expose injustices that hurt society as a whole

  • Hiddush Campaign Graphics
    Written by on 05/04/2011
    Hiddush presents visuals on burning issues

  • Chief Rabbinate turns 90: A sad celebration
    Written by on 22/03/2011
    Hiddush: The festivities are among the most embarrassing and unnecessary events held at the Knesset lately

  • Implementation begins on reform of the sweeping exemption from military service for yeshiva boys
    Written by on 21/03/2011
    Yeshiva students aged 22 and up who perform a year long civil service will be exempt from all military service. Hiddush head Rabbi Regev: ‘The government is conducting the exemption operation like thieves in the night’

  • Budget of Religious Services Ministry nearly doubled in a year
    Written by on 17/03/2011
    Budget for religious buildings grew sevenfold. Hiddush: Dismantle the ministry again

  • The reviews began, the number of kollel students shrank
    Written by on 03/03/2011
    Tightening supervision of yeshivas led within two months to a drop of 6.5% in the number of registered students. Rabbi Uri Regev: The increase in oversight reviews initiated by the finance and education ministries is sacred work

  • Hiddush Poll: Support For Gay Marriage
    Written by on 02/03/2011
    Hiddush’s Religion and State Index, conducted by the Smith Research Institute: 53% of Israel’s Jewish citizens, including 74% of secular Jews, are in favor of letting same-sex partners get married

  • Ex-ultra-Orthodox mom won’t lose child
    Written by on 02/03/2011
    Haredi father sought to deny his ex-wife custody of their children. The court denied his request

  • Religious coercion in Israel escalating
    Written by on 02/03/2011
    U.S. State Department report on religious freedom worldwide finds increase in religious coercion, discrimination, and violence in Israel. Reports: Validity of 40,000 conversions in doubt, 360,000 new immigrants cannot get married

  • Thou shalt not work
    Written by on 01/03/2011
    The Haredi press is a barrier to the integration of the ultra-Orthodox into the job market.

  • Hiddush: High cost of Haredi support
    Written by on 01/03/2011
    To secure the haredi parties’ support for the budget, the government introduced additions to items such as support for Torani education and reinstatement of the living stipend for married yeshiva students

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