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  • Thanks to Hiddush - a serious loophole closed
    Written by on 15/02/2018
    The Just this week, on Tuesday, following Hiddush's petition, the Knesset approved regulations that would, for the first time, put a halt to the mass phenomenon of false claims of religiosity aimed at receiving exemptions from military service.

  • Thanks to Hiddush - a serious loophole closed
    Written by on 13/02/2018
    Just this week, on Tuesday, following Hiddush's petition, the Knesset approved regulations that would, for the first time, put a halt to the mass phenomenon of false claims of religiosity aimed at receiving exemptions from military service. Thousands of young women are exempted from IDF service every year on the basis of false affidavits claiming that their religious lifestyles prevent them from serving in the army, even though they lead secular lives.

  • New polling reaffirms Hiddush finding.
    Written by on 08/02/2018
    The January 2018 issue of the monthly Peace Index, published jointly by Tel Aviv University and the Israel Democracy Institute, touches upon key confrontation points along the spectrum of religion-state issues on the public's and political class's minds at this time.

  • Haredi city council lays down law on modesty, gender separation
    Written by on 06/02/2018
    An ultra-Orthodox municipality sent out a modesty rule book that prohibits men and women from traveling together or sitting near one another at work, rules out informal greetings such as “hello” and “goodbye,” and bans joking together or discussing issues not directly related to work.

  • Chief Rabbi Yosef rails against civil courts system
    Written by on 05/02/2018
    Chief Rabbi Yosef says civilian courts are 'worse than gentiles' instances,' litigating before them is akin to 'kicking the Torah' and former chief justice Aharon Barak, who criticized a bill seeking to endow rabbinical courts with powers of arbitration in financial disputes, was a mere 'broken shard' to be cast away.

  • Rabbis are undermining the foundations of the State
    Written by on 01/02/2018
    Yesterday, Defense Minister Liberman reacted to recent public pronouncements of leading Israeli rabbis from the "Zionist ultra-Orthodox" camp that were aimed against women's military service.

  • A constitutional bill to define Torah study as a form of national service
    Written by Uri Regev on 01/02/2018
    Today's news sheds light on a new effort by the Haredi parties to permanently avoid requiring their adherents to equally shoulder the burden of national security.

  • Rabbis are undermining the foundations of the State
    Written by on 01/02/2018
    Defense Minister Liberman reacted to recent public pronouncements of leading Israeli rabbis from the "Zionist ultra-Orthodox" camp that were aimed against women's military service.

  • Israeli couples are voting with their feet!
    Written by Uri Regev on 30/01/2018
    The Ministry of Religious Services has now reported a 4% drop in the number of couples marrying via the Rabbinate from 2016 to 2017. (The decline is really greater, because they ignore the increase in the Jewish population). In Tel Aviv the decline is greater than 15%!!

  • The Intrusive Ways Israel Maintains the Purity of the Jewish Priestly Dynasty
    Written by on 27/01/2018
    Israel intervenes in people's choice of last name and even in gender selection of embryos in order to keep the Jewish priestly class pure for 'when the Messiah comes'

  • 44 Chareidi Mosdos Fined Millions Of Shekels For Failing To Teach English And Math
    Written by on 23/01/2018
    Israel’s Ministry of Education has fined 44 chareidi educational institutions affiliated with Shas and Agudas Yisrael for failing to adhere to laws compelling teaching core subject matter including English and math.

  • Are American Jews obsessed with the Kotel?
    Written by on 18/01/2018
    At this time, we want to share with you an important exposition of the debate over the place of the Kotel controversy in the American Jewish public discourse and American Jewry's efforts at influencing Israeli policies.

  • Supermarket law buys Netanyahu's coalition more time
    Written by on 09/01/2018
    In September 2016, the fourth Netanyahu government was facing its first coalition crisis, with the ultra-Orthodox fuming over railroad maintenance work conducted on the Sabbath.

  • Shabbat wars flare up at the Knesset
    Written by on 04/01/2018
    The approaching vote over the “Market’s Bill”, labeled by the public as a “Shabbat Bill” is representative of the mounting public and political debate over the clash of religion and state.

  • The Knesset's pending vote on the Convenience Store Bill
    Written by on 02/01/2018
    Hiddush sent all members of the Knesset the following report in advance of the Knesset vote on operating convenience stores on Shabbat in Israel. What does the public think of the Government's acquiescence to the ultra-Orthodox parties' demands to use legislative and policy channels in order to pass a law against operating local businesses on Shabbat?

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