Hiddush

Tools

Users: Login

Text size: A | A | A

Search:

Search Tips

Uri Regev

Latest stories by Uri Regev

Jerusalem Post Op-ed: It's time to retire the Chief Rabbinate

Uri Regev 23/07/2013 13:45

On July 24, a voting body made up of 150 rabbis, politicians and community leaders will decide who will be the next Sephardi and Ashkenazi chief rabbis of Israel. What is this coercive institution doing to Israeli Judaism?

Op-ed in the Washington Jewish Week: Not an Isolated Tragedy

Uri Regev 20/05/2013 21:47

Rabbi Uri Regev writes about the troubles that the American Jewish community are already facing in Israel as the government severly restricts Israelis and Jews rights to marry in the Jewish state.

Huffington Post Op-ed: Why Is It so Difficult for Jews to Marry in Israel?

Uri Regev 12/05/2013 11:23

Rabbi Uri Regev writes in the Huffington Post about the launching of the Freedom of Marriage World Map and Israel's severe restrictions on marriage.

A less spoken about angle: The threat Israel presents to Jewish peoplehood

Uri Regev 18/04/2013 17:59

In a publication of the Center for Jewish Peoplehood, Rabbi Uri Regev focuses on the damage to the sense of Peoplehood brought about by the lack of religious pluralism in Israel.

Where does Yesh Atid stand on freedom of marriage?

Uri Regev 06/03/2013 15:02

Yair Lapid and his party, Yesh Atid, have expressed support for Jewish pluralism in Israel in an unprecedented manner. However, they also endorsed Rabbi David Stav, a Religious-Zionist Rabbi from the Tzohar Rabbinic Organization, as the candidate for Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi. Yesh Atid and Rabbi Stav hold seemingly divergent views on pluralism and freedom of marriage in Israel. So how does this all add up?

Israel's Other Impending Election

Uri Regev 05/02/2013 14:27

David Stav Offers Illusion of Pluralism in Chief Rabbi Fight

Does Israel Need A Chief Rabbi?

Uri Regev 25/09/2012 14:37

The overwhelming majority of Israelis want to see its founding promises of "freedom of religion and conscience" and "equality regardless of religion" fully realized. The Chief Rabbinate of Israel, through is preventing that from happening.

US Jews must fight Israel’s policy on religious freedom

Uri Regev 01/08/2012 15:24

Recent actions of Israel’s Chief Rabbinate threaten to divide the Jewish people and risk an anti-religious backlash against Judaism itself within the Jewish state. Of particular concern is the monopoly of the Chief Rabbinate over issues of personal status – particularly marriage, divorce, burial, and conversion to Judaism.

What was Eli Yishai thinking?

Uri Regev 23/01/2012 13:16

Eli Yishai's recent comparison of the Six Day War and the Second Lebanon War were not only offensive, they were just plain incorrect.

Human Rights Day in Israel

Uri Regev 09/12/2011 16:25

As we reflect on Human Rights Day, we are reminded of the dire need of Israel to acknowledge its failure in ensuring those promised in both the International Declaration of Human Rights and the Declaration of Independence of Israel itself.