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  • 73% support State recognition of same-sex couplehood
    Written by on 01/06/2021
    3 out of 4 Israelis support same-sex couples receiving all the rights other couples get; 73% of the adult Jewish public in Israel support recognition of same-sex marriage (54%) or civil unions for same-sex couples (19%).

  • Hiddush in the legal trenches
    Written by Uri Regev on 20/05/2021
    Last week, Hiddush filed a petition in the Supreme Court on behalf of itself; the Israel Women’s Network; NA’AMAT; the Rackman Center; and Women Lawyers for Social Justice to ensure adequate gender representation for women on Religious Councils and senior oversight appointments.

  • Only 40% for keeping conversion w/ Chief Rabbinate
    Written by on 20/05/2021
    Only 40% support maintaining the conversion process in Israel under the exclusive authority of the Chief Rabbinate! The majority of the public, 60%[!] wants to abolish the Chief Rabbinate's monopoly over the State of Israel's official recognition of conversions.

  • Only 40% support leaving conversion under Chief Rabbinate
    Written by on 18/05/2021
    In honor of the Jewish festival of Shavuot, Hiddush - for Freedom of Religion and Equality commissioned a public opinion survey to examine the attitudes of Israel’s adult Jewish public on the matter of conversion.

  • MK Rabbi Gilad Kariv's maiden Knesset speech
    Written by on 06/05/2021
    This week, a new chapter opens in Israel's political ‘Unfinished Symphony’, but in Israel it is a particularly cacophonous work, which nobody knows how it will end…

  • What are haredi parties doing in a national-Zionist coalition?
    Written by Uri Regev on 29/04/2021
    A government priding itself as being national, democratic, Zionist, relies on haredi cynical anti-Zionist parties aiming to extract state funds, enforce religious coercion and erode democracy.

  • Israel Independence Day according to Haredi media
    Written by on 22/04/2021
    Political tension in Israel is increasing. It is now clear that even after the fourth round of elections no decisive results were reached.

  • Beware of fighting words!
    Written by on 22/04/2021
    A group of Christian leading clergy recently published a proclamation, calling upon the leaders of the Democratic Party to “be careful about appointing Jewish politicians to the Biden Administration, for they have nationalistic Jewish loyalty and affinity for the State of Israel.”

  • Israel Independence Day according to Haredi media
    Written by Uri Regev on 21/04/2021
    Two front page pictures, that of the front page of Yaded Ne’eman and of Yediot Aharonot, on Israel’s Memorial Day for the Fallen Soldiers, which is also the eve of Yom Ha’atzmaut, tell the whole story. A government that prides itself as being Zionistic, relies on ultra-Orthodox politicians that are cynical and anti-Zionistic, aiming to extort State funds, enforce religious coercion and undermine Zionism.

  • So, who owns Judaism?
    Written by on 08/04/2021
    After much deliberation, President Rivlin, after clearly going through an inner struggle, announced his decision to entrust the mandate to attempt to form the new Israeli government to Prime Minister Netanyahu.

  • So, who owns Judaism?
    Written by Uri Regev on 08/04/2021
    MK Israel Eichler [United Torah Judaism] had this to say yesterday about the new Labor MK, Rabbi Gilad Kariv when the new MKs were sworn in and the new Knesset launched its anticipated stormy, possibly short lived, term. Kariv was, until recently, the Executive Director of the Israeli Reform Movement, and Eichler’s vitriol is not directed against him personally, but rather against all Judaism’s liberal streams:

  • The elections and the Jewish-Arab and secular-Haredi tensions
    Written by on 08/04/2021
    A survey conducted by the Israel Democracy Institute several days after the election revealed the depth of dissatisfaction of the majority of the Israeli public with the election results. Two-thirds of the public is dissatisfied with the results [including the majority of Jewish voters for the right, left and center parties] and 80% believe that Israel is facing its fifth round of elections in the coming year.

  • The Fourth Elections are upon us
    Written by Uri Regev on 19/03/2021
    Next Tuesday, Israel will go to the polls for the 4th time in two years. All the many polls being conducted ahead of the elections indicate uncertainty as to their outcome.

  • Fourth round of Israeli elections upon us
    Written by on 18/03/2021


  • The Court conversion ruling and the elections
    Written by on 18/03/2021
    Non-Orthodox conversion and the Supreme Court are playing a key role in these elections, especially in the election propaganda of the ultra-Orthodox parties.

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