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  • Pluralist groups warn government over foot-dragging on Western Wall deal
    Written by on 30/03/2016
    Reform movement threatens to use ‘fist of the High Court’

  • Will Israel split from the Rabbinate? 75% of Israeli Jews want civil divorce
    Written by on 27/03/2016
    Overwhelming majority of non-haredi Jews support the move, both on the right and left of the political spectrum.

  • Budget for religious services and yeshivas doubled by current government in 2015
    Written by on 27/03/2016
    In 2014, after swingeing cuts to yeshiva budgets were made by the previous government, state funding for these institutions amounted to NIS 454 million.

  • Poll: 75% Of Israelis Want Divorce Out Of Rabbinate’s Hands
    Written by on 25/03/2016
    Three quarters of respondents in a survey about divorce in Israel said they supported taking the procedure out of the rabbinate’s hands and subjecting it to the authority of secular family courts.

  • 75% support introduction of civil divorce in Israel
    Written by on 24/03/2016
    In honor of International Agunah Day 2016, Hiddush, the Center for Women's Justice, and Mavoi Satum commissioned a survey by the Rafi Smith Polling Institute. This survey was conducted with generous support from IREP - the Israel Religious Expression Platform.

  • 75% support introduction of civil divorce in Israel
    Written by on 22/03/2016
    Head of Hiddush Rabbi Uri Regev, esq.: "The no-confidence vote against the Orthodox establishment's monopoly is tremendous." Director of the Center for Women's Justice Dr. Susan Weiss, esq.: "The solution to the agunah crisis - civil marriage and divorce." CEO of Mavoi Satum Batya Kahana-Dror, Esq.: "Alienation from Israel's religious institutions is growing."

  • 75% support introduction of civil divorce in Israel
    Written by on 22/03/2016
    Head of Hiddush Rabbi Uri Regev, esq.: "The no-confidence vote against the Orthodox establishment's monopoly is tremendous." Director of the Center for Women's Justice Dr. Susan Weiss, esq.: "The solution to the agunah crisis - civil marriage and divorce." CEO of Mavoi Satum Batya Kahana-Dror, Esq.: "Alienation from Israel's religious institutions is growing."

  • Updates: the Kotel agreement & Supreme Court mikva'ot ruling
    Written by Uri Regev on 21/03/2016
    In the last week, there have been a number of developments in the ultra-Orthodox political and rabbinical leadership's battle against the implementation of the Kotel agreement, as well as their battle against the Supreme Court's ruling to make Israel's public mikva'ot available for non-Orthodox conversion ceremonies.

  • Can Reform Jews Win Battle for the Soul of Israel?
    Written by on 17/03/2016
    The world concentrates on Israel’s conflict with Palestinians, but the reality is that there is another war going on: one for the soul of Israel. And it is one that Orthodox Jews are waging with increasing fierceness.

  • Ultra-Orthodox leaders dial up Western Wall rhetoric
    Written by on 16/03/2016
    In the weeks since Israel’s government agreed to create a new, egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, ultra-Orthodox leaders and media have dialed up their opposition, threatening to derail what initially seemed a done deal.

  • Israeli Left Must Internalize That ultra-Orthodox Parties Are Not Partners
    Written by Shahar Ilan on 16/03/2016
    ​ How is it that the left-wing and center opposition factions hardly deal with issues of state and religion? Is the opposition again deluding itself that the ultra-Orthodox parties will reward it by forming a government with it?

  • Israel pushed towards theocracy
    Written by Uri Regev on 15/03/2016
    Minister Rabbi Litzman: "Netanyahu either loves the Reform Jews of the Diaspora, or the Haredim of Israel; it's either-or. There are no two ways about it... The Supreme Court is destroying everything good related to religion & state, and... the only way to stand against it is by passing legislation."

  • Israeli Left Must Internalize That ultra-Orthodox Parties Are Not Partners
    Written by on 15/03/2016
    How is it that the left-wing and center opposition factions hardly deal with issues of state and religion? Is the opposition again deluding itself that the ultra-Orthodox parties will reward it by forming a government with it?

  • What’s really important to take away from the new Pew study
    Written by on 15/03/2016
    The Pew report on Israel’s Religiously Divided Society should be a source of alarm to both Israelis and world Jewish leaders. It was of particular interest to us at. Hiddush.

  • Will the Pew Israel Report Open our Eyes?
    Written by on 10/03/2016
    The Pew study provides us with an opportunity to focus once again on the religion-state conflict in Israel, something that Diaspora Jewish leadership usually tries to avoid discussing, not wanting to generate controversy within their respective communities, fearing divisiveness, or for fear of raising criticism against Israel at a time when the country’s image is under constant challenge.

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