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  • Hiddush featured by The Times of Israel
    Written by on 19/08/2015
    Hiddush's promising Supreme Court case was featured by the Times of Israel in July. Read about this, as well as Hiddush's analysis of how Israelis from the Former Soviet Union think about matters of religion and state.

  • Analysis of Israelis from the Former Soviet Union
    Written by David Bogomolny on 19/08/2015
    The graphs below show the opinions held by FSU olim in Israel, as compared to the general, Jewish Israeli public. It should go without saying that this demographic is the most adversely affected by the Orthodox Rabbinate's monopolistic powers, and there is no way one could envisage the successful absorption of the FSU immigrant population into Israel society if these issues are not resolved - first and foremost, the right to marry freely!

  • Private Conversions Causing Stir
    Written by on 18/08/2015
    New effort seen as rebuke to Chief Rabbinate.

  • Conversion – Time to go beyond the rhetoric
    Written by on 13/08/2015
    The leader of the Tzohar rabbinical organization, Rabbi David Stav, and his colleagues threw a shock grenade into the volatile religion/state arena this week.

  • Conversion – Time to go beyond the rhetoric
    Written by Uri Regev on 13/08/2015
    The leader of the Tzohar rabbinical organization, Rabbi David Stav, and his colleagues threw a shock grenade into the volatile religion/state arena this week.

  • Income support for yeshiva students to be reintroduced
    Written by on 09/08/2015
    The government is planning to restore income support payments for married, full-time yeshiva students as part of the budget that was approved by the government for passage to the Knesset last week.

  • Opposition leader Herzog urges clampdown on Jewish extremism
    Written by on 07/08/2015
    Herzog calls for “actions not words” in response to the rabbi’s comments about burning churches in Israel.

  • Stabbing gays in Jerusalem: rabbis are to blame
    Written by on 02/08/2015
    The question is whether his violence, or the silence that preceded the march, are the true reflections of the views held by religious and ultra-Orthodox Israelis. The answer is complex.

  • Hiddush Battles religious coercion at High Court
    Written by on 27/07/2015
    Last week, at a Supreme Court hearing for a petition submitted by Hiddush representing ourselves and an ultra-Orthodox citizen of the ultra-Orthodox city of Elad, the Justices set the stage for a critically important confrontation over the clash of religion and state in Israel.

  • Supreme Court hears Hiddush petition against coercive rabbinical court
    Written by on 26/07/2015
    Justice Mazuz: “The ‘Writs of Refusal’ are intended to deny a person his rights as a man and a citizen by blocking his/her way to State institutions (i.e. - the courts) that can render him remedy in realizing his rights.”

  • Protests greet ministers’ support of bill giving Haredim priority in civil service
    Written by on 23/07/2015
    Watchdog says bill that grants Haredim andidates precedence over ex-soldiers rewards draft-dodgers.

  • The phenomenon of sex segregated bus lines is growing!
    Written by on 16/07/2015
    An ultra-Orthodox myth is that ultra-Orthodox women really want to sit in the back of the bus, so we shouldn’t interfere with the growing phenomenon of gender-segregated bus lines. However, ultra-Orthodox blogger Chani Weiser of B’nai Brak has recently come out publicly, challenging her community’s self-righteous claims. She does not want to sit at the back of the bus!

  • Extremist haredi opponents of IDF service print contact details of ultra-Orthodox IDF officers
    Written by on 15/07/2015
    Booklet also contains names, photos and contact details of senior figures in the haredi community who promote enlistment.

  • U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Israel and religious hypocrisy
    Written by on 08/07/2015
    Even as we celebrate with our brothers and sisters in North America, we are disheartened that only some of the Jewish organizations at the forefront of this battle for equality and defense of marriage have been active or even supportive when it comes to advocating for marriage freedom in Israel.

  • U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Israel and religious hypocrisy
    Written by Uri Regev on 08/07/2015
    Even as we celebrate with our brothers and sisters in North America, we are disheartened that only some of the Jewish organizations at the forefront of this battle for equality and defense of marriage have been active or even supportive when it comes to advocating for marriage freedom in Israel.

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