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  • Just when you thought it couldn’t get any lower…
    Written by Uri Regev on 06/01/2022
    Since Hiddush last newsletter, Israel was exposed to two new records in rudeness and hatefulness of expressions by Knesset members’, one from the Chairman of the Agudat Israel faction, Former Minister MK Rabbi Yaakov Litzman, and his colleague MK Rabbi Moshe Abutbul of Shas. The other was on the part of former Minister MK David Amsalem [Likud]. Litzman's statement from the Knesset podium was an expression of the growing frustration of the ultra-Orthodox leadership with the Government's policies and the presence and influence of MK Rabbi Gilad Kariv, Chairman of the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee.

  • Initiatives of the new government: “antisemitism”
    Written by Uri Regev on 27/07/2021
    The main issue on the agenda this week was a series of reforms of the kashrut system. The Minister of Religious Services, Matan Kahana, is trying to promote them, intending to increase competition in the provision of kosher supervision services, while preserving the Orthodox monopoly over kashrut certification.

  • Impact of ‘religious freedom’ upon the Israeli elections
    Written by Uri Regev on 11/10/2019
    Avigdor Lieberman has emerged as the great victor of the elections (despite the small size of his party – 8 seats), for his party has turned out to be the determining factor in the balance of the coalition negotiation efforts.

  • Disturbing news on the ultra-Orthodox front
    Written by on 09/10/2018
    Why did the leader of the Hasidic faction of the United Torah Judaism party (Deputy Minister of Health Rabbi Litzman) make two visits to the prison where one Elazar Vigdorovich is serving a four year prison term for crimes involving the Gur Chasidic dynasty?

  • What do draft-dodging and the national budget have in common?
    Written by Uri Regev on 18/03/2018
    The "draft-dodging" bill is being demanded by the ultra-Orthodox political parties, lest they topple the government and force new elections.

  • 71% of Jewish Israelis favor allowing railway maintenance work on Shabbat
    Written by on 26/11/2017
    The public believes in the principle of 'live and let live,' and it wants to support freedom of religion and freedom from religion in Israel.

  • 71% of Jewish Israelis favor allowing railway maintenance work on Shabbat
    Written by on 26/11/2017
    The public believes in the principle of 'live and let live,' and it wants to support freedom of religion and freedom from religion in Israel.

  • The ‘Muezzin Bill’ – a masquerade
    Written by Uri Regev on 22/11/2016
    It's the Litzmans and Deris of the religious Jewish leadership that have never hesitated to deny these very freedoms to fellow Jews and non-Jews whenever they have had the political ability to do so.

  • Haredi MK Yaakov Litzman bails draft evading yeshiva student out of jail
    Written by on 17/08/2014
    "Get out of jail free" is no longer a tactic limited to the Monopoly board, but now a method employed ultra-Orthodox rabbis and politicians to release yeshiva students arrested for draft evasion.

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