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  • Sagi Agmon, Adv.
    Written by on 25/01/2010
    Mr. Agmon specialises in administrative law and work with NGOs and nonprofit organisations, including those in the realm of religion and state. He is a long-time activist against religious coercion. He joined Hiddush in September 2016

  • What's Up With Shas and the Zionist Movement?
    Written by on 25/01/2010
    If Shas is not prepared to adopt democracy and equality, its participation in the Zionist Federation should be prevented. If its intentions are opposed to these values, the best thing is for Shas to declare this openly.

  • Op-Ed: Israel Must Break Growing Stranglehold of Religion
    Written by on 28/10/2009
    Hiddush, a transdenominational advocacy and public education organization seeks to change the status quo of a monopoly on religious practice and expression

  • Will the ultra-Orthodox hold Israel back?
    Written by Stanley P. Gold on 04/10/2009
    Government subsidies, lower education expectations and political policies biased in favor of a religious minority impede the Jewish nation's future.

  • Rabbis Are Leading The Religious Struggles
    Written by on 24/09/2009
    The public is not buying the claim that the shabbat militants are motivated by ethical reasons. 74% of the Jewish public: Judaism unifies, the rabbis divide. 53%: the police are handling the demonstrations too leniently.

  • The Conversion Law Fraud
    Written by Uri Regev on 22/09/2009
    The conversion law proposal that was supposed to help immigrants from the former Soviet Union has undergone changes which only strengthen the monopoly of the Chief Rabbinate. How the mighty have fallen.

  • Israelis support gay marriage
    Written by on 22/09/2009
    Hiddush’s Religion and State Index, conducted by the Smith Research Institute: 53% of Israel’s Jewish citizens, including 74% of secular Jews, are in favor of letting same-sex partners get married

  • 25 Facts about Religion and State in Israel
    Written by on 15/09/2009
    The "status quo" agreement reached at the founding of the state between the country’s founders and the mainstream Orthodox rabbinical councils, which has been upheld throughout the state's history, requires that the Government implement some policies based on Orthodox Jewish interpretations of religious law.

  • Recommit to Israel's Founding Vision
    Written by on 11/04/2009
    Israel was established on the basis of religious freedoms; where do we go from here?

  • Court grants non-Orthodox conversions
    Written by on 31/05/2005
    Supreme Court approves several local Reform and Conservative conversions; case marks first time local non-Orthodox converts granted citizenship

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