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  • Money laundering in the ultra-Orthodox world
    Written by on 03/01/2019
    Both in Israel and in the USA, money laundering is a common phenomenon in the ultra-Orthodox community. Just as MK Rabbi Gafni fought tooth and nail to protect ultra-Orthodox free loan societies from oversight, so too did the American ultra-Orthodox community lobby for the 2018 prison reform law passed by the US Congress and signed by President Trump.

  • Money laundering and white collar crimes in the Haredi community
    Written by on 02/01/2019
    Both in Israel and in the USA, money laundering is a common phenomenon in the ultra-Orthodox community.

  • Kosher slaughter now illegal in Belgium
    Written by Uri Regev on 01/01/2019
    With the turn of 2019, kosher slaughter in the northern Flanders region of Belgium, home to half of the country’s Jewish population and a major supplier of meat for European Jewish communities, became officially illegal.

  • Report: Haredi employment is down; Haredi poverty is up
    Written by Sagi Agmon on 21/12/2018
    Data from the Israel Democracy Institute's 2018 Statistical Report on Ultra-Orthodox Society in Israel supports Hiddush's data and analysis on the growing trend of ultra-Orthodox men studying in yeshivas instead of entering the workforce, as poverty rates rise.

  • Haredi employment is down; Haredi poverty is up
    Written by on 20/12/2018
    The Chief Rabbinate has finally heeded, under threat of litigation, Hiddush's demands regarding their excessive kashrut dictates.

  • International Human Rights Day survey: Israelis support marriage freedom
    Written by on 09/12/2018
    On December 10th the world is marking International Human Rights day. Hiddush looked into one of the main violations of human rights in Israel, which ironically mostly harms Jews: The right to marry!

  • International Human Rights Day survey: Israelis support marriage freedom
    Written by on 09/12/2018
    On December 10th the world is marking International Human Rights day. Hiddush looked into one of the main violations of human rights in Israel, which ironically mostly harms Jews: The right to marry!

  • Rabbis issue statement: abolish Chief Rabbinate!
    Written by on 06/12/2018
    As rabbis representing the full spectrum of Jewish denominational life, we no longer expect any flexibility, decency or inclusiveness from a body controlled by a monopoly that represents such a small, fundamentalist sliver of the Jewish rainbow.

  • Shaked won: The 'Jewish' has beaten the 'democratic'
    Written by Sagi Agmon on 22/11/2018
    It happened just this week. With little ado, the Supreme Court overturned a 25-year ruling and told the Rabbinical Courts that they could do whatever they please because the laws of the state no longer really apply to them.

  • Shaked won: The Jewish has beaten the democratic
    Written by on 22/11/2018
    The Israeli media has recently been discussing a new ruling by the Supreme Court, in which the Court approved the decision of the Rabbinical Courts regarding the ownership of a residence shared by a couple who are currently going through divorce proceedings.

  • Hiddush in the service of world Jewry
    Written by Uri Regev on 16/11/2018
    Every so often, Hiddush receives requests for assistance from outside of Israel. One recent appeal is particularly interesting and important, and we will continue to report on it again as it develops.

  • 21 MKs respond to Pittsburgh- “Time for Equality”
    Written by on 09/11/2018
    At the initiative of the Israeli Reform and Masorti movements, together with several MKs, a meeting was called on November 7, 2018. The goal was to strengthen Israel-Diaspora ties, advance religious tolerance, and recognize all streams of Judaism.

  • 21 MKs responding to Pittsburgh - “Time for Equality”
    Written by on 08/11/2018
    The MKs highlighted different aspects of the need to respond to the Pittsburgh massacre, not merely by identifying with the loss and pain of the Jewish community, not only by decrying growing anti-Semitic outbursts, but by changing Israel’s policies.

  • Israeli media speaks out for recognizing the streams
    Written by Uri Regev on 07/11/2018
    Anti-Semites don’t distinguish between Jews according to their denominations. That is a practice reserved for the Israeli government. Israeli media personalities and others have drawn conclusions from the massacre in Pittsburgh, which links this tragedy to Israel's religion-state policies.

  • Encouraging news on the modern Orthodox front
    Written by on 11/10/2018
    One recent development that has been the widely publicized is the joining of Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party by two Modern Orthodox activists – Tehilla Nachlaon Friedman and Moshe Tur-Paz

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