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  • Rabbis are undermining the foundations of the State
    Written by on 01/02/2018
    Yesterday, Defense Minister Liberman reacted to recent public pronouncements of leading Israeli rabbis from the "Zionist ultra-Orthodox" camp that were aimed against women's military service.

  • A constitutional bill to define Torah study as a form of national service
    Written by Uri Regev on 01/02/2018
    Today's news sheds light on a new effort by the Haredi parties to permanently avoid requiring their adherents to equally shoulder the burden of national security.

  • Rabbis are undermining the foundations of the State
    Written by on 01/02/2018
    Defense Minister Liberman reacted to recent public pronouncements of leading Israeli rabbis from the "Zionist ultra-Orthodox" camp that were aimed against women's military service.

  • Israeli couples are voting with their feet!
    Written by Uri Regev on 30/01/2018
    The Ministry of Religious Services has now reported a 4% drop in the number of couples marrying via the Rabbinate from 2016 to 2017. (The decline is really greater, because they ignore the increase in the Jewish population). In Tel Aviv the decline is greater than 15%!!

  • The Intrusive Ways Israel Maintains the Purity of the Jewish Priestly Dynasty
    Written by on 27/01/2018
    Israel intervenes in people's choice of last name and even in gender selection of embryos in order to keep the Jewish priestly class pure for 'when the Messiah comes'

  • 44 Chareidi Mosdos Fined Millions Of Shekels For Failing To Teach English And Math
    Written by on 23/01/2018
    Israel’s Ministry of Education has fined 44 chareidi educational institutions affiliated with Shas and Agudas Yisrael for failing to adhere to laws compelling teaching core subject matter including English and math.

  • Are American Jews obsessed with the Kotel?
    Written by on 18/01/2018
    At this time, we want to share with you an important exposition of the debate over the place of the Kotel controversy in the American Jewish public discourse and American Jewry's efforts at influencing Israeli policies.

  • Supermarket law buys Netanyahu's coalition more time
    Written by on 09/01/2018
    In September 2016, the fourth Netanyahu government was facing its first coalition crisis, with the ultra-Orthodox fuming over railroad maintenance work conducted on the Sabbath.

  • Shabbat wars flare up at the Knesset
    Written by on 04/01/2018
    The approaching vote over the “Market’s Bill”, labeled by the public as a “Shabbat Bill” is representative of the mounting public and political debate over the clash of religion and state.

  • The Knesset's pending vote on the Convenience Store Bill
    Written by on 02/01/2018
    Hiddush sent all members of the Knesset the following report in advance of the Knesset vote on operating convenience stores on Shabbat in Israel. What does the public think of the Government's acquiescence to the ultra-Orthodox parties' demands to use legislative and policy channels in order to pass a law against operating local businesses on Shabbat?

  • 72% of the Israeli public supports permitting work on Shabbat
    Written by on 25/12/2017
    72% of the public opposes the dictates of the ultra-Orthodox parties and supports permitting work on Shabbat

  • An End-of-Year review for Hiddush
    Written by Uri Regev on 21/12/2017
    With the end of the year approaching, we turn to you with a request to support the work of Hiddush and generously donate to us to enable us to expand and strengthen our advocacy work to promote freedom of religion and equality for all.

  • Hiddush: Ending fraudulent IDF religious exemption
    Written by on 21/12/2017
    Six years after the enactment of an amendment to the Security Service Law to establish a process for revoking thousands of women's exemptions for falsely claiming to having religious lifestyles that conflict with IDF service, the law has remained a dead letter. The prerequisite regulations have not been enacted, and the amendment could not be implemented.

  • Thousands continue to receive IDF exemptions for false religious claims
    Written by on 21/12/2017
    Six years after the enactment of the law to establish an administrative process for revoking thousands of women's falsely obtained exemptions for having religious beliefs that conflict with IDF service, the process of approving the regulations to prevent such women from dodging the draft has not occurred, despite the continued phony claims of religious values.

  • Conversion compromise postponed - again.
    Written by Uri Regev on 19/12/2017
    Efforts to draft a compromise agreement between the Haredi political parties and the Reform and Conservative movements in Israel over the issue of Jewish conversion will not be finished before a six-month deadline arrives at the end of this month.

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