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  • The Kotel controversy - Uri Regev's perspective
    Written by on 02/11/2017
    Many are following the twists and turns of the Kotel controversy with great interest and often anxiety. While grateful to the Jewish Week for featuring my take on the current state of the controversy, Uri feel that further contextualization is needed.

  • Religious extremism emanating from Israel
    Written by on 20/10/2017
    Not content to exert their influence within the Haredi community, fundamentalist religious leaders and their sponsors have taken to attacking the Modern Orthodoxy community, which extols the virtues of Torah together with modernity and secular education.

  • The religion-state aspects of Israel's Nation-state bill
    Written by on 19/10/2017
    Next week the Knesset Special Committee on the Nation-State Bill (formally, 'Basic Law: Israel - The Nation-State of the Jewish People') will be deliberating on the revised draft bill, which was initiated by fourteen MKs from the Likud, Jewish Home, Yisrael Beiteinu, and Kulanu parties.

  • The religion-state aspects of Israel's Nation-state bill
    Written by Uri Regev on 18/10/2017
    Next week the Knesset Special Committee on the Nation-State Bill (formally, 'Basic Law: Israel - The Nation-State of the Jewish People') will be deliberating on the revised draft bill, which was initiated by fourteen MKs from the Likud, Jewish Home, Yisrael Beiteinu, and Kulanu parties.

  • Hiddush scores victory in Jerusalem district court
    Written by on 03/10/2017
    Hiddush just scored a victory in the Jerusalem District Court in a freedom-of-information case, involving a huge amount of governmental grant monies, exceeding one hundred million NIS, provided to mostly Orthodox religious outreach organizations

  • Hiddush in pursuit of legal justice
    Written by on 02/10/2017
    Hiddush just scored a victory in the Jerusalem District Court in a freedom-of-information case, involving a huge amount of governmental grant monies, exceeding one hundred million NIS, provided to mostly Orthodox religious outreach organizations by multiple governmental agencies

  • What they say about non-Orthodox Jews
    Written by on 30/09/2017
    Netanyahu told reporters in New York that the Reform and Conservative movements wanted to get recognition “via the backdoor, secretly, under the pretext of a technical clause of joint administration of the Western Wall.”

  • Yom Kippur sermon 5778: Suite 117
    Written by on 30/09/2017
    The Israeli government’s decision to back out of its pledge to expand a non-Orthodox prayer space at the Western Wall, and ongoing discrimination against the Reform and Conservative movements, have brought to a head a crisis that has been brewing for decades. If not resolved, this crisis will destroy the relationship between the Jewish state and the Jewish people.

  • Kosher? Historic ruling lets Israeli diners decide
    Written by on 26/09/2017
    For decades, Israeli restaurateurs who served kosher food but who did not want to submit to the authority of the stringent Chief Rabbinate risked being shut down at a moment’s notice.

  • More and More Israelis want Clear Religion – State Demarcation
    Written by on 24/09/2017
    The portion of the Israeli public that wants to see religion and state clearly separated is already a clear majority and continues to grow rapidly according to a new Religion & State Index released by Hiddush, a non-governmental organization that advocates the separation.

  • Rosh HaShana sermon 5778: Being a Good Jew
    Written by on 21/09/2017
    Most of us were born after the rise of a Jewish State, and can't imagine life otherwise. But some people consider it God's miracle.

  • Shana Tova from Hiddush
    Written by on 19/09/2017
    This has been a very productive week for Hiddush on two fronts: The 2017 Israel Religion & State Index, and the Vision State for a Jewish democratic statement, written by Rabbis Marc Angel and Uri Regev.

  • Israel Religion & State Index 2017
    Written by on 18/09/2017
    65% of the Jewish Israeli public supports granting equal official status to the three largest streams of world Jewry. A majority supports the involvement of Diaspora Jewry in promoting freedom of religion and equality in Israel. 65% of the Jewish Israeli public believes that the Nation-State Bill should anchor the guarantee of freedom of religion and conscience in law.

  • Israel Religion & State Index 2017
    Written by on 18/09/2017
    65% of the Jewish Israeli public supports granting equal official status to the three largest streams of world Jewry. A majority supports the involvement of Diaspora Jewry in promoting freedom of religion and equality in Israel. 65% of the Jewish Israeli public believes that the Nation-State Bill should anchor the guarantee of freedom of religion and conscience in law.

  • Mayim Bialik, Michael Douglas join call for religious freedom in Israel
    Written by on 15/09/2017
    Statement signed by dozens of rabbis, leaders and celebrities across religious spectrum urges Israeli reforms, including for civil marriage and gender equality at holy sites

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