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  • Israeli religious leaders' theological responses to the US elections
    Written by on 15/11/2016
    Some days out after the US elections, we can now take a look and share with you an angle that has not been covered by the US media, including the Jewish media. Namely, the Israeli religious "angle," both prior to and immediately after the elections. Needless to say, Hiddush, which focuses solely on issues of religion and state in Israel, is not taking a stand on the merits of the campaigns, the desirability of the candidates, the election results, nor the plethora of political post-election reactions in Israel, mostly from settlers and right-wing political party leaders.

  • Hiddush Critical Of MK Amsellem’s ‘Ugly Dismissal Of American Jewry’
    Written by on 14/11/2016
    Hiddush strongly rejects the words of Interior Committee Chairman MK David Amsalem (Likud) who declared that “With all due respect to the Americans and American Jews, they cannot be influencing what goes on here. Let them get insulted if they want. There’s nothing wrong with that.”

  • MK Amsalem's ugly disdain for Diaspora Jewry
    Written by Uri Regev on 08/11/2016
    We who truly care about Israel's well-being and bond with world Jewry must not continue tolerating such contempt for (and humiliation of) Diaspora Jewry and the largest Jewish religious streams at the hands of the leaders of the parties that serve in his Government Coalition.

  • PM to Diaspora Jews: Be Patient! We say: NO!
    Written by Uri Regev on 04/11/2016
    Hiddush's simple, straightforward review of the comments regarding the Western Wall made by the Prime Minister, the Speaker of the Knesset, and the Head of the Opposition during the Jewish Agency's Board of Governors meeting this week, teaches us much about how Israel's political leadership prefers to deal with crises in Israel's relations to the Diaspora: it's called "Damage Control."

  • Orthodox Rabbis Support Egalitarian Kotel Section
    Written by on 04/11/2016
    Hiddush's review of the comments regarding the Western Wall made by the Prime Minister, the Speaker of the Knesset, and the Head of the Opposition teaches us much about how Israel's political leadership prefers to deal with crises in relations to the Diaspora: it's called "Damage Control."

  • Recent law diminishes freedom of religion in Israel
    Written by on 03/11/2016
    A recent law passed in the Knesset, on who can use publicly funded mikvaot (ritual baths) has been a setback for religious freedom in Israel. The new law bans non-Orthodox rabbis from using public mikvahs for Jewish conversion rituals.

  • Views of the Zionist Orthodox Community
    Written by on 22/10/2016
    In this issue, we dig down into two critical issues explored in the 2016 Index: The Israeli public's increasing support for marriage freedom, and the Zionist Orthodox community's views on religion & state matters

  • Sukkot 2016: Batya Kahana Dror, Esq.
    Written by on 21/10/2016
    Batya Kahana Dror, Esq. writes, "Getting married via the Rabbinate is not fitting for all couples. Sometimes this clashes with their worldviews, and sometimes it creates bureaucratic difficulties in simply obtaining the Rabbinate's permission to marry at all. Divorcing through the Rabbinate is also more difficult."

  • Sukkot 2016: Rabbi Meir Azari
    Written by on 21/10/2016
    Rabbi Meir Azari writes, "The recent years have seen a blossoming of Reform communities, Conservative, secular and the like, situated between what an Israeli would refer to as Orthodox and secular. Many are seeking a Jewish voice for good and equality."

  • Sukkot 2016: Tehila Friedman-Nachalon
    Written by on 21/10/2016
    Tehila Friedman-Nachalon writes, "The battles that Hiddush sees as battles for "religious freedom," I perceive as battles over the substance and understanding of the 'Jewish' in 'Jewish and democratic.'"

  • Sukkot 2016: Prof. Pinchas Shiffman
    Written by on 21/10/2016
    Professor Pinchas Shiffman writes, "The problem facing stringent religious Judaism is whether to accept a person who lives among us and truly wants to be a Jew, but does intend to be religious. This person's rejection reinforces the split between Jews according to religion and Jews according to nationality."

  • Sukkot 2016: Smadar Dekel Naim, Esq.
    Written by on 21/10/2016
    Smadar Dekel Naim, Esq. writes, "There is no reason whatsoever to be party to this religious coercion, especially at this most precious, family-oriented moment, and in the most personal of matters. Why should we hold non-egalitarian ceremonies, with rabbis who don't identify with our ways of life? Many of whom actually despise us?"

  • Sukkot 2016: Shira Ben Sasson-Furstenberg
    Written by on 21/10/2016
    Shira Ben Sasson-Furstenberg writes, "I don't want to be a Torah observant woman that is a guest in Israel's Jewish arena because she is not a man. It is expected that she will not participate, that she will remain behind the mehitza, at the back of the bus."

  • Women told not to walk on main road in ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem town
    Written by on 16/10/2016
    Females in Mea Sharim urged to use side streets and to minimise their visits to the neighbourhood

  • Posters in Mea Shearim ask women to avoid main street
    Written by on 15/10/2016
    After the High Court of Justice banned the use of partitions on public streets of the ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem neighborhood, pashkevils were posted telling women to not walk its main street during the upcoming days of the Sukkot holiday.

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