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  • Supreme Court rules on illegal writs of refusal from rabbinical court
    Written by on 19/07/2016
    The Supreme Court required the Attorney General's office to decide soon whether or not to file charges against the judges of the private, ultra-Orthodox rabbinical court who issued an excommunication notice to a Haredi resident Elad who are also suspected of blackmail, threatening private citizens, and obstruction of justice.

  • Anti-democratic rabbinic appointments in the Jewish State
    Written by on 18/07/2016
    Last week we were sensitized once again to the pitfalls of State empowered and appointed rabbinic authorities, with the appointments of a new Military Chief Rabbi and rabbinic judges to Israel's Rabbinic Court of Appeal.

  • What’s Your Beef?
    Written by on 18/07/2016
    A new lawsuit challenges Israeli rules for kosher meat, calling them a corrupt windfall for the Orthodox rabbinate

  • An open letter to Natan Sharansky
    Written by on 18/07/2016
    As praiseworthy as Mr. Sharansky's solidarity with Rabbi Lookstein was at the demonstration and in the media, it is high time for the Jewish Agency's leader to consider that a more inclusive step is necessary.

  • The silly season has begun
    Written by on 17/07/2016
    The most serious conflict point, according to the report, is between Jews and Arabs, cited by 53% of the respondents, followed by that between Left and Right (24%) and only then religious and secular.

  • An end to core curriculum studies for Haredi pupils
    Written by on 17/07/2016
    Yesh Atid released a statement on Sunday accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of placing political interests above the good of Israeli children.

  • An open letter to Natan Sharansky
    Written by on 17/07/2016
    In rightly stressing the need for Israel to welcome the young generation of Diaspora Jewry, Mr. Sharansky must know that the majority of that youth will not be accepted as Jewish by Israel’s rabbinate, and would be excluded and humiliated.

  • An open letter to Natan Sharansky
    Written by on 16/07/2016
    You praised the rabbinate for “connecting the Jewish state with Judaism.” Sadly, you are wrong, for the monopolistic and coercive rabbinate is alienating Israeli Jews from Judaism.

  • An open letter to Natan Sharansky
    Written by Uri Regev on 16/07/2016
    Mr. Sharansky, you praised the rabbinate for “connecting the Jewish state with Judaism.” Sadly, you are wrong, for the monopolistic and coercive rabbinate is alienating Israeli Jews from Judaism.

  • Lookstein, Sharansky call for rabbinic reform, not revolution
    Written by on 14/07/2016
    Three months after Israel’s chief rabbinate rejected his authority to perform conversions, one of America’s most prominent modern Orthodox rabbis joined with Natan Sharansky to advance a message.

  • Israeli religious court goes off the deep end
    Written by on 13/07/2016
    Why would a rabbinic court in the world’s only Jewish state do something that would blatantly turn off most of the world’s Jews?

  • Top U.S. Orthodox Rabbi Calls for Reform of Israeli Rabbinate That Challenged His Authority
    Written by on 09/07/2016
    Rabbi Haskel Lookstein has joined forces with Natan Sharansky to protest the Chief Rabbinate's rejection of his authority to perform conversions.

  • In Rabbinate protest, Lookstein and Sharansky call for revisions, not revolution
    Written by on 08/07/2016
    Three months after Israel’s Chief Rabbinate rejected his authority to perform conversions, one of America’s most prominent Modern Orthodox rabbis joined with Natan Sharansky to advance a message.

  • Lapid denies he's giving up efforts to draft haredim
    Written by on 05/07/2016
    Yesh Atid head confronted after saying the haredi draft won't be on table for next gov. Says it's because he thinks Court will decide first.

  • Rabbi Haskel Lookstein's degrading experience
    Written by Uri Regev on 30/06/2016
    If we needed any further reminder that the issue of "Who is a Jew" hits directly home in North America, the recent news regarding the refusal of the Israeli Rabbinic courts to accept Rabbi Haskel Lookstein's conversions is the most recent case in point.

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