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  • 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.

  • Who is a Jew? Direct impact on Diaspora Jewry!
    Written by on 30/06/2016
    Even mainstream, renowned American Orthodox rabbis like Rabbi Haskel Lookstein are not "frum" enough for Israel's rabbinic establishment, which enjoys total control over major areas of Jewish life in the Jewish State!

  • 62% support right of non-Orthodox converts to use mikva'ot
    Written by on 28/06/2016
    86% of Israel's secular Jewish population support this right, but 91% of the ultra-Orthodox population is opposed. Hiddush VP Shahar Ilan: "This Knesset vote was nothing less than spitting in the face of world Jewry. The best way to predict the Government Coalition's course of action on matters of religion and state is to poll the Israeli public and assume that the Coalition will do exactly the opposite."

  • 62% support right of non-Orthodox converts to use mikva'ot
    Written by on 28/06/2016
    86% of Israel's secular Jewish population support this right, but 91% of the ultra-Orthodox population is opposed. Hiddush VP Shahar Ilan: "This Knesset vote was nothing less than spitting in the face of world Jewry. The best way to predict the Government Coalition's course of action on matters of religion and state is to poll the Israeli public and assume that the Coalition will do exactly the opposite."

  • Poll: 62% support right of non-Orthodox to use public mikvehs
    Written by on 28/06/2016
    Poll shows majority of Israelis opposed to 'Mikveh Law' which would bar non-Orthodox conversions in public mikvehs.

  • Rabbinate looking at licensing inspectors of kosher eateries
    Written by on 26/06/2016
    Under plan, governing body would authorize organizations to issue certificates, carry out supervisions

  • Ultra-Orthodox newspaper portrays Reform Jews as donkeys
    Written by on 24/06/2016
    Yated Ne'eman is the newspaper of the Degel HaTorah party, which sits in PM Netanyahu's Coalition. They think of Reform Jews as donkeys, and of the Supreme Court as a dangerous political player, which equates "true" Judaism with donkeys posing as Jews.

  • Ultra-Orthodox Parties Join Forces to Thwart Shabbat Buses in Israeli Cities
    Written by on 23/06/2016
    After a number of cities bypassed ban on public transportation on Jewish day of rest, religious parties take action, and they want Netanyahu's help.

  • In about-face, rabbinate says attendant not mandatory in ritual bath
    Written by on 22/06/2016
    In Israeli religious authorities’ allowing women to immerse in the mikveh in privacy, some see a possible recognition of other ways of expressing Judaism

  • More ultra-Orthodox Men Choose to Dedicate Life to Work Rather Than Studies
    Written by on 22/06/2016
    As of 2015, only 50% of Haredi men were registered with the Education Ministry as full-time students, down from 61% in 2010

  • The number of Haredi yeshiva students has fallen for the past 5 years
    Written by on 20/06/2016
    According to the Ministry of Education, the rise in the number of ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students has stopped, holding steady at approximately 70,000. The percentage of ultra-Orthodox men studying full-time in yeshivas dropped over the course of recent years from 61% to 50%.

  • 72% Jewish Israelis support public transportation on Shabbat
    Written by on 19/06/2016
    The gap between the public's support for public transportation on Shabbat and the cowardly, embarrassing intransigence of the Coalition is intolerable. MK Yael German (Yesh Atid): "A minority faction in the Knesset prevents such measures for social justice."

  • No buses on Jewish Sabbath, ministerial c'ttee rules
    Written by on 19/06/2016
    The ministerial legislation committee today rejected a bill proposed by MK Yael German (Yesh Atid) that would allow the local authorities to decide whether to operate public transportation on the Sabbath.

  • Israeli Government Shoots Down Shabbat Transport Proposal
    Written by on 19/06/2016
    Draft bill, which would allow cities to operate public transportation on Jewish day of rest, stymied by coalition considerations with ultra-Orthodox parties.

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