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  • 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.

  • 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.

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