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  • The Kotel Agreement – Multiple Perspectives
    Written by Uri Regev on 24/02/2016
    The picture that emerges now is fuller and more complex. On the side of those involved in reaching the agreement, additional perspectives have been emerging. Below, we will attempt to organize the primary views and arguments that were heard following the agreement, both pro, con, and those in-between.

  • Landmark ruling to allow non-Orthodox converts access to all mikva’ot
    Written by Uri Regev on 23/02/2016
    A new front, far more vicious and perilous, has emerged. The Chief Rabbinate and ultra-Orthodox politicians are gearing up to prevent the implementation of this ruling to further undermine the Supreme Court and demonize the non-Orthodox movements.

  • Landmark ruling to allow non-Orthodox converts access to all mikva’ot
    Written by on 22/02/2016
    The state had already argued, in trying to justify the discrimination, that the law requires Religious Councils to abide “by the rulings of the rabbinate.”

  • 70 percent of local religious councils run by political appointee
    Written by on 22/02/2016
    Local religious councils are responsible for providing Jewish religious services residents of the local municipal area.

  • The Western Wall prayer decision and the shifting Israel-Diaspora paradigm
    Written by on 19/02/2016
    The Israeli government’s passage of legislation that authorizes egalitarian prayer in a soon-to-be-created section adjacent to the southern part of the Western Wall has been called groundbreaking, empowering, dramatic, and unprecedented.

  • Religious parties declare war against Supreme Court
    Written by on 18/02/2016
    What is worrisome and characteristic is that yesterday, it was announced that all three religious parties - the ultra-Orthodox Shas and UTJ, and the Zionist Orthodox Jewish Home - have all signed off on Gafni's legislative initiative to undo the Supreme Court ruling giving non-Orthodox converts access to Israel's public mikva'ot.

  • Think love knows no boundaries? Try getting married in Israel
    Written by on 18/02/2016
    “There are 45 countries in the world that impose severe restrictions on the rights to marry of their citizens,” explains Rabbi Uri Regev. “Israel is the only democracy in the world that falls into that category.”

  • Ultra-Orthodox Enlistment in Israeli Military Meets Target, Falls Short of National Service Quota
    Written by on 15/02/2016
    While the ultra-Orthodox community is fulfilling its government-mandated enlistment objectives for the Israel Defense Forces, it is falling far short in supplying volunteers for civilian service, so that overall the community is not meeting its quotas for national service.

  • 71% of Israeli Jews: Rabbinate's monopoly distances Jews from Judaism
    Written by on 14/02/2016
    Not only is the denial of the freedom to marry antithetical to core democratic principles, but it also undermines Jewish interests. 71% of the Israeli Jewish public maintain that the Chief Rabbinate's and the rabbinical courts' monopoly over marriage and divorce distances Jews from Judaism.

  • 71% of Israeli Jews: Rabbinate's monopoly distances Jews from Judaism
    Written by on 14/02/2016
    Not only is the denial of the freedom to marry antithetical to core democratic principles, but it also undermines Jewish interests. 71% of the Israeli Jewish public maintain that the Chief Rabbinate's and the rabbinical courts' monopoly over marriage and divorce distances Jews from Judaism.

  • Israeli Cabinet’s decision to create a place where non-Orthodox men and women can worship together
    Written by on 12/02/2016
    The ruling, which was handed down Jan. 31, designates Robinson’s Arch along the southern portion of the Western Wall as a place reserved for Reform, Reconstructionist and Conservative male and female Jews to worship together. It is separated from the gender-segregated area at the well-known Western Wall plaza.

  • Mixed-Gender Prayer Site Creates Rift Between Jews
    Written by on 11/02/2016
    Many people celebrated when the Israeli government approved a mixed-prayer area to be formed at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City. To progressives, the new area represents one more step toward gender equality within Judaism.

  • After 27 years, men and women will be able to pray together at Western Wall
    Written by on 11/02/2016
    After a long dispute, the ultra-Orthodox and progressive Judaism movements have reached a historic compromise on a mixed-gender praying space at the Western Wall.

  • Politicians heap insults upon non-Orthodox Jewry
    Written by on 08/02/2016
    Will Netanyahu seriously take a stand, confront these bigoted leaders and do something of substance against their venomous insults? Moreover, will Netanyahu do what it takes to truly ensure that all Jews feel at home in Israel, and that equality and pluralism extend beyond the southern Kotel plaza?

  • Israel cabinet now allows non-Orthodox Jewish to pray at Western Wall
    Written by on 08/02/2016
    After years of rancor over rituals at the Western Wall, one of the holiest sites in Judaism, the Israeli government Sunday approved the creation of an upgraded egalitarian prayer space there for non-Orthodox Jews.

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