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  • For Israelis who flee the ultra-Orthodox fold, a brave new world
    Written by on 23/01/2016
    A flood of ugly rumors were the final straw that pushed Yisrael Heller to flee the strict, ultra-Orthodox community with his family, in the dead of night. The Hellers are part of a wave of Israelis who are severing ties with the Haredi world.

  • Critics Compare Israel’s Religious Freedoms to Saudi Arabia: Rabbis Deny 1 in 10 Jews the Right to Marry in Israel
    Written by on 22/01/2016
    More than one in 10 Israeli Jews cannot marry legally in their own country, Israeli legislators heard last week, as Israel’s religious authorities face a growing backlash against their wide-ranging powers.

  • Israeli groups win grants to champion marriage outside rabbinate
    Written by on 22/01/2016
    Funding from various Jewish federations to go toward encouraging alternative wedding ceremonies

  • Rabbis deny 1 in 10 Jews the right to marry in Israel
    Written by on 21/01/2016
    Supreme religious body faces growing backlash as critics compare Israel’s religious freedoms to Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan

  • Marriage freedom by the numbers
    Written by on 14/01/2016
    This week, Hiddush released its new presentation titled, 'Marriage Freedom in Israel: by the Numbers,' which provides answers to the questions most often asked about the condition of marriage freedom in Israel, and related issues. Shahar Ilan, the Hiddush VP of Research and Information, presented the data at the meeting of the Knesset's Peoplehood, Religion, & State Caucus.

  • Hiddush presents: Marriage freedom by the numbers
    Written by on 13/01/2016
    Hiddush released its new presentation titled, 'Marriage Freedom in Israel: by the Numbers,' which provides answers to the questions most often asked about the condition of marriage freedom in Israel, and related issues. Shahar Ilan, the Hiddush VP of Research and Information, presented the data at the meeting of the Knesset's Peoplehood, Religion, & State Caucus.

  • Marital rights
    Written by on 12/01/2016
    The time will come when Israel's political leadership will be forced to reform the anachronistic millet system.

  • Rabbinate's Strict Rules Bar 660K Jews From Marrying in Israel
    Written by on 12/01/2016
    Prohibitions on civil and non-Orthodox weddings in Israel prevent 660,000 Jewish-Israelis — including 364,000 immigrants from the former Soviet Union — from marrying in the Jewish state, according to a nonprofit promoting religious freedom in Israel.

  • 660,000 Israelis unable to get married here
    Written by on 12/01/2016
    Prohibitions on civil and non-Orthodox weddings block 364,000 immigrants, 284,000 gays and lesbians, 13,000 non-Orthodox converts to Judaism, Knesset caucus told

  • President Rivlin's response to Rabbis Jacobs' & Wernick's demands
    Written by Uri Regev on 11/01/2016
    Rabbi Uri Regev unpacks an encounter between President Rivlin and U.S. rabbis of different denominations, and considers its actual substance, regarding whether we are indeed witnessing a change of heart on Rivlin’s part, and what this exchange may suggest for future strategy in this arena.

  • 'Hundreds of thousands can’t marry in Israel'
    Written by on 11/01/2016
    There is growing mistrust in the chief rabbinate which has exclusive jurisdiction over marriage and divorce, and the increasing public support for civil marriage.

  • 660,000 Jewish-Israelis can’t legally marry in Israel
    Written by on 11/01/2016
    Prohibitions on civil and non-Orthodox weddings in Israel prevent 660,000 Jewish-Israelis — including 364,000 immigrants from the former Soviet Union — from marrying in the Jewish state, according to a nonprofit promoting religious freedom in Israel.

  • Hiddush demands appointment of women to religious councils
    Written by on 08/01/2016
    The ultra-Orthodox Shas party's Minister of Religious Services David Azoulay has appointed six “appointees” for four religious councils since assuming office after the May 2015 Knesset elections. Minister Azoulay, like his predecessors, has not appointed a single woman, despite Israeli law and the commitment the Ministry made to the AG office in the past to exercise affirmative action in this arena.

  • Rabbinate ordered to make public its list of ‘acceptable’ Diaspora rabbis
    Written by on 07/01/2016
    In court battle closely watched by world Jewry, Israel’s top religious authority must produce names of rabbis whose testimony it accepts when determining Jewishness

  • Soldiers OK’d for military cemetery sans religious rite
    Written by on 07/01/2016
    Israeli soldiers killed in the line of duty may now be buried in a military cemetery without a religious ceremony.

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