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  • 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.

  • Fallen Israeli Soldiers Can Be Buried Without Religious Rites
    Written by on 06/01/2016
    Israeli soldiers killed in the line of duty may now be buried in a military cemetery without a religious ceremony.

  • Israel Nixes Excavations Under Area Slated for New Jerusalem Homes Amid ultra-Orthodox Pressure
    Written by on 05/01/2016
    Antiques Authority forced to leave site after Shas leader Arye Dery raised issue with Netanyahu, who ordered that work be stopped.

  • IDF to permit non-religious burial with full military honors
    Written by on 03/01/2016
    Hiddush sent letters to Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon and IDF Chief of Staff demanding that an “alternative civilian” burial plot be established in every military cemetery in the country in which nonreligious military services or pluralistic military burials can be conducted.

  • Hiddush makes progress on military burial rights for IDF soldiers
    Written by on 29/12/2015
    Once again, Hiddush is impacting on Israeli governmental policies, advancing religious freedom and equality. This time – it’s about a very painful and sensitive issue: burial of fallen soldiers. Last week we were informed of the acceptance of our demands (although we will have to follow the implementation, as we know from past experience…).

  • IDF concedes - we will implement civil military burials
    Written by on 29/12/2015
    1) Hiddush demands civil military burial options for non-halakhically Jewish soldiers, 2) The Rabbinate pushes illegal anti-Christmas policy in Israel's hotels, 3) Ministry of Religious Services budget increases by more than 100% in 2015.

  • The Chief Rabbinate's anti-Christmas policy
    Written by Uri Regev on 29/12/2015
    The ban on placing Christmas trees in hotels is but one example of the many ways that the rabbinate disregards the law and extorts submission to its norms in breach of the law.

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