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  • Hiddush Poll: 78% of the Jewish Israelis support recommendations of the Trajtenberg Committee
    Written by on 20/11/2011
    78% of the Jewish population of Israel support the recommendations of the Trajtenberg committee dealing with integrating ultra-Orthodox men into the work force, enforcing core curriculum, and limiting funding for yeshivas

  • Keeping women visible
    Written by on 17/11/2011
    Rabbi Uri Regev remarks on the removal of women from the public sphere.

  • Tzohar Rabbis Disingenuous In Their Campaign
    Written by Uri Regev on 15/11/2011
    Tzohar’s “victory for the Jewish People” is not in keeping with the pluralistic reality of the Jewish community in the United States from whom they have requested support.

  • Discrimination, Repression
    Written by on 13/11/2011
    Increasing gender segregation and discrimination against women, JTA covers Hiddush’s study of bus lines that force women to the back of the bus

  • Haredi Men at Work
    Written by on 13/11/2011
    JTA examines the potential integration of ultra-Orthodox men into the workforce, quoting Shahar Ilan on the challenges of population growth

  • 91% of Jewish religious population: Gender segregation is distortion of Judaism.
    Written by on 10/11/2011
    According to a survey by the Smith Institute for Hiddush, 89% of the Jewish public in Israel sees recent controversies over gender segregation in the streets of Mea Shearim and on bus lines as a distortion of Judaism (42%) or extremely unnecessary (47%).

  • Making Girls Invisible
    Written by on 10/11/2011
    Gender segregation affects children as well, as companies “sell women’s status for more ultra-Orthodox members,”

  • The Tzohar Debate
    Written by on 10/11/2011
    "Shas and the Religious Services Ministry are not missing any opportunity to make the public hate Judaism and drift away from it.”

  • Women Sing their Song
    Written by on 09/11/2011
    In response to the orthodox prohibition against women singers. Hila Bunyovich-Hoffman announced a street protest in which women will stand in public and sing.

  • Housing Requirements
    Written by on 07/11/2011
    Trajtenberg recommends having a job to be dropped as eligibility requirement for affordable housing. Hiddush shows 90% of non-religious Jews support the reform

  • Charge on priest quashed
    Written by on 31/10/2011
    Shahar Ilan calls on haredi leaders to denounce spitting at Christian clergy. “The haredi leadership has to understand a Jewish state brings responsibility."

  • We want Azaria!
    Written by on 26/10/2011
    Yerushalmim member expelled for petitioning High Court against gender separation.

  • Hiddush to the Treasury: Transfer allocated funds to recruit ultra-Orthodox men
    Written by on 24/10/2011
    Knesset working group discovers that recruitment of 200 ultra-Orthodox men was rejected because the Treasury is unwilling to fulfill commits to pay. Rabbi Uri Regev: “Recruiting ultra-Orthodox men is an investment in the economy, not rivaled by many.” Calls on ultra-Orthodox political parties to join the struggle

  • Social justice, religious freedom and the tent protests
    Written by on 22/10/2011
    Protest leaders did their utmost to stick to economic demands.

  • Social justice, religious freedom and the tent protests
    Written by Uri Regev on 22/10/2011
    Protest leaders did their utmost to stick to economic demands.

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