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  • Hiddush to Labor Party candidates: Spell out your positions on issues
    Written by on 15/06/2011
    Hiddush sent the six candidates a questionnaire in which it asks them to specify their positions on a series of subjects: civil marriage, core curriculum studies, conversion, funding for yeshivas, and more. Hiddush: Labor’s positions on matters of religion and state will significantly affect its chances of recovery

  • Yeshiva Students Cheat Ministry
    Written by on 13/06/2011
    10,000 Yeshiva students have been playing hooky and bilking Israel’s Ministry of Education of NIS 4.5 million, according to a recent audit.

  • Who revoked Ruth's conversion?
    Written by on 07/06/2011
    On the eve of Shavuot, Hiddush launches campaign to bring attention to the issue of conversion in Israel

  • The Haredi Establishment Versus Ruth the Moabite
    Written by on 07/06/2011
    If Ruth the Moabite were alive today, no court in Israel would be able to let her convert, and King David would never have been born. The haredi establishment constitutes an almost impenetrable barrier on the road to Judaism, and its hand is very light on the trigger when it comes to overturning conversions. The time has come to dismantle the haredi monopoly.

  • A Free Market for Beliefs
    Written by on 01/06/2011
    A Hiddush program for privatizing religious services and eliminating the monopoly on them.

  • Elad Poster Outs Couple for Immodest Behavior
    Written by on 30/05/2011
    A pashkevil went up over the weekend in Elad, warning the public about a woman and man who did “grave deeds:” Elad is a religious city outside of Petach Tikva.

  • Human Rights And The Supreme Court
    Written by on 29/05/2011
    Israel has never had a constitution and has relied on its Declaration of Independence and judges to maintain equality

  • Changing From Religious To Civil Marriages
    Written by on 29/05/2011
    A comparative study for transitioning from religious to civil marriage systems

  • Civil Marriage In Israel
    Written by on 26/05/2011
    More than 5% of Israelis cannot get married in the State. Among them non-Halachic Jews, illegitimate children, abandoned wives, etc. Civil marriage is an option Israel continues to ignore

  • Municipal Rabbis Get 250% Raise
    Written by on 25/05/2011
    In a struggling economy, the ultra-Orthodox lock in a 250% raise for their own municipal rabbis

  • A raise for the raised?
    Written by on 24/05/2011
    Haaretz, 24.05.11. A new agreement raises the salaries of the new rabbis to between NIS 16,000 - 29,000. Shahar Ilan: "The municipal rabbis positions existed mainly for political appointments... Instead of giving them grand salaries we should cancel the position altogether."

  • Amsalem Reaches Out To Anglos
    Written by on 22/05/2011
    US–born Rabbi Dov Lipman to seek Knesset seat with ex-Shas maverick MK’s Am Shalem party.

  • Ovadia favours women
    Written by on 18/05/2011
    Ha'aretz, 18.05.2011. Even Ovadia Yosef supports the appointment of women to religious councils. Rabbi Regev: "The legal obligation to appoint women to public positions must be implemented de facto and not just as a fig leaf."

  • Women On Religious Councils
    Written by on 16/05/2011
    Hiddush study shows women make up only 5% of religious councils

  • Following Hiddush report, Margi Undertakes to Appoint Women to Religious Councils
    Written by on 16/05/2011
    In a letter to Hiddush head Rabbi Uri Regev, the religious affairs minister writes that Shas leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef also favors appointing women council members. Regev: ‘Breakthrough is welcome but Shas still views women as decoration and not a single woman is in charge of a council’

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