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  • Summer 2010 Index
    Written by on 10/10/2010
    The study was carried out by the Smith Research Institute on behalf of Hiddush – Religious Freedom for Israel

  • Good intentions, wrong solution
    Written by on 24/09/2010
    The international battle over the Rotem conversion bill can only end with Israel instituting the ‘freedom of religion’ principle.

  • The Lesson Ram Emmanuel Learned in the Holy Land
    Written by on 30/05/2010
    Haredim control the area around the Kotel (Western Wall), and anyone whose Judaism is a little different cannot celebrate his Bar Mitzvah there except in the way that they dictate. The White House Chief of Staff got an illustration of the violation of the freedom of religion in Israel.

  • The Mea She'arim mob
    Written by Shahar Ilan on 11/05/2010
    Soldiers patrolling through the streets of Mea She'arim during Passover week found themselves in a situation they generally encounter only on the Palestinian side of the border.

  • Report on Gender-Segregated Buses Segregation 2010
    Written by on 15/03/2010
    2,500 Gender-Segregated Bus Rides a Day

  • Sagi Agmon, Adv.
    Written by on 25/01/2010
    Mr. Agmon specialises in administrative law and work with NGOs and nonprofit organisations, including those in the realm of religion and state. He is a long-time activist against religious coercion. He joined Hiddush in September 2016

  • What's Up With Shas and the Zionist Movement?
    Written by on 25/01/2010
    If Shas is not prepared to adopt democracy and equality, its participation in the Zionist Federation should be prevented. If its intentions are opposed to these values, the best thing is for Shas to declare this openly.

  • Op-Ed: Israel Must Break Growing Stranglehold of Religion
    Written by on 28/10/2009
    Hiddush, a transdenominational advocacy and public education organization seeks to change the status quo of a monopoly on religious practice and expression

  • Will the ultra-Orthodox hold Israel back?
    Written by Stanley P. Gold on 04/10/2009
    Government subsidies, lower education expectations and political policies biased in favor of a religious minority impede the Jewish nation's future.

  • Rabbis Are Leading The Religious Struggles
    Written by on 24/09/2009
    The public is not buying the claim that the shabbat militants are motivated by ethical reasons. 74% of the Jewish public: Judaism unifies, the rabbis divide. 53%: the police are handling the demonstrations too leniently.

  • The Conversion Law Fraud
    Written by Uri Regev on 22/09/2009
    The conversion law proposal that was supposed to help immigrants from the former Soviet Union has undergone changes which only strengthen the monopoly of the Chief Rabbinate. How the mighty have fallen.

  • Israelis support gay marriage
    Written by on 22/09/2009
    Hiddush’s Religion and State Index, conducted by the Smith Research Institute: 53% of Israel’s Jewish citizens, including 74% of secular Jews, are in favor of letting same-sex partners get married

  • 25 Facts about Religion and State in Israel
    Written by on 15/09/2009
    The "status quo" agreement reached at the founding of the state between the country’s founders and the mainstream Orthodox rabbinical councils, which has been upheld throughout the state's history, requires that the Government implement some policies based on Orthodox Jewish interpretations of religious law.

  • Recommit to Israel's Founding Vision
    Written by on 11/04/2009
    Israel was established on the basis of religious freedoms; where do we go from here?

  • Court grants non-Orthodox conversions
    Written by on 31/05/2005
    Supreme Court approves several local Reform and Conservative conversions; case marks first time local non-Orthodox converts granted citizenship

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