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  • Will the Pew Israel Report Open our Eyes?
    Written by Uri Regev on 10/03/2016
    Rabbi Uri Regev presents his first impressions of the 2016 Pew report on Israel's Religiously Divided Society. His intimate familiarity with the subject matter and the population surveyed provide him a unique prism, which served him in assessing the report.

  • Will the Pew Israel Report open our eyes?
    Written by on 10/03/2016
    Hiddush's initial analysis covers several different findings and methodological choices of the new Pew study.

  • Not Jewish enough to marry in Israel? NIF says no way
    Written by on 03/03/2016
    In Israel, unlike in the United States couples who want to marry don’t have the option of having a civil, secular marriage. Marriage is conducted through religious authorities only, and for Jews, the institution is controlled by the Orthodox Chief Rabbinate.

  • Tikkun Olam Nation is a deeper Israel
    Written by on 02/03/2016
    In recent years, pro-Israel groups have been faced with an unusual dilemma: How do you create a good impression for Israel when the country’s image has already been tainted by the over-the-top criticism and condemnations it receives from much of the world?

  • The Kotel Agreement – Multiple Perspectives
    Written by on 25/02/2016
    It’s been three weeks since the dramatic agreement over pluralistic worship at the Kotel was reached with the Reform and Conservative movements and Women of the Wall. The picture that emerges now is fuller and more complex than it seemed when the agreement was approved by the government.

  • The Kotel Agreement – Multiple Perspectives
    Written by Uri Regev on 24/02/2016
    The picture that emerges now is fuller and more complex. On the side of those involved in reaching the agreement, additional perspectives have been emerging. Below, we will attempt to organize the primary views and arguments that were heard following the agreement, both pro, con, and those in-between.

  • Landmark ruling to allow non-Orthodox converts access to all mikva’ot
    Written by Uri Regev on 23/02/2016
    A new front, far more vicious and perilous, has emerged. The Chief Rabbinate and ultra-Orthodox politicians are gearing up to prevent the implementation of this ruling to further undermine the Supreme Court and demonize the non-Orthodox movements.

  • Landmark ruling to allow non-Orthodox converts access to all mikva’ot
    Written by on 22/02/2016
    The state had already argued, in trying to justify the discrimination, that the law requires Religious Councils to abide “by the rulings of the rabbinate.”

  • 70 percent of local religious councils run by political appointee
    Written by on 22/02/2016
    Local religious councils are responsible for providing Jewish religious services residents of the local municipal area.

  • The Western Wall prayer decision and the shifting Israel-Diaspora paradigm
    Written by on 19/02/2016
    The Israeli government’s passage of legislation that authorizes egalitarian prayer in a soon-to-be-created section adjacent to the southern part of the Western Wall has been called groundbreaking, empowering, dramatic, and unprecedented.

  • Religious parties declare war against Supreme Court
    Written by on 18/02/2016
    What is worrisome and characteristic is that yesterday, it was announced that all three religious parties - the ultra-Orthodox Shas and UTJ, and the Zionist Orthodox Jewish Home - have all signed off on Gafni's legislative initiative to undo the Supreme Court ruling giving non-Orthodox converts access to Israel's public mikva'ot.

  • Think love knows no boundaries? Try getting married in Israel
    Written by on 18/02/2016
    “There are 45 countries in the world that impose severe restrictions on the rights to marry of their citizens,” explains Rabbi Uri Regev. “Israel is the only democracy in the world that falls into that category.”

  • Ultra-Orthodox Enlistment in Israeli Military Meets Target, Falls Short of National Service Quota
    Written by on 15/02/2016
    While the ultra-Orthodox community is fulfilling its government-mandated enlistment objectives for the Israel Defense Forces, it is falling far short in supplying volunteers for civilian service, so that overall the community is not meeting its quotas for national service.

  • 71% of Israeli Jews: Rabbinate's monopoly distances Jews from Judaism
    Written by on 14/02/2016
    Not only is the denial of the freedom to marry antithetical to core democratic principles, but it also undermines Jewish interests. 71% of the Israeli Jewish public maintain that the Chief Rabbinate's and the rabbinical courts' monopoly over marriage and divorce distances Jews from Judaism.

  • 71% of Israeli Jews: Rabbinate's monopoly distances Jews from Judaism
    Written by on 14/02/2016
    Not only is the denial of the freedom to marry antithetical to core democratic principles, but it also undermines Jewish interests. 71% of the Israeli Jewish public maintain that the Chief Rabbinate's and the rabbinical courts' monopoly over marriage and divorce distances Jews from Judaism.

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