https://hiddush.org/subchannel-87-0-Jewish_Home.aspx This is an RSS update from channel Jewish Home on Hiddush website Fri, 01 May 2026 11:33:04 GMT He-il https://hiddush.org/article-23437-0-Messing_with_the_Law_of_Return_again.aspx https://hiddush.org/article-23437-0-Messing_with_the_Law_of_Return_again.aspx Thu, 27 Aug 2020 20:55:00 GMT MK Smotrich's bill seeks to limit the horizons of Judaism and close the gates of conversion to the largest Jewish denominations of the Diaspora https://hiddush.org/article-23351-0-Hiddush_on_the_Knesset_TV_channel.aspx https://hiddush.org/article-23351-0-Hiddush_on_the_Knesset_TV_channel.aspx Thu, 24 Oct 2019 15:27:00 GMT I'd like to share my insights from a panel I participated in today, broadcast on the Knesset TV channel. In the program, a panel of two reacts to the political events of the day. My co-panelist was an Orthodox economist who plays a leadership role in the Jewish Home party. https://hiddush.org/article-22141-0-Hiddush_in_pursuit_of_legal_justice.aspx https://hiddush.org/article-22141-0-Hiddush_in_pursuit_of_legal_justice.aspx Mon, 02 Oct 2017 19:45:00 GMT Hiddush just scored a victory in the Jerusalem District Court in a freedom-of-information case, involving a huge amount of governmental grant monies, exceeding one hundred million NIS, provided to mostly Orthodox religious outreach organizations by multiple governmental agencies https://hiddush.org/article-17113-0-The_State_Comptrollers_2017_report_a_searing_indictment.aspx https://hiddush.org/article-17113-0-The_State_Comptrollers_2017_report_a_searing_indictment.aspx Wed, 17 May 2017 13:34:00 GMT Israel’s 39-chapter annual state Comptroller report, published on Tuesday, May 16, was nothing less than a blistering indictment of the unholy alliance of religion & state in Israel, providing multiple examples of criminality, corruption, and discrimination conducted by government officials in the arena of religion & state. https://hiddush.org/article-17064-0-US_Reform_leadership_meets_with_PM_Netanyahu.aspx https://hiddush.org/article-17064-0-US_Reform_leadership_meets_with_PM_Netanyahu.aspx Wed, 15 Mar 2017 01:24:00 GMT The Prime Minister must either stop the incitement against non-Orthodox Judaism from within his own government or sever his political alliance with those who wage war against world Jewry and block Netanyhu's own public commitment to ensure that all Jews feel at home in Israel. https://hiddush.org/article-17063-0-A_Haredi_Supreme_Court_Judge__What_does_that_really_mean.aspx https://hiddush.org/article-17063-0-A_Haredi_Supreme_Court_Judge__What_does_that_really_mean.aspx Tue, 07 Mar 2017 14:41:00 GMT There is therefore need for further thinking as to the prerequisites for serving in the state’s judicial institutions in general, and the Supreme Court in particular. https://hiddush.org/article-17059-0-Supreme_Court_nominations_threaten_religious_freedom.aspx https://hiddush.org/article-17059-0-Supreme_Court_nominations_threaten_religious_freedom.aspx Mon, 27 Feb 2017 08:43:00 GMT Last week, months of nomination deliberations for four positions that will soon become vacant on Israel's Supreme Court came to an end. Israel's Minister of Justice, Ayelet Shaked, the token secular representative of the Zionist Orthodox Jewish Home party, chaired the nominations committee. https://hiddush.org/article-16959-0-Contradictory_messages_exuding_from_the_State_of_Israel_to_Diaspora_Jewry.aspx https://hiddush.org/article-16959-0-Contradictory_messages_exuding_from_the_State_of_Israel_to_Diaspora_Jewry.aspx Sun, 21 Aug 2016 13:50:00 GMT This week, two reports were published in the media, which directly contradicted Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Education Naftali Bennett's words just last month: "The State of Israel belongs to all the Jews of the world. https://hiddush.org/article-16844-0-Landmark_ruling_to_allow_nonOrthodox_converts_access_to_all_mikva’ot.aspx https://hiddush.org/article-16844-0-Landmark_ruling_to_allow_nonOrthodox_converts_access_to_all_mikva’ot.aspx Tue, 23 Feb 2016 09:01:00 GMT 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. https://hiddush.org/article-16807-0-Religious_politicians_abuse_their_authority.aspx https://hiddush.org/article-16807-0-Religious_politicians_abuse_their_authority.aspx Thu, 28 Jan 2016 09:16:00 GMT The Education Ministry has frozen budgeted funds for non-Orthodox and secular education initiatives. The religious politicians abuse their authority, and pour millions into one-sided brainwashing efforts. It’s time for Israeli and Diaspora leaderships to declare: Judaism, pluralism, Jewish Peoplehood and democracy are too important to be left at the mercy of sectarian interests, https://hiddush.org/article-6674-0-Jewish_Home_Party_exerted_pressure_upon_local_pols_Appoint_our_people.aspx https://hiddush.org/article-6674-0-Jewish_Home_Party_exerted_pressure_upon_local_pols_Appoint_our_people.aspx Mon, 03 Nov 2014 10:54:00 GMT The Knesset Interior Committee held a meeting to investigate accusations that the Jewish Home party led by Religious Services Minister Naftali Bennett exerted undue pressure upon local politicians to grant political favors to Jewish Home Party supporters by appointing them to administrate local religious councils.