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Utah Weddings - Potential Breakthrough

Utah Weddings - Potential Breakthrough

01/08/2022 22:52

In a precedent-setting decision, the Lod District Court ruled earlier this month that civil marriages performed via Zoom under foreign auspices for couples in Israel will be inscribed in Israel’s Population Registry.

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Sukkot 2016: Prof. Pinchas Shiffman

Sukkot 2016: Prof. Pinchas Shiffman

21/10/2016 15:36

Professor Pinchas Shiffman writes, "The problem facing stringent religious Judaism is whether to accept a person who lives among us and truly wants to be a Jew, but does intend to be religious. This person's rejection reinforces the split between Jews according to religion and Jews according to nationality."

Sukkot 2016: Smadar Dekel Naim, Esq.

Sukkot 2016: Smadar Dekel Naim, Esq.

21/10/2016 15:27

Smadar Dekel Naim, Esq. writes, "There is no reason whatsoever to be party to this religious coercion, especially at this most precious, family-oriented moment, and in the most personal of matters. Why should we hold non-egalitarian ceremonies, with rabbis who don't identify with our ways of life? Many of whom actually despise us?"

Sukkot 2016: Shira Ben Sasson-Furstenberg

Sukkot 2016: Shira Ben Sasson-Furstenberg

21/10/2016 15:11

Shira Ben Sasson-Furstenberg writes, "I don't want to be a Torah observant woman that is a guest in Israel's Jewish arena because she is not a man. It is expected that she will not participate, that she will remain behind the mehitza, at the back of the bus."

Israeli religious court goes off the deep end

Israeli religious court goes off the deep end

13/07/2016 16:37

Why would a rabbinic court in the world’s only Jewish state do something that would blatantly turn off most of the world’s Jews?

A Missed Opportunity to Support Secular Life in Israel

A Missed Opportunity to Support Secular Life in Israel

06/05/2016 13:44

The rabbinate sees itself as waging a culture war, and it has been winning. Since the state’s founding rabbinic power thwarts the development of a secular conception of citizenship. Hiddush polled Israeli Jews and found that 71% support the freedom to marry and divorce independent of the Orthodox rabbinate.

Israeli Left Must Internalize That ultra-Orthodox Parties Are Not Partners

Israeli Left Must Internalize That ultra-Orthodox Parties Are Not Partners

Shahar Ilan 16/03/2016 12:40

​ How is it that the left-wing and center opposition factions hardly deal with issues of state and religion? Is the opposition again deluding itself that the ultra-Orthodox parties will reward it by forming a government with it?

Rabbi John Rosove: The New Israeli Government and Ultra-Orthodox Parties

Rabbi John Rosove: The New Israeli Government and Ultra-Orthodox Parties

06/05/2015 12:33

As he strives to form a government, Prime Minister Netanyahu is making deals with small parties in exchange for their support.

Rabbi Elli Fischer: Not All Orthodox Rabbis Oppose Civil Marriage In Israel

Rabbi Elli Fischer: Not All Orthodox Rabbis Oppose Civil Marriage In Israel

01/07/2014 23:24

Freedom of marriage in Israel is an issue for anyone who believes in the future of Israel's Jewish and democratic identity.

Join Hiddush in celebrating the Festival of Freedom!

Join Hiddush in celebrating the Festival of Freedom!

13/04/2014 13:43

Hiddush is pleased to offer our friends and followers the 2014 Passover Supplement. This year, we renew the call for freedom of marriage and divorce in Israel for Israelis and all world Jewry!

Susie Gelman: After Pew, do we really need to argue over who is a Jew?

Susie Gelman: After Pew, do we really need to argue over who is a Jew?

23/02/2014 11:54

The former President of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington and North American Co-Chair of the 2013 General Assembly writes about the recent controversy over MK David Rotem's discriminatory remarks about Reform Judaism.

Rabbi Mark Levin: Citizen or Consumer?

Rabbi Mark Levin: Citizen or Consumer?

09/01/2014 10:56

Rabbi Mark Levin of Congregation Beth Torah in Overland Park, Kansas shares his 5772/2002 Rosh Hashanah drasha about the obligation of American Jewry to take a stake in Israeli affairs- specifically regarding religion and state.

Rabbi Lisa Hochberg-Miller: What American Jews Can Do for Israeli Pluralism

Rabbi Lisa Hochberg-Miller: What American Jews Can Do for Israeli Pluralism

25/12/2013 14:07

Rabbi Hochberg-Miller, from Temple Beth Torah in Ventura, CA writes about the story of Sara and Tzachi, a couple from Israel who had to leave their country to marry only because of Sarah's Conservative conversion.

Rabbi David Golinkin: Why the State of Israel should abolish the Chief Rabbinate

Rabbi David Golinkin: Why the State of Israel should abolish the Chief Rabbinate

25/11/2013 11:07

Rabbi David Golinkin explains why the Chief Rabbinate should be abolished.

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