Religion and State in Israel - August 13, 2012

Religion and State in Israel

August 13, 2012

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Editor – Joel Katz

Religion and State in Israel is not affiliated with any organization or movement.

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Beit Shemesh women challenge 'Haredi extremists'

http://www.jpost.com/

VIDEO: Beit Shemesh women challenge 'Haredi extremists'

Women feature in J'lem bus ads for 1st time in years

http://www.jpost.com/

After gradually disappearing, women return to ads on Jerusalem buses

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Coming soon to bus ads in Jerusalem: women

http://www.haaretz.com/

Please return to your seat, unless you're a woman

http://www.israelhayom.com/

Woman forced to sit in back of plane sues El Al

http://www.globes.co.il/

El Al has bumpy week, with cheap tickets snafu; Haredi man seat episode

http://www.jpost.com/

Off-duty female soldier driven off bus by ultra-Orthodox taunts

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

The ultra-Orthodox tighten their grip in Israel

http://www.washingtonpost.com/

Opinion: Why ultra-Orthodox men wearing 'modesty glasses' is a fabulous idea

http://www.haaretz.com/

By Allison Kaplan Sommer

Glasses look to keep 'immodest' women out of sight

http://www.ynetnews.com/

NIF garners $450K from woman campaign

http://www.jta.org/

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Women of the Wall recreate iconic Six Day War image

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Women’s group ‘liberates’ the Western Wall

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Click here for David Rubinger’s PHOTOS

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Opinion: The challenge: To marry in the rabbinate

http://www.jpost.com/

By Rabbi Seth Farber

1 in 5 Israelis gets married abroad

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Supreme Court petition: Does the Rabbinic Court have jurisdiction over questions of sexual intimacy when a couple agrees to a divorce?

http://www.cwj.org.il/

Opinion: No religious freedom in Israel - Israel rightfully demands reversal of German circumcision ban, but it must also address religious freedom violations at home

By Yizhar Hess, executive director and CEO of the Masorti Movement in Israel

http://www.ynetnews.com/

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Religious Services Ministry "not interested" in US State Dept. religious freedom report

http://www.jpost.com/

Opinion: Waiting for the National Religious camp on (Haredi) 'Torah v'Avoda'

http://blogs.jpost.com/

By Rabbi Eric Yoffie

Opinion: The Rabbinical Court – an entity of its own

http://www.jpost.com/

By Atara Kenigsberg, Executive Director of the Rackman Center at The Faculty of law, Bar-Ilan University

Jerusalem Rabbinic Court allegedly ignored testimony on pedophile rapist

http://www.haaretz.com/

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Schools' secular-religious integration to begin next year

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Matriculation eligibility rate reveals gloomy picture

http://www.ynetnews.com/

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IDF rejects claims it has been trying to trick Haredim into army service

http://www.haaretz.com/

'Failed gov't system prevented Tal Law replacement'

http://www.jpost.com/

Council of Torah Sages urges no Haredi draft

http://www.jpost.com/

Haredi IDF unit records highest single-day enlistment in its history

http://www.israelhayom.com/

Are yeshiva students exempt from serving in the army

http://www.jpost.com/

Opinion: Healing the ultra-Orthodox work ethic

http://www.israelhayom.com/

By David M. Weinberg

Opinion: Haredim and the IDF: Crisis or opportunity

http://www.juf.org/

By Michael Novick, Executive Director for Strategic Development at the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

Will drafting Ultra-Orthodox Jews solve Israel’s military malaise?

http://www.wbez.org/

AUDIO interview: Yaakov Katz, military affairs and defense correspondent for The Jerusalem Post

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Opinion: The quiet Haredi revolution

By David Zoldan

Significant changes are taking place in Haredi society as younger members claim the right to choose how to live their lives and seek to build bridges beyond the community.

http://www.haaretz.com/

Haredi radio host fired after calling religious Zionism 'cancer'

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Haredi radio rabbi fired over 'heretic' remark

http://www.jpost.com/

Opinion: Israelis who work will pay more — to fund day care for Haredim

Don't be fooled / The government spent us into this crisis

See “Social justice” [last paragraph]

http://www.haaretz.com/

By Nehemia Strasler

Livni to CNN: Netanyahu sold Israel to Haredim

http://www.ynetnews.com/

A new wave of conservatism

The ultra-Orthodox community is warming to the idea of vacationing, but its women are increasingly bound by strict codes of modesty, even on separate beaches.

http://www.haaretz.com/

Haredi male employment up 28 percent

http://www.haaretz.com/

Haredi sector sees continued rise in employment

http://www.jpost.com/

Documentary follows Hassidic couple on cruise

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Haredim may get emergency SMS to ‘kosher’ phones

http://www.jpost.com/

Anonymous Pamphlets Underline Haredi Splits

http://blogs.forward.com/

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Israel Pediatric Association calls to end blood-sucking ritual during circumcision

http://www.haaretz.com/

Mohels protest restriction on 'suction' during circumcision

http://www.ynetnews.com/

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Sustainable development and Jewish law come into play in Israel's modern necropolises

http://www.haaretz.com/

Family of dead haredi exhumes body, moves grave

http://www.jpost.com/

Haredim spar over construction, grave desecration

http://www.jpost.com/

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Haredi MK's back municipal tax exemption also for mosques, churches

http://www.ynetnews.com/

A rabbi, a priest and an imam walk into a bar...

http://www.jpost.com/

Time Magazine focuses on haredi, secular 'battle for J'lem'

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Opinion: Livni’s Haredi chutzpah

http://www.israelhayom.com/

By David M. Weinberg

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Government watchdog claims some Israeli nonprofits used for money laundering

http://www.haaretz.com/

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Never mind the Bible, it’s the sanity of the Talmud you need to understand the world and yourself - Interview with Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Opinion: In Search of a New "Posek haDor"

http://www.jewishideas.org/

By Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo, David Cardozo Institute in Jerusalem

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Soldiers' parents: Kahane supporter lectures our kids

http://www.ynetnews.com/

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Israel’s Pork Problem

What a change to one of the most controversial laws in Israeli history could mean for the country’s Christian Arabs.

http://www.slate.com/

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Reform leader seeks to ‘go beyond denominations’

http://www.jns.org/

Interview with Rabbi David Ellenson, PhD, president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR), the Reform movement’s seminary

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Is Rabbi Heschel relevant to Israelis today?

http://www.jewishjournal.com/

Shmuel Rosner interviews author and lecturer Dror Bondi

Israeli scholar overhauls Hebrew Bible to correct errors, for first time in 500 years

http://www.washingtonpost.com/

Israeli scholar completes mission to 'fix' Bible

http://www.ynetnews.com/

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Court: Con men tried to seduce, blackmail NY rabbi

http://www.jpost.com/

Man walks 30km on Shabbat to propose to girlfriend

http://www.ynetnews.com/

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Study at Hebrew U. - without the Hebrew

http://www.haaretz.com/

Change of scenery: From San Francisco to Northern Israel

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

'Bar mitzvah' anniversary of Birthright Israel

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/

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Knesset bill calls for Jewish prayer times on Temple Mount

http://www.jpost.com/

Police bar Bnei Akiva demo near Dome of the Rock

http://www.jpost.com/

J'lem police: 'Temple Mount is in our hands' – incitement

http://www.ynetnews.com/

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Groundbreaking Women’s Study Group Celebrates Completion of Entire Talmud

http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/

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Religion and State in Israel

August 13, 2012

Editor – Joel Katz

Religion and State in Israel is not affiliated with any organization or movement.

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