Editor –
Joel Katz
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and State in Israel is not
affiliated with any organization or movement.
By Merav
Michaeli
You no
doubt think that this is a religious matter that has no bearing on you. But no.
What constituted a real danger to public safety and hurt others' feelings was
that the four women put on a tallit - the traditional Jewish prayer shawl -
with black stripes. That is to say that what turned their praying into a
criminal act was the fact that they used an item of clothing that is considered
to be for men.
By Abby
Caplin
By Bonnie
Ras
Grass-roots
campaign in Jerusalem reverses some haredi-imposed gender segregation and
discrimination.
See also: Im Tirzu Poster and VIDEOS here, here and here
By Corinne Sauer
Corinne Sauer is the
co-founder and director of the Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies, an
economic policy think tank.
By Yair
Eldan
The writer is a
lecturer and faculty member at both the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem
and in the department of law at Ono Academic College.
If the
rabbinical court judges feel they cannot do their jobs in light of this kind of
interference, they should resign. I am certain we can find other rabbinic
judges who would be happy to take their place.
Many
Israeli rabbis are missing the point of Jewish marriage.
By Rabbi
Aaron Leibowitz
By Barbara
Sofer
As their husbands have
refused to grant these women divorces, their lives have been put on hold for
decades.
By Roni
Shuv
The writer is the editor of the women's supplement of the
Haredi magazine Bakehila.
If the
Council for Higher Education wants to provide more higher education
opportunities for Haredim, it should stop expecting them to adapt to secular
surroundings
By
Menachem Mautner
Prof. Menachem Mautner teaches in the law faculty of Tel Aviv
University.
A critical
approach to yeshiva funding … could create justification for a significant
reduction in the budgets channeled to Haredi yeshivas for adults. This would
require many Haredim to join the job market, and would be an important step in
a proper ordering of relations between the state and the ultra-Orthodox
community. It would also be an important normative statement on the part of the
state.
By Isi
Leibler
It is
therefore the obligation of the Israeli government to set up a coordinating
body with Jewish community leaders – particularly those outside of the United
States – to provide guidance and assistance in this critical deteriorating
arena of Diaspora Jewish life.
By Yoaz
Hendel
Book Review: "Zot
Briti" (This Is My Covenant: Conversion, Secularization, Civil Marriage)
by Shimon Gershon Rosenberg (Shagar), edited by Amnon S. Dukov, Zohar Maor,
Moshe S. Faloch, The Institute for the Advancement of Rabbi Shagar's Writings,
258 pages (in Hebrew)
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