Religion and State in Israel - August 6, 2012

Religion and State in Israel

August 6,2012 

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Editor – Joel Katz

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

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Spurning rabbinate, 20,000 Israelis marry abroad annually

http://www.haaretz.com/

Opinion: Say 'I don't' to the Rabbinate

http://www.israelhayom.com/

By Rabbi Seth Farber

Marriage licensing is hostage to the whims of rabbis, says report

http://www.israelhayom.com/

Are Concubines Now Kosher?

http://blogs.forward.com/

Rabbinical Court allows divorcee to marry Cohen

http://www.ynetnews.com/

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Beit Shemesh: Signs excluding women still up

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Beit Shemesh: The front line in Israel's war of the sexes

http://www.thenational.ae/

Learning Talmud without asking for men's permission

http://www.haaretz.com/

Women celebrate finishing Talmud study marathon

http://www.jpost.com/

VIDEO: On the same page: First ever group of women complete full Talmud study

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Empress Shelly's new clothes

The Labor Party leader is being extra careful not to irk the ultra-Orthodox or right wing.

By Akiva Eldar

http://www.haaretz.com/

'Fear of Shas and UTJ paralyzed the Knesset'

http://www.jpost.com/

Avodah and Avodat Hashem in Israel

http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/

Haredim – American style

http://www.jpost.com/

Haredim arrested for printing fake tickets to Talmud study celebration

http://www.jpost.com/

Pharmacy covers women's pictures on toothbrush box

http://www.ynetnews.com/

State to destroy brand new pathways at Meron grave two months after paying NIS 1.5m to build them

http://www.haaretz.com/

Pray for the doves - Israel needs to solve a problem with its most religious Jews

http://www.economist.com/

Haredi Jews amass in Tel Aviv to celebrate completion of Talmud cycle

http://www.haaretz.com/

Haredi students break barrier, embark on Poland trips

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Affordable housing, the Haredi way

http://www.haaretz.com/

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Barak expects interim increase in Haredi army enlistment

http://www.jpost.com/

Barak: We'll pass legislation to replace Tal Law

http://www.ynetnews.com/

The ‘Tal Law’s real winners and losers

http://www.jpost.com/

Requiem for the Tal Law

http://www.jpost.com/

'IDF conscripts should serve 30 months, not 36'

http://www.jpost.com/

Haredi draft makes equality the rule, not the exception

http://www.jweekly.com/

Tal Law expires, leaving behind legal limbo

http://www.jpost.com/

Barak defers Tal Law decision for a month

http://www.jpost.com/

VIDEO: The Economist: Drafting the God-fearers - Israel's political stalemate

Israel’s parliament is embroiled in a bitter stand-off over whether ultra-Orthodox Jews should continue to be exempt from compulsory military service

http://www.economist.com/

As government fails on universal conscription, civil society springs into action

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Israeli defense minister orders end to sweeping draft exemptions for ultra-Orthodox Jews

http://www.washingtonpost.com/

As Tal Law expires, haredim vow they will not enlist

http://www.israelhayom.com/

Crunch Time for Haredi Draft? Try 2013

http://blogs.forward.com/

Sources in Netanyahu coalition: Bill on Haredi IDF service could take months

http://www.haaretz.com/

Protesters, haredim face off in Bnei Brak

http://www.ynetnews.com/

IDF readies to enlist Haredim

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Tal Tales

http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/

Despite expiration of Tal Law, ultra-Orthodox can finish year of national service with full benefits

http://www.haaretz.com/

A-G: Haredim doing nat'l service to be exempt from IDF

http://www.jpost.com/

‘If we want to live in a ghetto, that’s our right’

http://www.jpost.com/

Haredi IDF veterans find places in the job market

http://www.haaretz.com/

Helping Haredim in Israel Join the Army, Workforce

http://www.ujafedny.org/

"Haredim Want to Enlist"

http://www.israeldefense.com/

Opinion: Tefilas Tal – Last Chance for Israeli Society

http://thescepticblog.wordpress.com/

Coalition collapse won’t stop haredi enlistment

http://www.jpost.com/

Opinion: The End of the Tal Law and Charedi Exemptions from the IDF

http://youandus.theus.org.uk/

By Rabbi Dov Kaplan

Opinion: Women must steer clear of National Service in police

By Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu

http://www.ynetnews.com/

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Women Of the Wall Supporters, Let Our Voices Be Heard

http://womenofthewall.org.il/

Ta’ali: Rosh Hodesh Av Reflections - Women of the Wall

http://womenofthewall.org.il/

By Rabbi Tamara Miller

What they are saying about non-Orthodox Judaism and rabbis: A glossary of terms

http://hiddush.org/

AUDIO: Interview with Anat Hoffman

For the fourth annual Social Justice Lecture of the University of San Francisco Jewish Studies and Social Justice program, the JCCSF hosted Anat Hoffman, Executive Director of the Israel Religious Action Center (IRAC), the legal and advocacy arm of the Reform movement in Israel.

Click here for AUDIO and here

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U.S. Dept. of State International Religious Freedom Report for 2011 - Israel

http://www.state.gov/

Israel’s Fading Democracy

http://www.nytimes.com/

By Avraham Burg

Israeli politics: More Jewish than thou - The political and the religious right are making common cause

http://www.economist.com/

A Jewish spring? There are reasons to hope for a more temperate kind of Jewish nationhood

http://www.economist.com/

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Hillel student organization finds its sabra groove

http://www.haaretz.com/

Fischer says he chose aliya because Israel is 'a very nice place' to live

http://www.haaretz.com/

The New 21st Century Zionism - An Israeli policy group taps the Israeli Diaspora as key catalyst for strengthening Jewish Peoplehood

http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/

See also: The Israeli Diaspora as a Catalyst for Jewish Peoplehood

http://reut-institute.org/

Alive and well: Judaism is enjoying an unexpected revival, says David Landau. But there are deep religious and political divisions, mostly centred on Israel

http://www.economist.com/

Click here for AUDIO

http://www.economist.com/

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Tel Aviv municipality houses private Jewish religious schools, but not Arab, secular ones

http://www.haaretz.com/

Survey finds 30% of Israeli primary school pupils are ultra-Orthodox

Only 57% of kids in Haredi elementary schools study the entire core curriculum for Haredi schools mandated by Education Ministry

http://www.haaretz.com/

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Family suspected in disappearance of ultra-Orthodox rabbi's body from Jerusalem grave

http://www.haaretz.com/

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In Good Faith

Jerusalem’s population is diverse, comprising groups with varying characteristics, including groups that differ from one another in the extent of their religious observance.

http://jiis-jerusalem-eng.blogspot.co.il/

Just the facts: In good faith

http://www.jpost.com/

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The mystery of the skeletons and the fall of Jerusalem

http://www.israelhayom.com/

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Vatican, Israel Spar Over Disputed Last Supper Site

http://www.npr.org/

Christians and Christianity in the Jewish State

http://jiis.org/

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Religion and State in Israel

August 6,2012 

Editor – Joel Katz

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

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