Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Religion and State in Israel - August 13, 2012

Religion and State in Israel

Editor – Joel Katz
Religion and State in Israel is not affiliated with any organization or movement.











By Allison Kaplan Sommer










By Rabbi Seth Farber



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




By Rabbi Eric Yoffie


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














By David M. Weinberg

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





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.



See “Social justice” [last paragraph]
By Nehemia Strasler


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.


















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By David M. Weinberg







By Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo, David Cardozo Institute in Jerusalem






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



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



Shmuel Rosner interviews author and lecturer Dror Bondi






















Editor – Joel Katz
Religion and State in Israel is not affiliated with any organization or movement.
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