Religion and State in Israel - June 20, 2013 and June 27, 2013 (Section 1)

Religion and State in Israel

June 20, 2013 and June 27, 2013 (Section 1) (see also Special Rabbinate edition – Section 2)

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Editor – Joel Katz

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

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Supreme Court decision: Tel Aviv Shabbat openings

'Tel Aviv must enforce Shabbat supermarket closings'

http://www.jpost.com/

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the Tel Aviv Municipality must impose stronger penalties on businesses that operate on Shabbat, which will allow secular owners of small shops to take the day off.

Tel Aviv ordered to ensure businesses are closed on Shabbat

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

MK Horowitz: TA sees small businesses as cash cow

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Supreme Court bans Saturday shopping in Tel Aviv

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

Court orders Tel Aviv municipality to close stores on Shabbat - or change the law

http://www.haaretz.com/

Court's Tel Aviv Shabbat ruling upset a delicate status quo

http://www.haaretz.com/

Editorial: Wanted: a secular Tel Aviv

http://www.haaretz.com/

Tel Aviv city hall weighs changing laws to let shops remain open on Saturdays

http://www.haaretz.com/

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Gender segregation

Integrating Haredim Into Society By Segregating Classes?

http://www.thejewishweek.com/

Plan to offer gender segregated studies at Hebrew U sparks outcry among faculty

http://www.haaretz.com/

Opinion: No to gender segregation in higher education

http://www.haaretz.com/

Rabbi Rick Jacobs speaks out against gender segregation in Israel

http://www.haaretz.com/

Judaism – The Problem or Solution for Women’s Equality?

http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/

Time for Israel To Change Stance Toward Jewish Women

http://forward.com/

See also: Opinion: Israel must grant equality to women

http://www.jta.org/

Israel's Health Ministry to HMOs: Stop gender segregation at ultra-Orthodox clinics

http://www.haaretz.com/

Streisand, on tour of Israel, slams ultra-Orthodox treatment of women

http://www.haaretz.com/

Judaism – The Problem or Solution for Women’s Equality?

http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/

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Agunot

Agunah Summit Revisits Plan To Create Liberal Religious Courts

http://www.thejewishweek.com/

Seeking Justice For Agunot

http://www.thejewishweek.com/

Report and Comments about the Conference on Qinyan and Qiddushin at the Rackman Center, Bar Ilan University

http://www.jofa.org/Rackman_Report

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Daylight Savings Time

Cabinet okays extension of Daylight Savings Time

http://www.jpost.com/

Gov't extends Daylight Savings Time

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Cabinet approves extended Daylight Savings

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

Praying for daylight saving time: Amendment to allow workers to arrive late in order to pray at end of DST

http://www.jpost.com/

Religious workers to arrive late to work in order to pray at end of DST

http://www.jpost.com/

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Education

Opinion: Core curriculum is key, minus the political circus

http://www.jpost.com/

Talmud studies to be offered to girls too

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Opinion: The famous 'Jerusalem mix' applies only to pita, not to preschools

http://www.haaretz.com/

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Recognition of non-Orthodox streams ‘in progress’

http://www.jpost.com/

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Constitutional statutes

New bill would make Declaration of Independence a Basic Law

http://www.israelhayom.com/

Coalition parties submit opposing bills defining Israel as Jewish State

http://www.jpost.com/

Yesh Atid bill: Israel should be Jewish by law

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Basic Law: Israel — Nation-State of the Jewish People

http://www.molad.org/

Lawmakers unveil bill seeking to bolster Israel's Jewish identity

http://www.haaretz.com/

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Arab community and IDF service

Israeli court overturns decision penalizing Catholic woman for refusing to convert

http://www.haaretz.com/

Priest under fire for touting Arab national service

http://www.jpost.com/

Israeli Defense Ministry Fights Ouster of Pro-IDF Christian Arab Leader

http://www.algemeiner.com/

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Haredim

VIDEO: Yair Lapid Appeals to Ultra-Orthodox: We Need You

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A Jewish State: The Challenge of Haredim

http://iengage.org.il/

Lapid: Haredim joining Israel's workforce will create burst of economic growth

http://www.haaretz.com/

Opinion: When the ultra-Orthodox advocate religious freedom

http://www.haaretz.com/

Knesset speaker Edelstein admits he failed to prevent 'anti-Haredi’ economic decrees

http://www.haaretz.com/

Israel Makes a Free-Market Move (Haredim and the economy)

http://www.cnbc.com/

Student expelled for 'doubting faith'

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Opinion: The Haredi ‘state within a state’

http://www.jpost.com/

Haredi leaders accuse Fischer of racism

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

Jonathan Rosenblum’s Hit Piece on Dov Lipman and the RCA

http://haemtza.blogspot.co.il/

Opinion: Time to tell the truth

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/

By Dov Lipman

Rabbi charged with soliciting aggravated assault

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Police arrest Elad Mayor on corruption charges

http://www.jpost.com/

When Haredim saved Jerusalem, despite the rabbis

http://www.jpost.com/

Opinion: Buying Haredi: A Win-Win

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/

At a Carmiel high-tech firm, a female Haredi CEO leads by example

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Assailant of Haredi newspaper editor convicted

http://www.jpost.com/

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Jerusalem mall and Haredim

Rabbis impose boycott over modesty at Jerusalem mall

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

Ultra-Orthodox Jews shun Jerusalem's supposedly 'modest' shopping mall

http://www.haaretz.com/

Jerusalem neighborhood becomes flashpoint for religious conflict

http://www.haaretz.com/

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Haredim and the IDF

Could Divisive New Israeli Military-Draft Laws Lead to an Ultra-Orthodox Intifada?

http://www.tabletmag.com/

Anti-corruption NGO asks court to revisit petition on Haredi draft

http://www.jpost.com/

The Peri Committee Recommendations: Fanning the Flames of Haredi Extremism

http://www.ynetnews.com/

See also: http://en.idi.org.il/

IDF set to slash kashrut inspectors

http://www.ynetnews.com/

A battle won: Ben-Dahan gets to stay in the Artillery Corps

http://www.jpost.com/

Danon condemns Haredi campaign against soldiers

http://www.jpost.com/

Haredi soldier: My life is in peril due to haredi incitement

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4383511,00.html

IDF to reconsider uniform exemption for haredi soldiers

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Channel 2: Child Refused Entry to School Because Dad Serves in IDF

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/

Draft dodging yeshiva student incarcerated

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Not a Matter of Religion - Arab Muslims volunteer enlist in the IDF

http://www.ynetnews.com/

See also: http://www.idfblog.com/

Torah, Army, and the Haredim

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/

Long skirts and guns - A hassidic woman's tale of service in the IDF

http://www.jpost.com/

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Kashrut

Emunah Petition: Recognize Women Kashrut Supervisors

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Meet your new burekas shapes

http://www.jpost.com/

Rabbinate introduces 'bourekas reform'

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Israel's Rabbis Seek To Bend Pastries To Their Will

http://www.npr.org/

Opinion: Bourekas are Not Burkas

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/

Opinion: Regulating the shape of bourekas makes a joke of Jewish law

http://www.haaretz.com/

Opinion: A Boureka Nightmare

http://blogs.forward.com/

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A Conversation with Ruth Calderon

http://shma.com/

'People should not have Judaism forced on them' - Extensive interview w/ MK Elazar Stern

http://www.israelhayom.com/

Religious winds of changes are blowing in Israel

http://www.cjnews.com/

Talking With Ruth - In classroom and in parliament, MK Calderon aims to 'free and reclaim' Judaism

http://www.thejewishweek.com/editorial-opinion/gary-rosenblatt/

The nation, religion and state – what’s new?

http://www.jpost.com/

VIDEO: The Stream - Israel's religious resistance

Ashdod Chief Rabbi rejects State conversion; postpones wedding

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/

Rabbi Ratzon Arusi, potential Chief Rabbi candidate: Homosexuality "opens the door to violence"

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Israeli Orthodox rabbi speaks out on being gay

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Haredi initiative: Kaddish for Kaniuk

http://www.ynetnews.com/

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Aliyah and Diaspora

Immigrant Absorption Minister Sofa Landver says she wants ‘all Jews here’

http://www.jpost.com/

'World Jewry to upgrade cooperation with gov't'

http://www.jpost.com/

JPPI presents report on global Jewish life

http://www.jpost.com/

New JAFI program strives to mind the Birthright gap

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Survey: Olim feel veteran Israelis see them as foreigners

http://www.israelhayom.com/

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Is ‘Change From Within’ Israel’s New Mantra?

http://www.thejewishweek.com/editorial-opinion/gary-rosenblatt/

Opinion: Spirituality and politics in God's Holy Land

http://blogs.jpost.com/

Rabbi David Stav on Popular Culture– Bein HaZmanim

http://kavvanah.wordpress.com/

Synagogue built on Highway 6

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Guma Aguiar: Fate of Missing Fort Lauderdale Millionaire Still A Mystery One Year Later (PHOTOS)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

See Guma Aguiar VIDEOS here

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Ethiopian aliyah

Mass Ethiopian aliya to end in August

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Ethiopian aliyah to end Aug. 28, Jewish Agency says

http://www.jta.org/

Opinion: What do the dead really want? (Organ donation issue)

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/

Political parties unite to topple Shas in Beit Shemesh

http://www.jpost.com/

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Rabbi whose family conquered world dies

http://www.ynetnews.com/

VIDEO: MKs and Activists Gather to Discuss Deteriorating Situation on Mt. Olives

The Future of Religious Zionism: Integration, Separation, or Leadership?

http://en.idi.org.il/

Far-right Israelis stir tensions over Jerusalem holy site

http://www.reuters.com/

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Religion and State in Israel

June 20, 2013 and June 27, 2013 (Section 1) (see also Special Rabbinate edition – Section 2)

Editor – Joel Katz

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