Religion and State in Israel - November 14, 2013

Religion and State in Israel

November 14, 2013

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Editor – Joel Katz

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

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Rabbinate

Op-ed: Ending the Chief Rabbinate monopoly

http://www.jpost.com/

By Dov S. Zackheim and Steven Bayme, AJC

The Chief Rabbinate is rapidly losing its constituency, as few look to it for religious leadership and legitimation. 

The current governing coalition, consisting of secular and national religious parties – if it has the will to do so, and if it had the full support of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu – could easily break the monopoly of the Chief Rabbinate over personal status issues.

MK Stern: Chief Rabbinate Dismantling Itself

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Fight over Chief Rabbinate’s attitude toward American Orthodox rabbis reaches Knesset

http://www.jpost.com/

Respect all Jewish streams, Rabbi Stav says after Knesset blow-up

http://www.jta.org/

'Great Challenges' remain in Diaspora-rabbinate relations, says RCA

http://www.jpost.com/

Knesset to debate the Chief Rabbinate’s policy on Diaspora rabbis

http://www.jpost.com/

Rabbinate's discrimination of Orthodox rabbis abroad prompts emergency Knesset meeting

http://www.haaretz.com/

U.S. Jewish leaders warn MKs about Orthodox hegemony

http://www.haaretz.com/

Religious Zionist rabbis, Chief Rabbinate in showdown over Jewish marriage

http://www.jpost.com/

List of acceptable Diaspora rabbis does not exist, Chief Rabbinate says

http://www.jta.org/

Chief Rabbinate denies listing acceptable Diaspora rabbis

http://www.haaretz.com/

US rabbis: Rabbinate won't recognize us

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Israeli law could land rabbis in jail for flouting Chief Rabbinate

http://www.jta.org/

Alan Dershowitz backs Rabbi Avi Weiss in Chief Rabbinate spat

http://www.jpost.com/

Alan Dershowitz petitions Peres on behalf of U.S. rabbi 'shamed' by Israeli Rabbinate

http://www.haaretz.com/

So you think you are Jewish enough for an Israeli wedding? Prove it

http://www.haaretz.com/

Livni, Bennett bill: President Rabbinical Court of Appeals chosen from Rabbinical Court judges, not from Chief Rabbis

http://www.haaretz.com/

Supreme Court Petition for New Chief Rabbinate Council Elections

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/

Unified Chief Rabbi law gathers momentum

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Livni and Bennett propose new law: One Chief Rabbi for Israel

http://www.israelhayom.com/

Livni, Bennett propose bill to do away with separate Ashkenazi and Sephardi Chief Rabbis

http://www.haaretz.com/

Chief rabbi speaks out against change in marriage registration zones

http://www.jpost.com/

New Chief Rabbi opposes making marriage registration easier

http://www.israelhayom.com/

Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attacks Tzohar Law: Bad for Rabbinate

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Dep. Minister Ben Dahan seeks to introduce disciplinary procedures for municipal city rabbis

http://www.jpost.com/

Religion Meets Politics as New Chief Rabbinate Council Sworn In

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Rabbi Simcha Kook: Tzohar Bill - More Illegitimate Children?

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Chief Rabbinate: Coordinate bills on Religion and State with us

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Supreme Court Addresses Jerusalem Chief Rabbi Race

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/

Chief Rabbi Avraham Yosef Wants to Revoke Rabbi David Stav’s Dayanus

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/

Tzohar Founder Attacking Rabbinate Proposal to Revoke his Ordination

http://www.jewishpress.com/

Op-Ed: Rejoinder To Rabbi Avi Weiss:Retain Halakhic Standards

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Rabbinic Treaty: Israel Chief Rabbinate Leads Jewish World

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Op-Ed: Israeli Press: Marriage in the Jewish State

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

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Marriage

Op-ed: Israel’s marriage laws are discriminatory

http://www.jpost.com/

Does Israel's marriage reform mean the wedding fixers are out of work?

http://www.haaretz.com/

Op-ed: Marriage reform law could land bride, groom and rabbi in jail for two years

http://www.haaretz.com/

Op-ed: Judaism is for everyone

http://www.israelhayom.com/

Civil Marriage in Israel Is Cause That Unites American Jewish Federations

http://forward.com/

Editorial: Israel must allow civil unions for all

http://www.haaretz.com/

Israeli Attorney Suggests Common-Law Marriage As an Act of Civil Disobedience

http://www.thedailybeast.com/

Analysis | One law for all || Israel's civil union bill must apply to everybody, not just same-sex couples

http://www.haaretz.com/

Israel's Justice Ministry promoting bill that would recognize same-sex couples

http://www.haaretz.com/

Will Yair Lapid torpedo Labor's gay-marriage bill?

http://www.haaretz.com/

Habayit Hayehudi: Yes to civil union, but not for gay couples

http://www.haaretz.com/

Rabbi Binyamin Lau: Israel Needs Civil Marriages

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Justice Ministry pushes law recognizing same-sex civil unions

http://www.israelhayom.com/

Will Yair Lapid torpedo Labor's gay-marriage bill?

http://www.haaretz.com/

Jewish Home MK: Time to Break Alliance with Yesh Atid

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

The union forever [see 4th story]

http://www.haaretz.com/

Israel’s new ‘covenantal partnership’ bill would legalize gay marriage

http://www.jewishjournal.com/

Bar-Ilan University Praises New Law Raising Minimum Legal Marriage Age in Israel

http://www.shalomlife.com/

17-year-old wives: Law passed too late for us

http://www.ynetnews.com/

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Religion and State/Religious Pluralism

Masorti's Fight for Religious Pluralism - Interview with Yizhar Hess, head of the Conservative movement in Israel

http://www.thejewishweek.com/

Op-ed: Chief Rabbis in the Knesset: What if Israel copied Britain’s approach to religion and state?

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/

'Israelis tired of the alliance between religion and politics, "says Rabbi Uri Regev [Google translation]

http://oglobo.globo.com/

Absence of Orthodox frees lawmakers to liberalise Israel

http://www.thejc.com/

Interview with MK Eliezer Stern discusses the Conversion law, hesder yeshivas, and Religious Zionism

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

VIDEO: From Brazil to Barak: A global update on religious pluralism

http://www.hiddush.org/

Fight for religious pluralism recurring theme of 2013 Federations confab

http://www.jta.org/

Lapid, Yachimovich urge more religious pluralism

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

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Adoption

Interests of child trump religion in new Israeli adoption bill

http://www.haaretz.com/

Bill to let secular parents adopt non-Jewish children passes reading

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

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Israel-Diaspora Relations

Most Israelis think future dependent on American Jewry

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Is there a 'Paradigm shift' in Diaspora’s relationship with Israel?

http://www.haaretz.com/

Government seeks ‘paradigm shift’ in Israel-Diaspora relations

http://www.jpost.com/

Israel to ratchet up spending on outreach programs to Jews abroad

http://www.haaretz.com/

In speech to Jewish leaders from abroad, Netanyahu calls for ‘policy of partnership’

http://www.jpost.com/

VIDEO: A conversation with Amichai Lau-Lavie: America, Israel, and the perfect Jewish democracy

Jewish Agency head Sharansky to attend Limmud UK conference

http://www.jpost.com/

Sharansky to attend Limmud for first time

http://www.haaretz.com/

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Conversion

Op-ed: Israel’s Judaism - Circumvention, Not Revolution

http://www.jewishjournal.com/rosnersdomain/

Ministers conditionally approve conversion reform bill

http://www.jpost.com/

Conversion reform bill passed, but rabbis wait in ambush

http://www.israelhayom.com/

Bill authorizing local rabbis to approve conversions passes committee stage

http://www.haaretz.com/

Chief Rabbi Asks MK Stern to Freeze Conversion Bill

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

For the Jews of the Amazon, Israel is a whole different kind of jungle

http://www.haaretz.com/

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Jewish and Democratic State

Op-ed: Yes, Minister Lapid, Israel can be both Jewish and democratic

http://www.jpost.com/

Op-ed: Denying 'Israeli nationality' only perpetuates discrimination

http://972mag.com/

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Education

Israel's Education Minister: Having a rabbi is optional for schools

http://www.haaretz.com/

Editorial: Stop funding ultra-Orthodox ignorance - State shouldn't fund schools that don't teach core subjects such as Hebrew, English and math

http://www.haaretz.com/

Israel's Education Ministry, ultra-Orthodox schools near deal on core curriculum

http://www.haaretz.com/

Supreme Court to State: Why are Hareidi Yeshivot Still Funded?

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

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IDF and Haredim

IDF Rabbinate in 'culture war’ with Education Corps

http://www.haaretz.com/

Religious freedom group: Peyot shaving incidents must be prevented

http://www.jpost.com/

Tension between IDF rabbis about the integration of women [Google translation]

http://www.nrg.co.il/

Hareidi, Secular MKs Threaten 'Culture War'

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Rabbis: Women's Groups Pushing Out Religious Soldiers from IDF

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Dati Leumi Rabbonim: The IDF is Harming Religious

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/

IDF statistics: 1,447 ultra-Orthodox men were drafted into the IDF in 2012

http://www.haaretz.com/

Comic book incites against Haredi troops

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Haredim may not have the option to fulfill their obligations to the state in the National Service, official warns

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

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Kashrut

Kosher permit lost over 'missionary activity'

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Kosher slaughterhouse's sales slump following animal cruelty expose

http://www.haaretz.com/

Chief Rabbi Lau: Zoglovek Gets to Keep its Hashgacha

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/

Chief Rabbi Wants to Yank Kashrus from Nation’s Largest Deli Purveyor

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/

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Kotel/Western Wall

The cynicism of Lieberman's visit to the Kotel

http://www.haaretz.com/

When a Tel Aviv fashion house meets Women of the Wall

http://www.haaretz.com/

Op-ed: Women of the Wall: Israeli Patriots

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/

Op-ed: The tired tricks of demonization (re: WOW)

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/

A Western Wall proposal no one can object to

http://www.haaretz.com/

Hundreds march to Robinson’s Arch during symbolic conclusion to GA

http://www.jpost.com/

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Haredi society

Leading rabbis call for Haredi solidarity ahead of conference in US

http://www.jpost.com/

Op-ed: Jewishness is an inherent part of the state

http://www.israelhayom.com/

Israeli secularists spar with ultra-Orthodox

http://www.aljazeera.com/

Sir Isaac Newton and the New Haredim

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

Roshei Kollel Aren’t Intimidated By Threats

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/

Writer Naomi Ragen agrees to cut sections from novel, resolving long-running plagiarism suit

http://www.haaretz.com/

Morocco expels fugitive Israeli rabbi

http://www.haaretz.com/

Renowned Haredi rabbi prohibits women from driving due to immodesty

http://www.jpost.com/

Haredi Beit Shemesh Mayor Moshe Abutbul: No gays in Beit Shemesh

http://www.ynetnews.com/

MK Adi Kol: Fix discriminatory bus fares against non-haredim

http://www.jpost.com/

Rabbi Chaim Amsellem: Bayit Yehudi Betrayed Me

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/

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Temple Mount

Report: Jordan vetoes Israeli request to allow Jewish prayer on Temple Mount

http://www.jpost.com/

Tensions continue to escalate over prayer rights at Temple Mount

http://www.jpost.com/

Arab MKs denounce Jewish visitation to Temple Mount in Knesset hearing

http://www.jpost.com/

Knesset debate on Jewish prayer on Temple Mount ends in name-calling, walkout

http://www.haaretz.com/

MK Regev: Sovereignty on Temple Mount Trampled-On Recently

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Tensions on Temple Mount || Israel's defense establishment fears increased Jewish activism on Temple Mount may spark widespread conflict

http://www.haaretz.com/

Temple Mount Heritage Foundation’s Yehuda Glick Starts Hunger Strike

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Habayit Hayehudi pushing law to allow Jews to pray on Temple Mount

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Groundbreaking Law to Facilitate Jewish Prayer on Temple Mount

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Founder of educational arm of Temple Institute to teach course on Temple Mount at Ariel University

http://www.haaretz.com/

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Religion and Society

Rabbi Sacks in Israel to promote idea of compatibility of science and religion

http://www.jpost.com/

Jerusalem mayor and secularists clash over city council portfolios

http://www.haaretz.com/

Disabled athlete suspended for allegedly competing on Yom Kippur

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.555612

Senior Catholic Church officials, rabbis and religious scientists hold fascinating interfaith meeting to discuss religious clerics' place in Western world

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Op-ed: The extremist rabbi who reigns unobstructed

http://www.haaretz.com/

Efforts to Stop Attacks on Religious Sites in Jerusalem

http://www.themedialine.org/

Clerics work to stop attacks on religious sites in Jerusalem

http://www.jpost.com/

Certification awarded to first ‘spiritual care provider’ group

http://www.jpost.com/

After crime boss, police arrest rabbi on extortion charges

http://www.ynetnews.com/

National-religious sector: A community in flux

http://www.jpost.com/

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Secular Judaism

Making Jews out of Zionists - A new-old paradigm is taking hold in Israel: a secularism based on a renewed embrace of Judaism

http://mosaicmagazine.com/

Jews forging own paths in margins of mainstream

http://www.haaretz.com/

The film also documents the birth of the Jerusalem Secular Yeshiva as three young men and a few dozen enthusiastic participants paint their building and study together.

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Shabbat

Bennett: We've stepped up enforcing Sabbath as rest day

http://www.haaretz.com/

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Shas

Shas feeds poverty, claims Deputy Minister Ben-Dahan

http://www.jpost.com/

Thousands mark 30 days to Ovadia Yosef’s passing in Jerusalem

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Thousands attend memorial rally for Rabbi Yosef

http://www.jpost.com/

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Religion and State in Israel

November 14, 2013

Editor – Joel Katz

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

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