Religion and State in Israel - February 20, 2014

Religion and State in Israel

February 20, 2014

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Editor – Joel Katz

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

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CONVERSION

Knesset moves to decentralize conversion to Judaism

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Interior Ministry refusing to register a woman and her son as Jewish although Rabbinate recognized her conversion

http://www.ynetnews.com/

State wants 2-year-old to 'repeat circumcision'

Interior Ministry forced to ban discrimination against converts moving to Israel

http://www.haaretz.com/

Would Israel Reject Ancient Rabbis as Jews?

http://blogs.forward.com/

Op-ed: Who is a Jew?

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Sharansky: Israel must ease conversion for crypto-Jews

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Op-ed: Conversion: It’s not a cookie-cutter process

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/

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AGUNOT/MARRIAGE

VIDEO: Panel Discussion - What’s Love Got to Do with It? Who Decides Who Can Marry (or Divorce) in the Jewish State?

Click here for VIDEO

See also JFNA GA 2013 website

http://www.generalassembly.org/

Orthodox couples opt for illegal halachic weddings

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Divorce in Israel up by 5.8% in 2013

http://www.jpost.com/

Divorce statistics in Israeli rabbinical courts

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/

Divorce rate among Jewish Israelis rising - National

http://www.haaretz.com/

New law to exert pressure on extreme cases of recalcitrant husbands

http://www.jpost.com/

Op-ed: Getting a ‘get’ - women in chains

http://www.jpost.com/

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RELIGIOUS COUNCILS

'I may become everyone’s enemy’

http://www.haaretz.com/

Religious feminist Nili Ben Gigi Wolf, the only woman serving on Jerusalem's Religious Council, is maneuvering between the city’s secular and ultra-Orthodox populations.

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ALIYAH/ISRAEL-DIASPORA RELATIONS

Bennett to ‘Post’: Gov’t to spend NIS 1b. a year to keep Diaspora Jews Jewish

http://www.jpost.com/

Top Jewish Agency official: Stifling criticism of Israel could backfire

http://www.haaretz.com/

Lieberman: American Jews are facing demographic catastrophe

http://www.haaretz.com/

Liberman calls on Israel to contribute $365m. for Jewish education abroad

http://www.jpost.com/

Leading Jewish researches call Liberman's aliyah predictions unrealistic

http://www.jpost.com/

Jewish future…have your say

http://www.jwire.com.au/

see: http://securingthejewishfuture.ning.com/

Israel Crowdsources 'Jewish Future' Plan Online

http://blogs.forward.com/

Online soapbox aims to foster stronger Diaspora ties

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

How Spain's Sephardic Law Made Israel Look Bad

http://blogs.forward.com/

Project Zug Promotes Jewish Textual Study Using Internet Video Technology

http://forward.com/

Op-ed: Do American Jews and Israelis have anything to talk about?

http://www.haaretz.com/

Op-ed: Don’t blame secular Israelis for having nothing to talk about with U.S. Jews

http://www.haaretz.com/

Op-ed: Paying for Diaspora Jews won’t save Israel

http://www.haaretz.com/

Naftali Bennett: ‘Semi-citizenship’ for Diaspora Jews?

http://www.jta.org/

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RELIGION AND STATE

Bennett to US Jewish leaders: ‘Change in religious status quo in Israel will take time’

http://www.jpost.com/

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KOTEL/WESTERN WALL/WOMEN OF THE WALL

The message to women at the Western Wall: 'You don’t belong here'

http://www.haaretz.com/

see also: Separate and Unequal at the Western Wall

http://www.amotherinisrael.com/

The Women Behind the Wall

http://www.jwmag.org/

Meet three women who are dedicated to the Women of the Wall and its work to promote religious equality for women in Israel.

Anat Hoffman, Women of the Wall head presents her philosophy and activism

http://ijn.com/

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IDF/HAREDI DRAFT

Analysis of Haredi enlistment bill: A law that contradicts itself

http://www.jpost.com/

Lapid praises approval of Haredi enlistment bill: Zionism is back with pride

http://www.jpost.com/

Knesset committee decides on criminal sanctions for Haredi draft evaders

http://www.jpost.com/

Shaked Committee allows imposing criminal sanctions on Haredi draft dodgers

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Haredi leader calls for mass prayer rally against haredi enlistment law

http://www.jpost.com/

Israeli committee backs bid to criminalize Haredi draft-dodgers

http://www.haaretz.com/

Political shenanigans prevent vote on central IDF enlistment bill clauses

http://www.jpost.com/

Haredi parties threaten to quit Knesset panel on IDF enlistment

http://www.jpost.com/

Op-ed: The ultra-Orthodox draft: a choice between equality and justice

http://www.i24news.tv/

see also: http://hiddush.org/

Op-Ed: When Rav Kook Met Moshe Dayan About Yeshivas and IDF

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Why the IDF 'equal burden' bill has nothing to do with equality

http://www.haaretz.com/

Charedi battle to stay out of the IDF is ripping Israel apart

http://www.thejc.com/

Haredi IDF conscription bill: Trouble up ahead

http://www.jpost.com/

Op-ed: Immoral laws turn Israel into Sodom

http://www.haaretz.com/

Why the IDF 'equal burden' bill has nothing to do with equality

http://www.haaretz.com/

Ultra-Orthodox Jews Protest Pending Israeli Draft

http://www.nytimes.com/

IDF Chief Rabbinate Using High Tech to Identify Bodies

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/

VIDEO: Defenders of the Negev: Ultra-Orthodox Jews in the IDF

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Defenders of the Negev: Ultra-Orthodox Jews in the IDF

http://www.idfblog.com/

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KASHRUT/RITUAL SLAUGHTER

Chief Rabbi Lau: No Problem With Female Kashrut Supervisors

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Denmark outlaws kosher slaughter; Chief Rabbi Lau’s call

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Deputy Minister calls Danish slaughter ban 'anti-Semitic'

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Chief Rabbi Lau slams Denmark's decision to ban kosher slaughter

http://www.ynetnews.com/

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SHERUT LEUMI

Piron: More assistant caregivers from national, civil service to be assigned to pre-schools

http://www.jpost.com/

Education minister Piron vows to make 1,200 young women doing national service preschool aides

http://www.haaretz.com/

Editorial: Sherut Leumi volunteers cannot be an alternative to salaried workers in preschools

http://www.haaretz.com/

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RELIGION AND SOCIETY

A testing of hypocrisy

http://www.israelhayom.com/

Eviatar Banai’s journey to wholeness

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/

Beit Shemesh’s Magen tackles sexual abuse one case at a time
http://www.jns.org/

Top Secret Revealed: Mossad's Rabbi Now On Call for Agents

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Baruch Dayan HaEmet: Rabbi Meir Schuster

http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/

Chabadniks moved by heroic IDF officer

http://www.ynetnews.com/

MK Basel Ghattas (Balad) trying to enlist Pope to keep Arab Christians out of IDF

http://www.haaretz.com/

For progressive-minded Jews, a new take on the classic Book of Esther

http://www.haaretz.com/

Circassians protest in Tel Aviv against Sochi Olympics

http://www.haaretz.com/

Rabbi Pinto’s aide gave affidavit detailing bribes taken by then-senior cop

http://www.haaretz.com/

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HAREDI SOCIETY

Let The Rebbe Call Her Rebel: Former Jewish Home party candidate Racheli Ibenboim sits down for a chat with Tuvia Tenenbom

http://forward.com/

Everything He Wanted To Know About Sex Among the Orthodox

Bank chief blames slowdown on ultra-Orthodox, Arabs

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Bank of Israel head warns haredim could drag economy backward

http://www.israelhayom.com/

Jerusalem court rejects [Haredi] parents' bid to remove sick infant from life support

http://www.jpost.com/

On the bus from Tzfat…

http://makomisrael.org/blog/

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BEIT SHEMESH MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

‘Listen to the Rabbis – Vote Eli Cohen’

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Op-ed: Who Moved Abutbul's Cheese?

http://tzedek-tzedek.blogspot.co.il/

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RABBINATE

Op-ed: Regime Change, Realpolitik And The Rabbanut

http://www.thejewishweek.com/

Op-ed: Rabbi Weiss Outside The Pale

http://www.thejewishweek.com/

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RELIGIOUS SITES

Op-ed: Time to reclaim Rachel's Tomb

http://www.israelhayom.com/

Praying at the grave of the Rebbe of Zvhil in a hidden corner of Jerusalem

http://www.jpost.com/

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TEMPLE MOUNT

Intellectuals deny association with Temple Mount pressure group

http://www.haaretz.com/

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Religion and State in Israel

February 20, 2014

Editor – Joel Katz

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

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