Religion and State in Israel - June 12, 2014 (Section 1)

Religion and State in Israel

June 12, 2014 (Section 1) (see also Section 2)

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Editor – Joel Katz

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VIDEO: A Jewish State of Mine

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Yair Lapid Calls for Recognition of Non-Orthodox Judaism 

http://www.tabletmag.com/

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PRESIDENT-ELECT REUVEN RIVLIN

President-elect Rivlin: Will you now respect our Reform movement?

http://www.haaretz.com/

Do you still think Reform Jews are idolators?

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/

Eight Things Learned by Watching Israel’s Ugly Presidential Race

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

Amidst praise for Rivlin, Diaspora Jews harbor doubts

http://www.jpost.com/

Reuven Rivlin Raises Hackles With Derision of Reform and Conservative Judaism

http://forward.com/

Reuven Rivlin, Israeli presidential front-runner, champions pluralism in politics but not Judaism

http://www.jta.org/

Presidential visions

http://www.jpost.com/

The ‘extra soul’ of Israeli democracy

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/

By Reuven Rivlin

Reuven Rivlin, Israeli presidential front-runner, champions pluralism in politics but not Judaism

http://www.jta.org/

Rivlin owes nothing to the ultra-Orthodox - except his victory

http://www.haaretz.com/

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MARRIAGE/CIVIL UNIONS/CIVIL MARRIAGE

Tzipi Livni officiates at gay wedding, expresses regret that it's only symbolic in Israel 

http://www.haaretz.com/

Help end the Orthodox Monopoly on Marriage in Israel

http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/

A Love Boat for Israelis? Anat Hoffman seeks cruise ship for extraterritorial weddings

http://www.haaretz.com/

Opinion: JFNA Should Not Advocate For Civil Marriage in Israel

http://www.cross-currents.com/

Who would you be allowed to marry in Israel today?

http://www.haaretz.com/

Why interfaith marriage is on the rise in Israel - and why it's a problem

http://www.haaretz.com/

Israeli Rabbinate Should Learn From Shavuot Heroine

http://forward.com/blogs/forward-thinking/

How Israel tramples on the stranger

http://www.haaretz.com/

The real reason intermarriage is bad for the Jews

http://www.haaretz.com/

How Many Israelis Would Gladly Intermarry? Quite a Few…

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

Inter-ministerial committee established to deal with bill on divorce refusal

http://www.jpost.com/

Lapidism - New-Old Faith reinvented by Yair Lapid

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/

It's Time To Destigmatize Mamzers. Here's How.

http://forward.com/blogs/forward-thinking/

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CONVERSION

Supreme Court questions state's stance on citizenship for non-Orthodox converts

http://www.jpost.com/

Sides on conversion bill closer to agreement, vote

http://www.jpost.com/

Rabbi Druckman asked to find compromise on conversion bill feud between Stern and Ben-Dahan

http://www.jpost.com/

Israel rejects Africans' request to convert to Judaism

http://www.ynetnews.com/

The Inquisition is alive and well in Israel 

http://www.haaretz.com/

If you’re a convert, you must be careful of your appearance, clothing and sex life, of all your actions and beliefs, all the time, because the State of Israel is waiting to catch you red-handed.

Former chief rabbi candidate says ‘political influence’ in chief rabbinate preventing progress on conversion law.

http://www.jpost.com/

‘Assimilation is here’ says Tzohar chairman Rabbi Stav

Tzav Giyur: A Coalition Promoting Conversion in Israel

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

“One day I found out I wasn’t a Jew”

http://ots.org.il/

Religious organizations join forces to fight for accessible conversion in Israel

http://www.bmj.org.il/

Tzav Giyur: The Conversion Crisis

http://www.bmj.org.il/

By Professor Benjamin Ish-Shalom

AUDIO Interview with Michael Freund: Managing the lost and found of the Jewish People 

http://tlv1.fm/

Bnei Menashe Children Celebrate Their First Shavuot in Israel

http://www.jewishpress.com/

Loving the Convert

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/

By Rabbi Eliezer Melamed 

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NON-ORTHODOX JUDAISM

Finance Minister Yair Lapid: Israel cannot be the only western country without religious freedom

http://hiddush.org/

Opinion: I'm No One's 'Heretic'

http://blogs.forward.com/forward-thinking/

Opinion: Healing our abused Jewish soul

http://www.jpost.com/

By Rabbi Menachem Creditor

It is time for Masorti Judaism to fight for the Jewish dignity denied to us since the inception of the State of Israel.

Re-dreaming Jerusalem - The Unorthodox Vision of Rabbi Tamar Elad-Appelbaum

http://www.cjvoices.org/

Opinion: Power belongs to the people, and not the politicians

http://www.jewishvoicesnj.org/

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ALIYAH/ISRAEL-DIASPORA RELATIONS/JEWISH AGENCY

US Jewish leaders criticize Israel's plan for private corporation to oversee European Aliya

http://www.jpost.com/

The JAFI Aliyah Saga, cont’d

http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/

Cabinet to vote on $29 million plan to attract European Jews to Israel

http://www.haaretz.com/

Gov’t Establishes Independent Company for European Aliyah

http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/

Jewish Agency to get new competition 

http://www.jpost.com/

Ukrainian Chief Rabbi skeptical of government aliyah plan

http://www.jpost.com/

Government approves joint initiative with world Jewry

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Israel's cabinet approves $18m increase in Diaspora initiative

http://www.haaretz.com/

Approval of Diaspora initiative highlights changing Israeli attitudes

http://www.jpost.com/

The Strange Reality of Israel-Diaspora Relations

http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/

Diaspora to Israel: We Need You To Change

http://forward.com/

Are Diaspora Jews a bunch of wimps?

http://www.haaretz.com/

Dramatic rise of French Birthright participants expected this summer

http://www.jpost.com/

Dramatic rise of French Birthright participants expected this summer

http://www.haaretz.com/

Adelson crony to fill key policy-making role at Birthright

http://www.haaretz.com/

Just A Thought: On the lack of aliya

http://www.jpost.com/

In Israel, plans to close immigrant center stir integration concerns

http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-israel-ethiopians-20140606-story.html

JNF agrees reluctantly to limited transparency

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.597288

Comptroller: JNF unfit for 21st century:

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

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Religion and State in Israel

June 12, 2014 (Section 1) (see also Section 2)

Editor – Joel Katz

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

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Religion and State in Israel - June 12, 2014 (Section 2)

Religion and State in Israel

June 12, 2014 (Section 2) (see also Section 1)

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Editor – Joel Katz

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RABBINATE/RABBINICAL COURTS/RABBINICAL COUNCIL

Ministerial committee okays bill insuring women’s equal representation

http://www.jpost.com/

Nepotism and tribal wars still hold court at rabbinical judges panel

http://www.haaretz.com/

Regional rabbinical court candidates disqualified due to family ties

http://www.jpost.com/

Rabbinical court puts up obstacles for religious mother seeking to convert her adopted son

http://www.jpost.com/

Bill to ban rabbis charging money for weddings passes first reading

http://www.jpost.com/

Bill creating a single chief rabbi advances in Knesset

http://www.jpost.com/

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JEWISH AND DEMOCRATIC STATE

Israeli ministers to consider watered-down 'Jewish state law’ 

http://www.haaretz.com/

Livni to oversee final version of 'Jewish State law'

http://www.haaretz.com/

Editorial: Want Israel to be a Jewish state? Then oppose 'Jewish state' bill

http://www.haaretz.com/

A move away from democracy

http://www.haaretz.com/

'The nation-state is increasingly losing its relevance'

http://www.haaretz.com/

Ministerial committee to vote on contentious bill defining Israel as Jewish state

http://www.jpost.com/

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EDUCATION

Allegations of racism surface in Israel’s ultra-Orthodox schools

http://www.al-monitor.com/

AUDIO Interview with Shahar Ilan, Hiddush on Supreme Court decision on yeshiva student stipends

http://tlv1.fm/

(Advance to 32:50 minute mark)

Government Funding For Overseas Haredi Yeshiva Students Formally Restored – With A Catch

http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/

Darwin enters Israeli schools, but humans left out

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Evolution of education: Middle schools in Israel to begin teaching Darwin's theory

http://www.jpost.com/

Evolution theory to be added to Israeli school curriculum

http://www.israelhayom.com/

Evolution of education: Middle schools in Israel to begin teaching Darwin's theory

http://www.haaretz.com/

CARTOON: Compromise: Evolution will be taught without monkeys

http://www.haaretz.com/

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GENDER-SEGREGATION

Ultra-Orthodox request gender-segregated university study

http://www.al-monitor.com/

Government Orders Hospitals and HMOs To Stop Illegally Gender-Segregating And Illegally Enforcing Haredi Modesty Demands

http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/

MK Yifat Kariv describes Israel's gender wars

http://www.al-monitor.com/

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HAREDI SOCIETY

Gafni to meet with Lapid on positive discrimination for Haredim 

http://www.jpost.com/

Israel Aims to Draw Ultra-Orthodox Jews into Tech Boom 

http://europe.wsj.com/

Opinion: Walking to the End

http://www.cross-currents.com/

Ultra-Orthodox venue in Jerusalem offers gender-divided elevator

http://www.haaretz.com/

'Those who don't serve in IDF are not my concern'

http://www.israelhayom.com/

A black sheep in the Haredi community

http://www.jpost.com/

Rabbi Yakov Horowitz, an ultra-Orthodox educator in Monsey, New York, tackles sexual abuse and the prevention of home accidents that take a high toll in the community in both the US and Israel.

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SHAVUOT

Netanyahu hosts Bible study circle for Shavuot

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Shavuot, Jerusalem and equal rights

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/

By Judy Lash Balint

Pluralistic Shavuot at Tel Aviv City Hall

http://forward.com/blogs/the-arty-semite/

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GAY/LGBT COMMUNITY

Gay Pride takes center stage on Israel pilgrimages - Tel Aviv Pride 2014

http://www.haaretz.com/

In first, Jewish Agency to march in Tel Aviv Pride Parade

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Gay Orthodox NGO says two-thirds of its Haredi contacts are married

http://www.haaretz.com/

Gay Haredim lead double life, survey shows

http://www.ynetnews.com/

How Many Gay Haredim Are Married to Women?

http://forward.com/blogs/forward-thinking/

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ABORTION

Waking the abortion tiger

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/

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KASHRUT

Rabbinate, Health Ministry in kashrut food fight at central Israeli hospital

http://www.haaretz.com/

Asaf Harofeh Hospital Operating Without Kashrut 

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Health Ministry: Asaf Harofeh has Kashrut Supervision

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

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RELIGION AND SOCIETY

Bridging religious barriers at Gesher

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/

Inclusive Orthodoxy at the Beit Boyer Synagogue in Talpiot, Jerusalem

http://www.haaretz.com/

Former Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef's will is made public

http://www.jpost.com/

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ROLLING STONES CONCERT

Rolling Stones to start Israel show later to enable observant Jews to attend

http://www.jpost.com/

TLV satisfaction for religious Stones fans

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Rolling Stones Concert in Israel Time Changed for Jewish Fans Observing Shavuot

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

Rolling Stones accommodate religious fans, reschedule concert

http://www.haaretz.com/

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SHMITA

State prepares for shmita year

http://www.ynetnews.com/

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MEDICAL

A new era for Torah-based fertility treatment

http://www.jewishjournal.com/

Court orders teen to undergo chemo against rabbi's advice

http://www.israelhayom.com/

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TEMPLE MOUNT

Reporter's notebook: Hate and hope on the Temple Mount 

http://www.jpost.com/

Temple Mount project yields treasure, but unearths conflict

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

What's going on underneath the Temple Mount?

http://www.israelhayom.com/

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CHRISTIANITY

The other in Israel - Orthodox rabbis reckon with Christianity

http://www.christiancentury.org/

Beginning to talk

http://www.christiancentury.org/

An interview with Rabbi David Rosen

Sea of Galilee center to provide reflection space for Christian tourists in northern Israel |

http://ncronline.org/

Church leaders livid over Israel's mistreatment of Iranian, Iraqi delegates

http://www.haaretz.com/

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Religion and State in Israel

June 12, 2014 (Section 2) (see also Section 1)

Editor – Joel Katz

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

All rights reserved.

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