Religion and State in Israel - June 25, 2012

Religion and State in Israel
June 25, 2012
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Editor – Joel Katz
Religion and State in Israel is not affiliated with any organization or movement.

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Jerusalem police detain woman at Western Wall for wearing prayer shawl 'incorrectly'
http://www.haaretz.com/

Why Are Israeli Police Stopping Jewish Women from Praying?

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/

Woman detained at Kotel for wearing tallit

http://www.jpost.com/

VIDEO: Women Of the Wall Rosh Hodesh Tamuz: WOW Supporter detained by police

PHOTOS: Women of the Wall confronted by police on first of Tamuz - Jerusalem

http://www.demotix.com/

Open society shut down at the Western Wall

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/

Praying in Israel

http://www.interfaithfamily.com/

VIDEO: WOW Rosh Hodesh Tamuz: Detainment, Police Station and Explanation, June 2012

The Sivan Situation: by WOW Intern Gaby Mervis

http://womenofthewall.org.il/

A victory of principle

http://www.jpost.com/

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Rabbi Ovadia Yosef signs petition against funding of non-Orthodox rabbis

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Chief rabbis urges Orthodox leaders: Don't let Israel recognize Reform, Conservative rabbis

http://www.haaretz.com/

Chief Rabbi Amar: Stop recognizing of non-Orthodox rabbis

http://www.jpost.com/

See also: translation Chief Rabbi Amar’s letter

“NO TIME FOR SILENCE” A Letter Addressed to all Rabbis in Every Part of the Country, May God be With Them

http://www.rabbinicalassembly.org/

See also: original Chief Rabbi Amar letter http://www.rabbinicalassembly.org/

Chief Rabbi Yonah Metzger comes to Paramus, New Jersey

http://jstandard.com/

Jewish Federations Condemn Reported Statement from Rabbi Shlomo Amar

http://www.jewishfederations.org/

US Federations slam chief rabbi’s criticism of funding for non-Orthodox rabbis

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

A Crack in the Dam

http://iengage.org.il/

Why I Don’t Want the Israeli Government to Consider Me a Rabbi

http://www.jewcy.com/

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Israel’s Freedom Riders

http://www.tabletmag.com/

Film festival posters depicting a drawing of a woman vandalized in Jerusalem

http://www.haaretz.com/

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'Haredi schools need to meet minimum standards'

http://www.jpost.com/

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No alternative to unity

http://www.jpost.com/

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Anna Sverzhinsky’s personal account: Reform conversion in FSU and Aliyah

http://wupj.org/

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VIDEO: Bnei Menashe kids singing in India

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Chevra Kadisha to compensate woman for funeral

http://www.ynetnews.com/

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The Jewish Agency and the Blackberry: Two Peas in a Pod?

http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/

Promote aliya now!

http://www.jpost.com/

The Jewish Agency Board of Governors Live from the Assembly: The Jewish Peoples Studio

http://www.jewishagency.org/

Diaspora continuity

http://www.jpost.com/

Jewish leaders discuss the challenge of being Jewish in the Diaspora

http://www.haaretz.com/

What do Israelis want from Diaspora Jews? EVERYTHING

http://www.jewishjournal.com/

See also: Tables here and here.

http://www.jewishjournal.com/

Immigration to Israel from the establishment of the State in 1948 until 2010

http://www1.cbs.gov.il/

Maryland mom of rising Israeli political star to make aliya

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Jewish Agency’s Global Jewish Forum to Explore ‘Being a Free People in Our Land’

http://www.sfgate.com/

Under the Lens: Israel-Diaspora Relations

http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/

Straddling The World: Israeli and American Jewry

http://jerusalemjournal.israhost.co.il/

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A JTS Pashkevil

http://menachemmendel.net/

A tiny drop in a vast bucket

http://www.jpost.com/

The thinking man vs. the theocrat

http://www.haaretz.com/

Religion and state cannot be bedfellows

http://www.haaretz.com/

For the Love of Israel

http://www.thedailybeast.com/

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Haredi growth absent in talk on Jewish future

http://www.jpost.com/

The Haredi World Wide Web

http://zeek.forward.com/

Three ultra-Orthodox men arrested for vandalizing Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial

http://www.haaretz.com/

Beit Shemesh: Woman attacked for dressing 'immodestly'

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Haredi extremists stone female driver in Beit Shemesh

http://www.jpost.com/

J'lem counter-protesters douse haredim with water

http://www.jpost.com/

New haredi twist to Beit Shemesh supermarkets war

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

A man who remembered when Hasidim waved the Israeli flag

http://www.haaretz.com/

Female soldier harassed by haredim becomes model

http://www.jpost.com/

New leaders take reins of  ‘Yated Ne’eman’

http://www.jpost.com/

Israeli banks eye haredi customers

http://www.ynetnews.com/

VIDEO Haredim in Israel (via Makom)

Haredi woman gives birth during vow of silence, hides newborn under dress

http://www.haaretz.com/

When rabbis are turned into saints

http://www.haaretz.com/

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J'lem: 5,000 protest plans to draft haredim

http://www.jpost.com/

See also: VIDEO - J'lem: 5,000 protest plans to draft haredim

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox protest in Jerusalem against Tal Law replacement

http://www.haaretz.com/

Haredim rally against IDF enlistment

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Yishai: Drafting haredim 'incest, idolatry'

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox protest in Jerusalem against Tal Law replacement

http://www.haaretz.com/

The State, Hellenism & Hate for Torah Jewry

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/

Barak: 50% haredim to IDF, rest to national service

http://www.jpost.com/

Committee: 80% of haredim to join IDF, national service

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Haredi integration ideas connect enlistment, money

http://www.jpost.com/

Advice for the Plessner Committee: Minimize confrontation

http://www.jpost.com/

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Religious battle looming at Mt. Meron: Walkways for kohanim face demolition

http://www.haaretz.com/

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Waqf tells UK student to remove kippa on Temple Mount

http://www.jpost.com/

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May women read from the Torah?

http://www.jpost.com/

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VIDEO: Herzl Museum Presents: The 1st Interactive-Zionist Wall

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Gay pride, but where's your Jewish pride?

http://www.ynetnews.com/

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The Africans in Tel Aviv and Jewish Values

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/

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"Kashrut, strict safety add to high food prices"

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

Agriculture Ministry seeking to move all of Israel's pig farms to country's south

http://www.haaretz.com/

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Archeology Quarter construction begins

http://www.jpost.com/

Great excavations: Israel's Antiquities Authority head won't cave in just yet

http://www.haaretz.com/

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Onward, Christian tourists

http://www.haaretz.com/

Vatican to Palestinians: Stance regarding Israeli occupation not changed

http://www.haaretz.com/

Aramaic classes help Maronites in Israel understand their liturgies

http://www.catholicnews.com/

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Religion and State in Israel
June 25, 2012
Editor – Joel Katz
Religion and State in Israel is not affiliated with any organization or movement.

Religion and State in Israel - June 11 and June 18, 2012

Religion and State in Israel

June 11 and June 18, 2012 

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Editor – Joel Katz

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

Non-Orthodox Jews start making inroads in Israel

http://www.foxnews.com/

Sephardi Chief Rabbi slams funding of non-Orthodox rabbis

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Rabbinate declares 'war' on non-Orthodox rabbis

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Israel's Sephardic Chief Rabbi: 'Terrible damage' wreaked by Conservative and Reform Movements

http://www.haaretz.com/

Margi accuses Court justices of conflict of interest

http://www.jpost.com/

Haredi MK calls Reform, Conservative rabbis 'clowns' in heated Knesset debate

http://www.haaretz.com/

The Rabbi Miri Gold Case Demystified

http://hiddush.org/

Separate Synagogue and State: Funding Conservative and Reform Rabbis Widens Problem

http://forward.com/

More Non-Orthodox Rabbis Seek State Recognition

http://www.thejewishweek.com/

Israel moves to improve religious freedom – for Jews

http://www.csmonitor.com/

A landmark baby step to religious pluralism

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Masorti Rabbis To Join Israel’s Rabbinate

http://jewschool.com/

VIDEO: Reform Rabbi Miri Gold: The First Non-Orthodox Rabbi to be Paid by the State of Israel

http://www.youtube.com/

'Reform rabbis – bridge to Christianity'

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Moshe Katsav, Reform rabbis, and the end of religious monopoly in Israel

http://blogs.jpost.com/

Israel Prize-Winner Disparages Liberal Rabbis

http://www.thejewishweek.com/

Pyrrhic victory for non-Orthodox Judaism

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/

Israel to Put More Liberal Rabbis on State Payroll

http://www.theworld.org/

See also: AUDIO file

A big step for Judaism

http://www.haaretz.com/

Equality at the trough

http://www.neshamah.net/

Creating a steppingstone

http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/

Rejoicing with Miri

http://blogs.rj.org/arza/ 

Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism (IMPJ) Biannual

CARTOON: "Can we deport them to Sudan?"

Haaretz cartoon by Amos Biderman - June 5, 2012

(Shas Interior Minister Eli Yishai, Minister Housing and Construction Ariel Atias; "Rabbi Miri Gold decision" by Attorney General)

http://www.haaretz.com/

‘Finally there’s more than one way to be a rabbi in Israel’

http://www.kcjc.com/

Progress in Israel for the Reform Community

http://blogs.rj.org/

We Light the Lamp of Freedom

http://rhr.org.il/ 

Reform Judaism in Israel Today!

http://www.jewishjournal.com/

VIDEO: Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism (Master ENG)

Winning the battles and losing the war

http://www.ijn.com/

State Recognition for Reform and Conservative Rabbis

http://www.impj.org.il/

The Kotel is for ALL Jews

http://blogs.rj.org/

Israeli rabbinical court rejects conversion by Bnei Brak's most important ultra-Orthodox court

http://www.haaretz.com/

PMO source: We rejected all conversion requests by African migrants in past year

http://www.haaretz.com/

Africans and Former Soviets Dominate 2011 Jewish Conversions in Israel

http://www.algemeiner.com/

An African leader expands his Jewish horizons

http://www.jpost.com/

‘With this ring I thee wed’: The turbulent battle for same-sex marriage in Israel

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Progressives welcome Conservative gay weddings

http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishFeatures/Article.aspx?id=272507

MK: Gay soldiers impair IDF's ability to fight

http://www.haaretz.com/

Bill would annul law requiring parents and adopted kids to share same religion

http://www.haaretz.com/

MK seeks to annul 'same religion' adoption law

http://www.jpost.com/

Adoption and faith

http://www.jpost.com/

End adoption agonies

http://www.haaretz.com/

Women's rights group pushes halachic pre-nup

http://www.jpost.com/

Israel's Chief Rabbinical Council: Women may deliver eulogies on a case-by-case basis

http://www.haaretz.com/

Religious Zionist rabbis to be allowed to perform weddings

http://www.haaretz.com/

Tzohar and Rabbinate in historic agreement

http://www.jpost.com/

Rabbinate eases wedding regulations for Tzohar rabbis

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Orthodox Rabbinate: Business as Usual

http://rabbihammer.wordpress.com/

Judge: Secular father can drive kids on Shabbat

http://www.haaretz.com/

Promoting Haredi IDF service with carrots, sticks

http://www.haaretz.com/

Haredim decry new military draft bill that does not include Arabs

http://www.haaretz.com/

Judge Turkel: Supreme Ct’s decision on Tal Law was ‘too drastic’

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

IDF: Ultra-Orthodox recruits can plug gap in technical units

http://www.haaretz.com/

Gantz: People are tired of being suckers

http://www.ynetnews.com/

IDF: Haredim interested in mixing service, study

http://www.jpost.com/

Ultra-Orthodox population growing too fast to stay idle, Plesner panel told

http://www.haaretz.com/

Ex-PMO chief: Gov't must focus on getting Haredim jobs, not army stints

http://www.haaretz.com/

Arabs leaders: Address inequality before IDF draft

http://www.jpost.com/

‘Camp Sucker’ wagon stops in Efrat

http://www.jpost.com/

IDF to establish three new ultra-Orthodox battalions ahead of new enlistment law

http://www.haaretz.com/

'Additional Nahal Haredi battalion needed'

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Hiddush VP testifies: No partner in ultra-Orthodox leadership

http://hiddush.org/

Atias: 'Embrace" haredi job-seekers, don't incite against

http://www.jpost.com/

The Tal Law and Jewish Law – In Conflict?

http://www.jewishpress.com/

Female reserves officers call for more equal alternative to Tal Law

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Religion and state at the crossroads

http://www.jpost.com/

Benny Begin: Tel Aviv is not a Jewish city

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Israel forms two lines over shopping on the Sabbath

http://www.latimes.com/

200 people ride Meretz's Shabbat buses

http://www.jpost.com/

Religious kibbutz blocks visitors' access on Shabbat

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Cycling National Championships: No entry for observant Jews

http://www.haaretz.com/

Female shoppers asked to 'dress modestly' at Netanya supermarket

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Jewish Agency Partner Unites Beit Shemesh Women

http://news.yahoo.com/ 

Shopping mall guards turn away haredi man

http://www.ynetnews.com/

There is none more seductive than Chabad

http://www.haaretz.com/

VIDEO: Chabad Conference Deals with Modern Age

Ceremony honors Haredi civil service volunteers

http://www.jpost.com/

The Haredi Spring

http://www.israelhayom.com/

Industrial zone for ultra-Orthodox women violates national master plans

http://www.haaretz.com/

Beit Shemesh women fight to buy milk wearing jeans

http://www.haaretz.com/

Haredi supermarket removes 'modesty signs'

http://www.ynetnews.com/

See also: Facebook page (Hebrew)

Israel’s Next Major Social Challenge – Haredi Internal “Aliyah”

http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/

See also MAKOM site and MAKOM document

Unique study shines light on violence against haredi women

http://www.ynetnews.com/

New information reveals most Israeli charities exempt from disclosing donors names are right-wing or ultra-Orthodox

http://www.haaretz.com/

God's people of the books

http://www.haaretz.com/

Haredi girls compete to be entrepreneurs

http://www.jpost.com/

Graffiti is ‘classic anti-Zionist haredi rhetoric’

http://www.jpost.com/

Man accused of spitting at 'immodest' women

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Photos: Haredim renew battle over the Prophets Road,  Jerusalem

http://www.demotix.com/

Haredim try to block street in J'lem; 3 arrested

http://www.jpost.com/

VIDEO: Police believe haredim spray-painted Yad Vashem

Police believe haredim spray-painted Yad Vashem

http://www.jpost.com/

PM: Hard to believe human defaced Yad Vashem

http://www.jpost.com/

Yad Vashem Chairman: Act of vandalism 'crossed red line'

http://www.jpost.com/

Ghetto survivor shocked at Yad Vashem graffiti

http://www.jpost.com/ 

Anti-Holocaust slogans

http://www.jpost.com/

Jerusalem: Haredim attack elderly Arab

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Health of Haredi leader Rabbi Elyashiv deteriorates to 'very grave'

http://www.haaretz.com/

Taliban Mom Set to be Released on Sunday

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/

See also: VIDEO Taliban Mom sentencing

J'lem: Haredim protest 'Shabbat desecration,' call police 'Nazis'

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Rabbi: Organ donations OK without dead's consent

http://www.jpost.com/

Foreign donor sperm produces more pregnancies than local version, study finds

http://www.haaretz.com/

Going to the mikveh

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Bnei Brak rabbis form plan of action against infiltrators

http://www.ynetnews.com/

State to cover Shas preschools' deficit

http://www.ynetnews.com/

'Benny' to clean up Bnei Brak

http://www.ynetnews.com/

'Hadassah must update its kashrut supervision'

http://www.jpost.com/

Rabbinate: No Stamp of Kashrut for Hadassah Hospitals

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

‘Forbes Israel’ ranks Israel’s richest rabbis

http://www.jpost.com/

See also: Forbes Israel (Hebrew)

http://www.forbes.co.il/

Meet Israel’s richest rabbis

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Forbes presents: The richest rabbis in Israel

http://www.haaretz.com/

Rabbi, tycoon, tax evader

http://www.haaretz.com/

Book Review: 'Deri’s Curse' - Exposing the ugly cobwebs of deceit in Israel

http://www.haaretz.com/

Rabbi Yosef's missing chair alarms congregation

http://www.ynetnews.com/

It’s official, Hollywood actor David Arquette can now make a minyan

http://www.haaretz.com/

Record number of religious girls surfing sex sites

http://www.ynetnews.com/

J’lem Museum of Tolerance losing council support

http://www.jpost.com/

Museum of Tolerance ex-architects fight plans to use their design

http://www.haaretz.com/

Young innovators convene in Jerusalem

http://www.haaretz.com/

Birthright aims to be ‘an integral part of the process of becoming a Jewish adult’

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Maryland girl joins IDF, but first has to break it to her parents

http://www.haaretz.com/

Ramat Hasharon NGO adopts Jewish Federation model

http://www.haaretz.com/

See Takdim site (Hebrew)

Nurturing Jewish Peoplehood in the 21st Century - What Should We Do Differently?

http://www.jpeoplehood.org/

Israel's first interfaith center promises new approach to religious study

http://www.haaretz.com/

For Israel's future spies, a mixture of Talmud and Quran

http://www.israelhayom.com/

Arab translation of Talmud includes anti-Israeli messages

http://www.ynetnews.com/

A rabbi who takes care of the needy – and perhaps of himself, too

http://www.haaretz.com/

Anglo candidate Lipman leaves MK Amsalem's party

http://www.jpost.com/

See also: Rabbi Dov Lipman’s statement on Facebook 

Bridging Beit Shemesh: Israeli community activist Dov Lipman

http://www.jewishledger.com/

Introducing a True Leader and Hero

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/

VIDEO: Soon near Tel Aviv: Community Mausoleum Burial

UNESCO report exposes Dome of Rock renovation

http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=273899

See also: UNESCO site

MK Ben-Ari: Jews ‘afraid’ to travel to Mount of Olives

http://www.jpost.com/

Religion and State in Israel

June 11 and June 18, 2012 

Editor – Joel Katz

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