Religion and State in Israel - April 25 and May 2, 2013

Religion and State in Israel

April 25 and May 2, 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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VIDEO: Yair Lapid vs. Haredim (Knesset) (English subtitles)

Watch: Lapid vs. Haredim — The Fireworks Begin

http://blogs.forward.com/

Opinion: Is Yair Lapid the savior of religious freedom in Israel?

http://www.haaretz.com/

By Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie

Opinion: The Times They Are A-Changin’

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/

A less spoken about angle: The threat Israel presents to Jewish peoplehood

http://hiddush.org/

Striking a balance on religion and state

http://www.jpost.com/

'Compromise' shouldn't be a dirty word in Israel

http://www.haaretz.com/

Ruth Gavison Responds: Future of religion and state in Israel

http://forum.tikvahfund.org/

The hijacking of Judaism: victims and consequences

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/

Israel: Secularizing, But Not Secular

http://www.momentmag.com/

MK Ruth Calderon’s Speech and the Meaning of Secularization

http://tomerpersicoenglish.wordpress.com/

Can Ruth Calderon Unite Religious And Secular Israelis?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/

VIDEO: MK Ruth Calderon Calls Out Bigotry

The Powerful Debut of Two New Israeli Legislators: Ruth Calderon and Merav Michaeli

http://lilith.org/

VIDEO: Knesset Member Dr. Ruth Calderon Discuss “Building Bridges Among Jews” at JTS

Between State and Synagogue

http://www.cambridge.org/

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CONVERSION
Chopsticks, Pesach and Aliyah

http://blogs.jpost.com/

VIDEO: The Jews of Kaifeng (China) sing HaTikvah

Israel withdraws opposition to allowing aliyah by 'Jews of the Amazon'

http://www.haaretz.com/

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Opinion: Let Shira Play Basketball!

http://blogs.rj.org/

By Anat Hoffman

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MARRIAGE
Opinion: Why Is It so Difficult for Jews to Marry in Israel?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

Rabbi Uri Regev

Knesset c'tee discusses reforms to marriage process

http://www.jpost.com/

Worldwide Freedom of Marriage Project

http://marriage.hiddush.org/

See also: Freedom of Marriage World Map

‘On marriage freedom, Israel as bad as Iran’

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

'Israel like Iran' in freedom of marriage

http://www.ynetnews.com/

'Israel is only Western democracy without freedom of marriage'

http://www.israelhayom.com/

Breakthrough in war against ‘get’-refusers

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Opinion: IRAC Stands for Marriage Equality

http://blogs.rj.org/

By Anat Hoffman

The Marriage Trap: Worse Than You’d Think

http://lilith.org/

Civil marriage in Israel: The time has come

http://www.heritagefl.com/

The Worst Victims of Discrimination: People Who Get Divorced

http://www.reform.org.il/

As France becomes 14th country to approve same-sex marriage, Israel still lags behind

http://www.haaretz.com/

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Rabbi: Don't bury man next to fighter son

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Israel’s Rabbinate upholds metzitzah b’peh

http://blogs.jta.org/

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Israel's secular voters buoyed Bennett's Habayit Hayehudi at polls, study finds

http://www.haaretz.com/

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EDUCATION
Core studies proposal for yeshivas falls short, NGO says

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Needed: Bias in favor of state schools

http://www.haaretz.com/

Treasury: No math, no cash

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Yeshiva heads, teachers slam Lapid's education reform  

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Treasury to cut yeshiva student funding by 30%

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Law to cut funding of haredi schools

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Reforms to education system target haredim

http://www.jpost.com/

Sephardi Haredim complain to court about ‘ghettos’

http://www.jpost.com/

Haredi leaders fight Israeli core curriculum

http://www.jpost.com/

The Future of Civics Education in Israel

http://www.thedailybeast.com/

Supreme Court Hears Case Alleging Discrimination by Ashkenazi Chareidi Schools

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/

In reversal of trend, fewer Haredi pupils in Jerusalem, more secular ones

http://www.haaretz.com/

How to say 'God' in the classroom: Teaching for religious tolerance in Israel

http://www.haaretz.com/

Now out of the government, Israel's ultra-Orthodox parties fumble for a plan

http://www.haaretz.com/

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HAREDIM
Bennett asks Israeli industrialists to help boost Haredi work

http://www.haaretz.com/

Can Yair Lapid dismantle the Haredi welfare state within a state?

http://www.haaretz.com/

Yair Lapid, the Haredim and Israel’s way to normalcy

http://www.haaretz.com/

Among Israel's drastic budget reforms, significant measures on ultra-Orthodox

http://www.haaretz.com/

Deputy Finance Minister calls ultra-Orthodox 'parasites' on the air, and immediately apologizes

http://www.haaretz.com/

Yesh Atid MK ‘parasites’ comment on Haredim evokes outrage

http://www.jpost.com/

Deputy Finance Minister calls haredim parasites, apologizes

http://www.jpost.com/

Lapid deputy dubs haredim 'parasites'

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Lapid proposes cancelling universal child allowances

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

Haredi MKs fire back after Lapid diatribe

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Opinion: A day they fabricated

http://www.haaretz.com/

Opinion: Lapid and the Haredim

http://www.jpost.com/

Lapid to haredi MKs: Israel doesn't belong to you

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Yair Lapid tells ultra-Orthodox lawmakers: You don't own Israel

http://www.haaretz.com/

Lapid blasts haredim in maiden Knesset speech

http://www.jpost.com/

Click here for CARTOON: “I wish he’d go back to Facebook”

http://www.haaretz.com/

Opinion: Haredim have been stealing for years

http://www.ynetnews.com/

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Hiddush Video Blog: Hiddush's impact in the Knesset and media

Is Rise of Jewish Fundamentalism Endangering Israeli Democracy?

http://forward.com/

Book Review: The War Within

http://www.amazon.com/

See also: Piety and Power: The World of Jewish Fundamentalism

http://www.amazon.com/

Culture War in Israel Targets Ultra-Orthodox Jews

http://abcnews.go.com/

A time for haredim, seculars to be united, not divided

http://www.israelhayom.com/

Religious Political Power in Israel Comes to a Halt

http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/

Follow the Talmud or a Jewish Sharia?

http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/

MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni's Revenge

http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/

Haredi leader: Only those who fear God can teach

http://www.jpost.com/

Inspectors find tax evasion rife in ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem neighborhood

http://www.haaretz.com/

Equal share, haredi woman style

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Opinion: House of the rising sun - Beit Shemesh

http://www.israelhayom.com/

Introducing the New, Improved Haredim

http://www.thetower.org/

Leaving the ultra-Orthodox high and dry

http://www.haaretz.com/

Israel's ultra-Orthodox are unequipped for equal opportunity

http://www.haaretz.com/

Comptroller looking into undue influence by ex-Shas minister

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

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IDF DRAFT
Enlistment to IDF haredi program up 25%

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Panel on haredi draft debates granting exemptions

http://www.jpost.com/

Editorial: Scrap the IDF Rabbinate

http://www.haaretz.com/

Moves toward Haredi draft 'work of devil,' Chief Rabbi Amar says

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Chief Rabbi Amar blames 'devil' for plan to enlist ultra-Orthodox

http://www.haaretz.com/

Rabbi: Don't report to draft centers at all

http://www.ynetnews.com/

82% of Yesh Atid voters want immediate ultra-Orthodox draft

http://hiddush.org/

Shas rabbi to PM: Save world of Torah

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Satmar: IDF draft worse than annihilation

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Haredi group: Resist draft with all your soul

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Insanity Averted - For Now

http://www.rationalistjudaism.com/

NY Haredim cancel Manhattan anti-draft rally

http://www.jpost.com/

Poll: 61% support immediate haredi enlistment

http://www.jpost.com/

IDF Chief of Staff Gantz: We need haredim on borders, at bases

http://www.ynetnews.com/

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IDF RABBINATE
IDF Rabbinate shows non-Jews the door in mezuzah book ruling

http://www.haaretz.com/

IDF rabbinate removes controversial 'Laws of Mezuzah' booklet from website

http://www.haaretz.com/

Ex-IDF top rabbi: Publishing discriminatory Jewish ruling was blunder

http://www.haaretz.com/

Beit Hillel rabbis: Judaism Means Loving Non-Jews

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Opinion: Equal rights for gentile troops

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Opinion: Jews and non Jews must have equal civil rights

https://www.facebook.com/

By Rabbi Yehuda Gilad

IDF rabbinate under fire for discrimination

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

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SHAS
Israel's Shas in Leadership Crisis

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

Shas Rabbi Ovadia Yosef: PM told me he will bring Shas into coalition in near future

http://www.israelhayom.com/

Rabbi Yaakov Yosef dies at 66

http://www.ynetnews.com/

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CHIEF RABBINATE
Will Rav Avraham Yosef Enter the Chief Rabbi Race?

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/

Women gain roles in selecting religious leadership

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Can a moderate Chief Rabbi transform the Israeli Rabbinate? Not really

http://www.jta.org/

Rabbinate must adapt or perish, says chief rabbi candidate

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Haredim, Religious Zionists quarrel over identity of next Chief Rabbis

http://www.israelhayom.com/

The Rabbinate race wreckage

http://www.jpost.com/

Editorial: Don’t Waste Israel’s Moment For Change

http://www.thejewishweek.com/

Yisrael Beytenu backs Stav for rabbinate

http://www.jpost.com/

Who says Israel’s chief rabbis are so powerful?

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Livni opposes tailor-made legislation for new chief rabbis

http://www.haaretz.com/

Shas spiritual leader promises Ashkenazi Haredim cooperation on election of Israel's chief rabbi

http://www.haaretz.com/

Druckman tapped to broker choice for chief rabbi

http://www.jpost.com/

Rabbi Israel Lau to join Rabbinate race?

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Habayit Hayehudi struggles to settle on chief rabbi candidate

http://www.israelhayom.com/

The Significance of Rav Stav’s Candidacy

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/

‘Rabbi Ariel unlikely to stand for chief rabbi’

http://www.jpost.com/

Speculation roils chief rabbi race

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Complaint: Are the elections for the Rabbinate being neglected?

http://www.bhol.co.il/

Rabbi Israel Lau to join Rabbinate race?

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Feiglin: Time for a single, non-ethnic chief rabbi

http://www.jpost.com/

Israel needs only one chief rabbi, Likud MK Moshe Feiglin says

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Transforming Israel's Chief Rabbinate

http://www.ajc.org/

Choose a rabbi

http://www.israelhayom.com/

Just How Complicated Can Chief Rabbinate Election Dealings Get?

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/

A Woman Among the Chief Rabbis?

http://blogs.forward.com/

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Police want Haifa’s chief rabbi charged with bribery, fraud

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Rabbi Avraham Chaim Sherman suspected of abuse of power

http://www.jpost.com/

Rabbonim Address Growing ‘Yichus’ Concerns

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/

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Jerusalem yeshiva student arrested after attacking Arabic-speaking detectives

http://www.haaretz.com/

Love in the time of racism: The new, dangerous low in the campaign to stop interracial relationships

http://www.haaretz.com/

Opinion: Netanyahu and the 'goyim’

http://www.haaretz.com/

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TEMPLE MOUNT
MK goes to Temple Mount in protest of Feiglin ban

http://www.jpost.com/

Opinion: They Stab, We Are Arrested for Praying at Temple Mount

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

PM orders police to bar Feiglin from Temple Mount

http://www.israelhayom.com/

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Jerusalem's enthusiasm for demographic report has Haredi residents fuming

http://www.haaretz.com/

While Jerusalem Day is celebrated above ground, archaeological discoveries reveal city’s layers

http://www.jns.org/

Seculars make gains in the tug of war over Jerusalem

http://www.haaretz.com/

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Jerusalem agrees to honor Prof. Yeshayahu Leibowitz after years of strife

http://www.haaretz.com/

J'lem passes street-naming for Leibowitz

Jerusalem to name street after Yeshayahu Leibowitz

After battle, capital to name street for iconoclast Leibowitz

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The Jewish bridegroom who wouldn’t wear a kippa

http://www.haaretz.com/

How Not to Win Friends and Influence People

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

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Rabbi charged for giving drugs to prisoner

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

The New Rosh Hashanah

http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/

N.Y. and Israeli museums to share rare handwritten copy of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah

http://www.haaretz.com/

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Who Needs a Constitution?

http://israelsdocuments.blogspot.co.il/

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After five years in court, Herzliya to get its first non-Orthodox synagogue

http://www.haaretz.com/

Lapid backs equal status for non-Orthodox groups

http://www.jpost.com/

Opinion: Why the Reform Movement is so Unpopular in Israel

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/

Opinion: Why the Reform Movement is so popular in Israel

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/

Dropping everything for Israel

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Natan Sharansky's Kotel Compromise Gives Him New Heft as Liaison to Diaspora

http://forward.com/

Immigrant Absorption Minister Landver rejects call to take aliya control from Jewish Agency

http://www.jpost.com/

Scarlett Johansson is not an Israeli

http://www.haaretz.com/

AJC fires 3 employees at J'lem office

http://www.jpost.com/

Some 80 new immigrants to join IDF

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Jersey girl finds joy in uniform of the IDF

http://njjewishnews.com/

Aliyah Tales: From Saloniki to Tel Aviv

http://voices.jewishagency.org/

The Challenges of Building Pluralistic Jewish Peoplehood: Towards a Different Kind of Pluralism

http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/

Jewish Pluralism Revisited – Rising Above Conflicting Truths

http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/

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Knesset to revisit daylight savings, again

http://www.haaretz.com/

Western Wall rabbi to judge contest seeking Israel's 'most inviting' mikveh

http://www.haaretz.com/

Where is the 'Most Beautiful Mikveh' in Israel?

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

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Israel to allow UNESCO inspections in Jerusalem after Palestinians agree to pull damning resolutions

http://www.haaretz.com/

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Pope Francis accepts Peres' invitation to visit Israel

http://www.haaretz.com/

Int'l Conf: Honoring The Memory of Pope John XXIII - Shoah, Jewish People & Israel

Peres heads to Rome to meet the Pope

http://www.jpost.com/

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Environmentalists converge to discuss keeping paths to God green

http://www.haaretz.com/

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LAG B'OMER
Tsunami of prayers at Rashbi’s tomb

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Scenes of chaos as crowds head to Mount Meron for Lag Ba'omer

http://www.haaretz.com/

Opinion: We Hereby Declare

http://www.jpost.com/

Opinion: I'm a Lag B'Omer Scrooge

http://blogs.forward.com/

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Holocaust Remembrance Day doesn't apply to Haredim, says Shas' Deri

http://www.israelhayom.com/

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CARTOON: "I think I need a second opinion." (Nochi Dankner and Rabbi Yaakov Ifergan) (Back at the X-ray Rabbi's place)

See "Bank Leumi cancels bailout deal for billionaire after outcry" http://ow.ly/khR17

See previous cartoon: http://twitpic.com/arl4tf

Haaretz cartoon by Amos Biderman - April 22, 2013

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Take a cable car to the Western Wall

http://www.timesofisrael.com/take-a-cable-car-to-the-western-wall/

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Clinging to ancient traditions, the last Samaritans keep the faith

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Samaritans celebrate Passover at Mt. Gerizim much like Jews did in ancient times

http://www.haaretz.com/

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Religion and State in Israel

April 25 and May 2, 2013

Editor – Joel Katz

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