Religion and State in Israel - September 12, 2013 (Section 1)

Religion and State in Israel

September 12, 2013 (Section 1) (see also Section 2)

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Editor – Joel Katz

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Religious Pluralism

Opinion: Unholy Alliance of Orthodox Judaism and Political Power Harms Israeli Democracy

http://forward.com/

Anat Hoffman: A gadfly on the Wall

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Women of the Wall is the least of Anat Hoffman's achievements

http://www.haaretz.com/

Majority of Israelis support freedom of religion, marriage

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Poll shows support for cuts to haredi sector, skepticism over enlistment law

http://www.jpost.com/

61% of Israelis: Separate State, religion

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Hiddush releases 2013 Religion and State Index; increased support for freedom of marriage and Jewish pluralism

http://hiddush.org/

A rapidly growing number of Israelis support Jewish pluralism and equality in Israel

http://hiddush.org/

VIDEO: Religion and State Index 2013

VIDEO: Shouldering the Civic Burden in Israel Public Opinion

VIDEO: Support for Jewish pluralism is on the rise!

Israel's Seemingly Contradictory Attitude Toward Separating Religion and State

http://www.thedailybeast.com/

Leveling the playing field of religious struggle

http://www.jpost.com/

'Feminists of Zion' Scapegoat Orthodox Jews

http://blogs.forward.com/

VIDEO: Religious Pluralism in Israel - Women of the Wall

VIDEO: An Orthodox Perspective on Religion and State: Rabbi Ariel Picard

VIDEO: Noam Zion: A Heart of Many Rooms - Religious Pluralism

Fight over Jewish pluralism is top story of 5773

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Reform leader: Orthodoxy in Israel jeopardizes Judaism

http://www.ynetnews.com/

MK Ruth Calderon’s Message to Australian Zionists

http://galusaustralis.com/

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Constitutional issues; Jewish and Democratic State

‘PM didn’t approve naming Gavison to draft constitutional provision'

http://www.jpost.com/

Netanyahu irate over Livni's move to draft alternative to Jewish State Law

http://www.haaretz.com/

Prof. Gavison to resolve Israeli 'Jewish-Democratic' issue

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Livni taps Gavison to square the circle of Israel's identity crisis

http://www.israelhayom.com/

Livni appoints professor to resolve issue of Israel's Jewish and democratic identity

http://www.jpost.com/

MK Shelah: 'Jewish and democratic state' an oxymoron

http://www.jpost.com/

Opinion: Scrap the Jewish state law

http://www.haaretz.com/

Opinion: Who’s afraid of Professor Ruth Gavison?

http://www.jpost.com/

Opinion: Jewish and then democratic

http://www.haaretz.com/

Editorial: Herculean task

http://www.jpost.com/

Opinion: ‘Religion and politics’ in Israel: The mythology of Jewish nationalism

http://972mag.com/

Opinion: Defining 'Who is a Jew’

http://www.haaretz.com/

Opinion: Israel Should Allow Freedom of Jewish Faith to All

http://forward.com/

Opinion: The Zionism we really want: A third way to look at the morality of the Jewish nationalist project

http://www.haaretz.com/

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Jewish Identity Administration

Opinion: Israel Can Never Be Too Jewish

http://forward.com/

Livni slams religious hegemony over proposed Jewish identity agency

http://www.haaretz.com/

Lapid Wants Reform Representation on Jewish Identity Administration

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/

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Rabbinical Courts

Fighter for Women's Divorce Rights to Help Choose Dayanim

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Deliberately harsh prison conditions for man who refused wife a divorce

http://www.haaretz.com/

Be happy for the freed aguna or be upset about the revocation of a conversion?

http://lifeinisrael.blogspot.co.il/

See orginal Hebrew article here

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Kashrut

A tiny winery takes on the Rabbinate's kosher monopoly

http://www.haaretz.com/

See also: When Is Kosher Wine Not Called Kosher?

http://www.masorti.org/

New in Jerusalem: Higher level of kashrut

http://www.haaretz.com/

Secular wing of Bayit Yehudi sets up "kosher hotline"

http://www.jpost.com/

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Kotel

Editorial: Respect at the Western Wall

http://www.jpost.com/

As Rosh Hashanah draws nigh, Western Wall gets traditional cleaning

http://www.jpost.com/

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Aliyah and Diaspora

American Jews donate early and often, but usually not to Israel

http://www.haaretz.com/

Study: Jewish Giving Is Strong, But Worries Down The Road

http://www.thejewishweek.com/

U.S. Jewish Giving: Who is Giving What to Whom

http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/

Study reveals the who, what and where of Jewish giving

http://www.jewishjournal.com/

Opinion: American-Jewish-Israeli disconnect

http://www.jpost.com/

Opinion: Time to grapple with the disconnect

http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/

Poll shows young American Jews losing connection to Israel

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Young U.S. Jews feel closer to Israel, studies find

http://www.jewishjournal.com/

Poll: Children Less Connected To Israel, More Jewishly Educated, Than Parents

http://www.thejewishweek.com/

Poll shows young American Jews losing connection to Israel

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Opinion: Don’t Forget the Jews Who are Already Engaged

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

Young U.S. Jews feel closer to Israel, studies find

http://www.haaretz.com/

Opinion: Investing, not donating: Updating how American Jews give to Israel

http://www.haaretz.com/

Socially connected American Jews more likely to donate, says new report

http://www.jpost.com/

Editorial: Dialogue Goes Both Ways - Most Israelis do not grasp the diversity and depth of our community

http://www.thejewishweek.com/

Israeli Knesset members get an education in American Jewry

http://www.jns.org/

Young couple making aliyah wins $10,000

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Jews airlifted from Yemen get the lay of the Holy Land

http://www.haaretz.com/

Opinion: Use tikkun olam to bridge Diaspora-Israel gap

http://www.jta.org/

Opinion: U.S. patronage of Israel: A thing of the past

http://www.haaretz.com/

Opinion: Kvetching aside, U.S. Jews have never had it so good

http://www.haaretz.com/

Branch of Jewish New York in Israel

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Opinion: The Prime Minister’s Plan: Some Suggested Guidelines for Planning

http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/

Israeli Knesset members get an education in American Jewry

http://www.jns.org/

Aliyah organization sending mixed messages to Russian Jews: Come, or stay there

http://www.haaretz.com/

Living Zionism - the next chapter

http://www.jpost.com/

Opinion: Jews in Israel and the Diaspora need to rediscover a sense of direction in 5774

http://www.haaretz.com/

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IDF and Haredi draft

Tensions run high at Knesset during debate on length of IDF Hesder service

http://www.jpost.com/

High Court demands explanation over state's failure to draft haredim

http://www.jpost.com/

High Court demands explanation over delay in Haredi draft

http://www.israelhayom.com/

High Court offers compromise to groups calling for immediate Haredi conscription

http://www.jpost.com/

Opinion: How Can We Draft the Ultra-Orthodox with Consent?

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

VIDEO: Equality in sharing the burden, without equality

Opinion: War between brothers-in-arms

http://www.jpost.com/Jerusalem-Report/

Analysis: The Ultra-Orthodox Draft: Crossing the Third Rubicon

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

The Peri proposal for the Ultra-Orthodox Draft: Equality in Sharing the Burden, without the equality

http://hiddush.org/

Military Police Arrive in Elad & Beit Shemesh To Apprehend Charedi ‘Draft-Dodgers’

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/

No assault charge against Haredim who assaulted police officers

http://www.ynetnews.com/

IDF Chief of Personnel: No Ceremonies Without Women

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/

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Municipal Elections

Analysis || Religious Zionist voters will decide Jerusalem’s mayoral race

http://www.haaretz.com/

Jerusalem neighborhood religious battle focuses on vacant lot

http://www.jpost.com/

Jerusalem's secular revival

http://www.jpost.com/Jerusalem-Report/

See also pdf file here and here

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat Faces Tough Reelection Fight

http://forward.com/

Yerushalmim Party candidates for City Council meet with Anglo residents

http://www.jpost.com/

See Yerushalmim website on pluralism

http://yerushalmim.org.il/

War of the women rages in Jerusalem campaign

http://www.haaretz.com/

Opinion: Beit Shemesh elections

http://www.jpost.com/

The race for mayor of the city of Beit Shemesh is ground zero in the bruising national battle between Shas and Bayit Yehudi chairman Naftali Bennett.

Abutbol: Bennett ‘turning Beit Shemesh into a battlefield’

http://www.jpost.com/

Unique among Haredi parties, Tov holds primary

http://www.jpost.com/

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Rabbi Moti Elon case

Sex Scandal Leads To Star Israeli Rabbi's Fall

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

Washing their dirty prayer shawls in private

http://www.haaretz.com/

Opinion: The Wrong Stuff

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

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Religious Zionism

VIDEO: Zionist Yeshivas: Budget Cut Harms Entire World of Torah

Op-Ed: Holding High the "Flag of Jerusalem"

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Religious Zionism before Rav Kook

http://www.jpost.com/

Fraternal standoff

http://www.haaretz.com/

Feeling persecuted and reviled, Bennett went to Lapid and demanded another NIS 150 million for his yeshivas. Lapid refused. “There’s a cake, so slice it,” he told Bennett. “I am not spending any more money.”

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Shabbat

Tel Aviv municipality to change bylaw so businesses can open on the Sabbath

http://www.haaretz.com/

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Religion and State in Israel

September 12, 2013 (Section1) (see also Section 2)

Editor – Joel Katz

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

All rights reserved. 

Religion and State in Israel - September 12, 2013 (Section 2)

Religion and State in Israel

September 12, 2013 (Section 2) (see also Section 1)

If you are reading in email or RSS feed, please click here to read ONLINE

Editor – Joel Katz

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

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Women, Gender segregation

Group of Beit Shemesh women take on religious extremism

http://www.haaretz.com/

An End to Gender Segregation

http://www.reformjudaism.org/

Not Your Typical Story, Not Your Typical Cover Girl

http://lilith.org/

The modesty police now targeting women wearing 'slutty religious-style' clothing

http://www.haaretz.com/

Opinion: Do The Burqa Women Have It Right?

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/

Appointment of woman to local Religious Council irks MK Gafni

http://www.jpost.com/

Words Drove Hadassa Margolese Away

http://blogs.forward.com/sisterhood-blog/

Second Haredi woman gets threats over political candidacy

http://www.jpost.com/

Forced withdrawal of Haredi woman candidate from Jerusalem’s municipal elections

MK Ruth Calderon sticks up for females in politics

http://www.jpost.com/

See also VIDEO interview (Hebrew)

http://reshet.tv/

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Haredi society

Opinion: The ultra-Orthodox must tackle their extremists

http://www.haaretz.com/

Opinion: No Holds Barred: The extremists among us

http://www.jpost.com/

Ultra-Orthodox media, politicians livid over cuts to yeshiva stipends

http://www.jpost.com/

Cuts to Haredi sector yield mixed results

http://www.jpost.com/

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Rabbinate

Opinion: God’s Gatekeepers: Signs Of Progress On Israel’s Rabbinate

http://www.thejewishweek.com/

Rabbinate opposes marriage liberalization plan, but to no avail

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Chief Rabbinate opposes Bennett's marriage registry reform

http://www.israelhayom.com/

Chief Rabbinate voices opposition to Dep. Min. Ben Dahan on marriage registration

http://www.jpost.com/

Opinion: Fathers & Sons (Chief Rabbinate)

https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/

Tzohar bill delayed by government agreement with haredim over budget

http://www.jpost.com/

Amar comes in for harsh criticism from Ovadia Yosef

http://www.jpost.com/

Can the outgoing Sephardi chief rabbi regain his place at Ovadia Yosef's side?

http://www.haaretz.com/

New chief rabbis sworn in, commit to bringing Am Yisrael together

http://www.ynetnews.com/

It is extremely unusual for a woman to be among the speakers at the inauguration ceremony of the chief rabbis

http://www.jpost.com/

It pays to be a small-town rabbi in Israel

http://www.haaretz.com/

Editorial: Gouging the people in the name of religion

http://www.haaretz.com/

Opinion: A chief rabbi for the good of all Israelis

http://www.jpost.com/

Cost of religious Jewish services in Israel to leap dramatically starting next month

http://www.haaretz.com/

Israeli Politician Stirs Up The Religious-Secular Debate

http://www.npr.org/

Chief rabbis call on public to have children vaccinated

http://www.jpost.com/

Israel Marriage Registration Now Available Online

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Female rabbinical court advocate added to committee for election of rabbinical judges

http://www.jpost.com/

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Education

Israeli religious schools balk at sex education

http://www.jpost.com/

Religious schools balk at sex ed

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Religious Israeli schools censoring human reproduction from textbooks

http://www.haaretz.com/

Analysis || Removal of chapter on reproduction from state religious school books speaks volumes

http://www.haaretz.com/

Israel orders school textbook publishers to remove sex education material

http://www.theguardian.com/

Click here for Cartoon

http://www.haaretz.com/daily-cartoon/1.542653

Finance Minister Lapid and Education Minister Piron help promote gender separation policy in state run religious elementary schools.

Opinion: Yesh Atid's religion of reverse psychology

http://www.haaretz.com/

Israeli group petitions High Court against state-sanctioned gender segregation in schools

http://www.haaretz.com/

300% increase in complaints of discrimination against Sephardic girls

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Two Chassidic Yeshivas Capitulate, Will Teach Core Curriculum

http://www.jewishpress.com/

A Message of Grave Concern from Chinuch Atzmai Leader Rabbi Lazerson

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/

Haredi girls are first to return to school

http://www.jpost.com/

Tekuma rabbis call on Bayit Yehudi to oppose cuts to ‘Torah World’

http://www.jpost.com/

Treasury Commits to 65 Million NIS for Yeshivos

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/

Haredim, Arab communities have lowest matriculation passing rates

http://www.haaretz.com/

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Daylight Saving Time

New Daylight Savings guideline: Religious workers can arrive half hour late

http://www.haaretz.com/

Pray you're not late for work

http://www.israelhayom.com/

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Beit Shemesh - Connecticut on the outskirts of Jerusalem

http://www.haaretz.com/

Am Shalem party leader preparing for death of Shas spiritual mentor Yosef

http://www.jpost.com/

‘Hidden Jews’ of Poland visit Israel

http://www.jpost.com/

'Hidden Jews of Poland' visit Israel

http://www.ynetnews.com/

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Uman

Fewer Hasidim fly to Uman this year

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Pilgrims on way to Uman riot after flight delayed

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Pilgrims leave Uman amid reports of heavy damage to property

http://www.jpost.com/

Hasidim on plane to Uman arrested for unrest

http://www.jta.org/

Cross Defaced in Ukraine Hasidic Pilgrimage City

http://forward.com/

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Haredi society

Peres: Haredi community is a vital factor in Jewish life

http://www.jpost.com/

Temporary premises for Haredi kindergarten in Jerusalem inappropriate

http://www.jpost.com/

Opinion: Israel Must Bring Ultra-Orthodox Into the Fold

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/

Rabbi Shteinman: Yair Lapid – 'Amalek'

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Ultra-Orthodox and Left-Wing Israelis Join Forces in Opposition

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

Will Eda Haredit go for synthetic shtreimel?

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Rabbi Shlomo Pappenheim Says Traditional Shtreimel Fur Hats Desecrate God's Name Due To Animal Cruelty

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

Ultra-Orthodox bigwig calls for synthetic fur hats

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Haredi Leader: Wearing a Shtreimel Is Chilul Hashem

http://www.jewishpress.com/

Dirty Dancing? || Haredi rabbis ban all-female Zumba classes

http://www.haaretz.com/

Move over 'Downton Abbey,' true romance is in Mea Shearim

http://www.haaretz.com/

Love at second glance: Marriage, Haredi style

http://www.haaretz.com/

Haredim combat smoking epidemic

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Top Haredi rabbis decry 'worthless' ultra-Orthodox radicals in Beit Shemesh construction row

http://www.jpost.com/

Feud finally ends in Beit Shemesh; haredim reach agreement

http://www.jpost.com/

Opinion: From now on, wishes for a happy new year need to include the entire spectrum of Israel’s citizens - including Arabs and ultra-Orthodox Jews

http://www.haaretz.com/

Beit Shemesh grave protests resume; 6 haredim wounded

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Head of Jerusalem 'sadistic cult' convicted

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Jerusalem Hasidic cult leader convicted of raping, torturing his six wives

http://www.haaretz.com/

Jerusalem court convicts leader of ‘sadistic cult’

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

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Holidays

Join quorum, get $700 in cash

http://www.ynetnews.com/

                                

Forget Miley: The rage is Rosh Hashanah videos

http://www.haaretz.com/

Mistreating a chicken during kapparot would be a mitzvah through a sin says Lau

http://www.jpost.com/

Chief Rabbi David Lau: Prevent animal suffering

http://www.ynetnews.com/

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New Generation of Jewish Sect Takes Up Struggle to Protect Place in Modern Israel

http://www.nytimes.com/

Hotline lets callers inform on Jewish-Arab couples

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Lehava 'Hotline' to Help Prevent Intermarriage, Assimilation

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Beard-Friendly 'Bardas' Gas Masks Demanded By Israeli Orthodox Jews

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

Thou shalt cover up - in style

http://www.haaretz.com/

A musical secret, hidden away at an Ethiopian convent in Jerusalem

http://www.haaretz.com/

Israeli 'Jewish heritage' TV channel gets green light

http://www.haaretz.com/

Police Chief Calls to Renew his Shiurei Torah

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/

Chief Rabbi: No to Bothersome Airplane Prayers

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Government to infuse NIS 16 m. into east Jerusalem’s City of David park

http://www.jpost.com/

Jerusalem municipality approves budget for East Jerusalem neighborhood

http://www.haaretz.com/

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Temple Mount

Temple Institute to offer Temple Mount tours on Succot

http://www.jpost.com/

See also: Halachic tour of the Temple Mount

http://www.templeinstitute.org/

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Religion and State in Israel

September 12,2013 (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.