Religion and State in Israel: November 21, 2013

Religion and State in Israel

November 21, 2013

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Editor – Joel Katz

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

CIVIL MARRIAGE

Israeli celebs support civil marriage

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

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“Why do I support the civil marriage bill?”

“Because a loving family is the most important thing,” Bar Refaeli.
“Because it doesn’t make sense to fly out of the country to get married,” TV personality Yaron Brovinsky.
“Because I’m a married man and it’s time the state registered that,” Gal Uchovsky, an openly gay journalist, producer, and screenplay writer.

Israeli couples say 'I don't' to Orthodox Jewish weddings

http://www.reuters.com/

RELIGIOUS PLURALISM

Bennett walks fine line between Israel's Orthodox and America's non-Orthodox

http://www.haaretz.com/

Bennett treading carefully on religious reform

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Bennett Reflects New Knesset Approach - Jewish Home party head is Bibi’s point man on Iran deal and religious issues at home

www.thejewiswheek.com/

Reform’s Rick Jacobs hails new openness in Israel to religious pluralism

http://www.jta.org/

Editorial: At GA In Jerusalem, A Push For Pluralism

http://www.thejewishweek.com/

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks on Israel’s Chief Rabbinate

http://www.tabletmag.com/

IDF and HAREDI DRAFT

Yesh Atid MK warns against decriminalizing Haredi draft-dodging

http://www.jpost.com/

Knesset factions lock horns over penalties for draft dodgers

http://www.israelhayom.com/

Knesset panel: Fines preferable to prison for yeshiva students who refuse to serve in IDF

http://www.jpost.com/

Op-ed: Political Impasse: How to Punish Haredi Draft Dodgers

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

Op-ed: A Fine or Do Time?

http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/

Defense Ministry gives full military service exemption to 633 haredim

http://www.jpost.com/

Nahal Haredi wins IDF award for excellence

http://www.jpost.com/

MIKVEH

Yesh Atid MK proposes law to prevent mikve guides interrogating women

http://www.jpost.com/

Troubled waters: Does the Knesset really belong in the mikveh?

http://www.haaretz.com/

Bill: No questioning women at mikveh

http://www.ynetnews.com/

“Rabbi, please, let me immerse in the mikveh alone!”

http://www.myjewishlearning.com/

NON-ORTHODOX MOVEMENTS

Op-ed: Non-Orthodox Jews have yet to reach the Promised Land

http://www.haaretz.com/

RABBINATE

Dep. Minister Ben-Dahan: 'Reform Jews have Gone Too Far'

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Rabbi Stav lashes out at Reform Jews

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Rabbinate signs 'pact' with Diaspora rabbis

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Op-Ed: What are the criteria for blackballing a U.S. rabbi?

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Conversion: An Open Letter to Ronn Torossian

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Op-ed: Reforming Conversion Standards: A Most Dangerous Idea

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Chief Rabbinate Responds to Request for Names of Accepted Rabbonim

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/

Chief Rabbinate Looking for a Grading Service

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/

Will Chief Rabbi Lau Permit Heter Mechira?

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/

Dep. Minister Calls for Unified Standards in Kashrut

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

CHIEF RABBI BILL

Bill for one chief rabbi in Israel approved by Ministerial Committee for Legislation

http://www.jpost.com/

New bill aims to abolish 2 chief rabbis, but only in 2023

http://www.israelhayom.com/

One rabbi to rule them all? || Government backs bill to abolish separate chief rabbis for Ashkenazi, Sephardi Jews

http://www.haaretz.com/

Cabinet shows broad support for a single chief rabbi

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

FORMER CHIEF RABBI METZGER CASE

Police: Metzger pocketed millions of shekels belonging to charities

http://www.israelhayom.com/

CARTOON: Former Chief Rabbi Metzger - “Take that out, make room”

http://www.haaretz.com/

Metzger affair: Rabbi's offenses filmed, recorded

http://www.ynetnews.com/

New details emerge from probe into ex chief rabbi

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Analysis || Selling Judaism by the pound? Metzger's arrest casts harsh light on Israel's rabbinate

http://www.haaretz.com/

Former Chief Rabbi Metzger arrested, again, for alleged corruption

http://www.israelhayom.com/

Former chief rabbi arrested for allegedly stealing millions

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Former chief rabbi Metzger arrested for taking bribe, fraud

http://www.jpost.com/

Israel's former chief rabbi arrested on suspicion of accepting millions in bribes

http://www.haaretz.com/

BURIAL

Yesh Atid MK seeks to make non-religious burial in Israel easier

http://www.jpost.com/

MARRIAGE

Op-ed: Solving the agunah problem means finding the right address

http://www.myjewishlearning.com/

Op-ed: GA: An Elefant Faces Six

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/

Op-ed: Halakhic Marriage and Domestic Partnership

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/

ISRAEL-DIASPORA RELATIONS

Israelis must learn to listen to our American cousins

http://www.jpost.com/

Op-ed: American Jewish leaders only care about themselves

http://www.haaretz.com/

Netanyahu, Jewish Agency Chairman Sharansky Address 3,000 Masa Israel Journey Participants at Ten-Year Celebration in Jerusalem

http://www.prweb.com/

RELIGION and SOCIETY

High Court of Justice to A-G: Why didn’t you indict rabbis for ‘racist’ book?

http://www.jpost.com/

Muslims, Jews find common cause in fight for religious rights

http://www.haaretz.com/

Knesset bill would require all schools to teach Israel is Jewish State

http://www.jpost.com/

Analysis: Protest letter by Haredi, nationalist Orthodox rabbis to Jerusalem Mayor Barkat

http://www.haaretz.com/

Majorca’s master chef returns to the Jewish people

http://www.jpost.com/

Meet the Israeli counselors who look death in the eye

http://www.haaretz.com/

Devotees of Netivot rabbi accused of extortion block roads, demand his release

http://www.haaretz.com/

HAREDI SOCIETY

Initiative bridges gap between religious and secular

http://www.jweekly.com/

State freezes funds for Haredi girls youth group over irregularities

http://www.haaretz.com/

Knesset Knocks Down Law On Hareidi Discrimination

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

KASHRUT

Yad L’Achim Complaint May Lead to Revocation of Kashrus of Jerusalem Café

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/

Rabbinate Battles 'Phony' Unkosher Olive Oils

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Israel Sets Example on Kosher Animal Cruelty

http://blogs.forward.com/

SECULAR JUDAISM

‘Fringes’: Documentary explores different ways to be Jewish

http://www.jpost.com/

Secular Israelis are Studying Judaism by the Thousands – Israel Report XII

http://www.jewishjournal.com/

The Origins of Bina and the Secular Yeshiva

http://repairlabs.org/

TEMPLE MOUNT

Temple Mount: Police at Breaking Point

http://www.jewishpress.com/

4 Girls Arrested for Praying near Temple Mount’s Rachamim Gate

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Att'y Ben-Gvir: Police Freedom of Expression, Movement

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

One Man's Jewish Temple Mount Crusade

http://blogs.forward.com/

Op-ed: Striving for Jewish Freedom and Equality on the Temple Mount

http://www.jewishpress.com/

Jews challenge worship rules at holiest of Jerusalem sites

http://www.washingtonpost.com/

See also: http://www.religionnews.com/

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