Editor –
Joel Katz
Religion and State in Israel is
not affiliated with any organization or movement.
AGUNOT/MARRIAGE/CIVIL
MARRIAGE
The
Jewish Federations of North America, or JFNA, may soon launch an effort that
would include supporting groups in Israel working to limit or end Orthodox
control of personal-status issues such as marriage, divorce, conversion and
burial, The Jewish Week has learned.
Clearly
this is a key, often emotional, issue in this country, where about 85 percent
of the American Jewish community is non-Orthodox; some feel they are looked
upon as second-class Jews by Jerusalem.
But the proposed project, known as iRep — Israel Religious Expressions Platform — while presented as advancing freedom of religious expression, may stir controversy among many observant Jews and those uncomfortable with the notion of diaspora Jewry stepping up its support for critics of Israeli policy, especially through the vehicle of JFNA, its primary consensus organization.
But the proposed project, known as iRep — Israel Religious Expressions Platform — while presented as advancing freedom of religious expression, may stir controversy among many observant Jews and those uncomfortable with the notion of diaspora Jewry stepping up its support for critics of Israeli policy, especially through the vehicle of JFNA, its primary consensus organization.
PRESIDENT ELECTION AND
REFORM MOVEMENT
RELIGION AND STATE
GENDER-SEGREGATION
see document here: http://argovcenter.org/
ALIYAH/ISRAEL-DIASPORA
RELATIONS
Practical, ideological questions hover over big-money project to fortify
Jewish identity.
CONVERSION
KOTEL/WESTERN WALL/WOMEN OF
THE WALL
Think of it as an Olympic Torch for pluralism: A Torah scroll scheduled
to be read by women at the Western Wall, before finding a home at a Reform
congregation in Israel, will make three stops in New Jersey along its journey.
CONSTITUTION/JEWISH AND
DEMOCRATIC STATE
KASHRUT
CHRISTIANITY
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Religion and State in Israel is
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