Editor – Joel Katz
Religion and State in Israel is not affiliated with any organization or movement.
INTERNATIONAL
AGUNAH DAY
By Susan Weiss
We need not fear civil marriage
and divorce. We should embrace it as an expression of freedom and democratic
values, as well as a way to ensure the free expression of Jewishness of the
Jewish people.
And should it come to pass that civil marriage is the Law of the Land, We the People of Israel – the Jews, as well as Israeli citizens of all religions – will have “light, and gladness, and joy, and honor” (Esther 8:16).
And should it come to pass that civil marriage is the Law of the Land, We the People of Israel – the Jews, as well as Israeli citizens of all religions – will have “light, and gladness, and joy, and honor” (Esther 8:16).
By Rachel Levmore
In Queen Esther's day, she
gathered all the Jews of Shushan to fast for her. This solid communal support
gave her the strength to bring salvation to the entire community.
In Israel today, the communal support is represented by state institutions. Not only the rabbis are responsible for solutions; the state carries responsibility as well. All must gather with the common purpose of resolving the agunah problem. Resolution for the agunah will come from within that unity of purpose.
In Israel today, the communal support is represented by state institutions. Not only the rabbis are responsible for solutions; the state carries responsibility as well. All must gather with the common purpose of resolving the agunah problem. Resolution for the agunah will come from within that unity of purpose.
By
Shoshanna Jaskoll
We must demand that Orthodox Judaism make herculean efforts to use all Halachic solutions. That a wide range of Rabbanim meet and leave no stone unturned in order to reach a consensus on a wide sweeping and broad answer for current and future agunot. They have brave shoulders to stand on such as Rav Ovadia Yosef z’l who used everything he could to free agunot.
Until a consensus solution is found, we can and must prevent future agunot via the Halachic Prenup.
see also:
Survey shows 96% of all secular Jews and 97% of
all new immigrants support civil unions and/or marriage in Israel.
IDF HAREDI
DRAFT
Menachem Friedman, a member of Bar-Ilan University’s department of sociology and anthropology, believes the Israeli public is more interested in seeing haredim share the economic burden than in joining the army.
“Most Israelis want haredim to go to work and not live in poverty and on welfare,” Freidman said. “The public sees their numbers growing because the average haredi family has more than double the number of children as non-haredim. And every year, as the national budget continues to be cut, more haredim enter the scholar society” of full-time yeshiva study.
Hiddush releases guide to the Equality in Sharing the
Burden Law: Nothing but defects and exemptions
BEIT
SHEMESH MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS
One of the possible electoral sources for Abutbul’s extra votes was the radical, anti-Zionist factions in the city who usually refuse to vote in any elections due to their ideological opposition to the State of Israel. Although the rabbinic leaders of the anti-Zionist community spoke out against voting, there were reports of members of those groups voting throughout the day.
The haredi media also reported late on Tuesday that the leadership of the Toldos Ahron and Dushinsky hassidic groups had permitted women to vote in the election.
RELIGION
AND STATE
Leading American Jewish groups are readying a major campaign against the singular control wielded by the chief rabbinate on matters of personal status in Israel.
As the North American Jewish federation system considers its strategy, a new coalition is also being organized by the American Jewish Committee, which plans to partner with Israeli groups working toward ending the chief rabbinate’s monopoly over marriage.
KOTEL/WESTERN
WALL/WOMEN OF THE WALL
INTERNATIONAL
WOMEN'S DAY
GENDER-SEGREGATION
CONVERSION
See also: http://rabbihammer.wordpress.com/
RELIGIOUS
SERVICES MINISTRY/JEWISH IDENTITY ADMINISTRATION
See also: http://www.haaretz.com/ (forward to 39:00 min. mark)
BRIT
MILAH/CIRCUMCISION
KASHRUT/RITUAL
SLAUGHTER
For now, the Yerushalmim system only works in small, community-based establishments like Cafe Mizrachi, where there is a core of regular, standing customers who are willing to take part in the new project, said Leibowitz.
“Our real challenge is the rabbinate and I think we’ve succeeded; we’ve generated a public conversation,” he said. “I’m a community builder, I’m not a kosher expert. We’re taking the kosher community and the nonkosher community and building trust and partnership.”
“It’s like YES and HOT,” added Mizrachi, referring to the satellite and cable television companies, respectively. “We need competition in this space, because it will make us all stronger.”
ALIYAH/ISRAEL-DIASPORA
RELATIONS
RABBINATE
RELIGION
AND SOCIETY
CHRISTIANITY/VATICAN-ISRAEL
RELATIONS
HAREDI
SOCIETY
see also: http://www.jns.org/
SHABBAT
See also: http://www.ynetnews.com/
TEMPLE
MOUNT
RABBI
PINTO CASE
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