Religion and State in Israel - May 16, 2013

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Religion and State in Israel

May 16, 2013

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Editor – Joel Katz

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

Special edition on Women of the Wall coming soon

Interview with Anat Hoffman: Fighting on holy ground

http://www.jpost.com/

Anat Hoffman:

The bigger problem is that we have a sovereign Jewish state and we’re not clear what our Jewish values are. We’re not clear what Jewish values we have in common. There isn't a more interesting dialogue we can have than what are the Jewish values of the Jewish state.

But Israel has taken the easy route.

It has taken the keys to Judaism and given it to one minority faction in the Jewish world. And the minority faction has done what every minority faction would do. The Reform would have done the same, none of us are immune. That minority faction became corrupt, it became a monopoly and it became more and more extreme. And through this we have injured Orthodoxy and we have contaminated Orthodoxy.

Rabbinate

Push to have more women on panel that selects rabbinic judges

http://www.israelhayom.com/

Knesset C’tee adds women to panel picking rabbinic judges

http://www.jpost.com/

Another Twist on the Chief Rabbinate Election

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/

Rabbi of Samaria Throws Weight behind Rabbi Ariel

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Endorses Rabbis Amar, Ariel

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Opinion: Bennett’s test of leadership

http://www.haaretz.com/

Opinion: Too many chiefs, not enough rabbis

http://www.israelhayom.com/

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Endorses Rabbis Amar, Ariel

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Religious Pluralism

Opinion: Rabbi David Hartman’s Legacy of Pluralism

http://reformjudaismmag.org/

By Rabbi Richard (Rick) Jacobs

VIDEO: Shatil and Religious Pluralism: A heart with many rooms

VIDEO Blog Post: A Religion and State Update from the Knesset

By Rabbi Uri Regev

State, Religion, and Women of the Wall - an Interview with MK Stav Shaffir

http://www.jewishjournal.com/

Conversion

'Conversions of non-Jewish Israelis declining'

http://www.jpost.com/

Ten reasons conversion to Judaism has failed

http://www.haaretz.com/

Conversion in Israel: From Bethlehem to Chelm to Sodom

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

Mikveh

Mikveh and the single girl

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/

By Rabbi Dr. Haviva Ner-David

Don’t ask, don’t tell; - the new mikveh policy

http://www.haaretz.com/

Marriage

Opinion: Not an isolated tragedy - Israel and civil marriage

http://washingtonjewishweek.com/

Rabbi Uri Regev

Hiddush Video Blog: The Global Call for Civil Marriage

VIDEO: Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi: Israel and the Leadership Dilemmas of Jewish Peoplehood

http://www.jhub.org.uk/jdov/

Haredim and the IDF

As the battle for 'equal burden' in IDF service heats up, some warn of drafting Haredim by force

http://www.haaretz.com/

Ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers to be jailed in future

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

IDF Rabbinate creating new, paid positions for ultra-Orthodox recruits

http://www.haaretz.com/

VIDEO: Should Haredim serve in the Israeli army?

Desecrating Judaism in the name of God

http://www.jpost.com/

Land of King David gets a new lease on life: Beit Shemesh and Haredim

http://www.haaretz.com/

Education

Lapid accuses Deri of lying over schools funding

http://www.jpost.com/

Budget of Shas Schools Will Not be Cut

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Lipman is not an ‘apostate,’ he’s just an ‘unintentional sinner’

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

‘Forcing a Core Curriculum is Dangerous’

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Rabbi Lipman vs. Rabbi Feldman on Haredi Education in Israel, Round 1

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/

Audio: MK Rabbi Dov Lipman Responds To Critics Of The Haredi Draft And Secular Education

http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/

U.S.-born Knesset member denies calling for shutting down yeshivas

http://www.haaretz.com/

Ner Israel Rosh Yeshiva: Yesh Atid MK Rabbi Dov Lipman ‘Wicked’

http://www.jewishpress.com/

HaRav Aharon Feldman, shlita, Apologizes to MK Dov Lipman (Audio)

http://baltimorejewishlife.com/

Hesder Yeshiva head calls on Bayit Yehudi to oppose cuts

http://www.jpost.com/

Naftali Bennett Brings New Start For Israel's National Religious Party

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

Gender segregation

Editorial: Illegal gender exclusion

http://www.haaretz.com/

Op-Ed: The Attorney General's By-laws: Malice Towards Hareidim

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Burial societies: Treasury's spin a joke, public will pay tax on graves

http://www.haaretz.com/

Opinion: A politician’s vision: a Torah for all Jews - MK Ruth Calderon

http://www.njjewishnews.com/

Shas supporters threaten MK Shaked's life

http://www.jpost.com/

Israel's Shas, Right-Wing Kingmaker Party, Takes Sharp Turn to Left

http://forward.com/

Western Wall and Temple Mount

The short and overcrowded history of women at the Western wall

http://www.haaretz.com/

Prayers, notes and controversy: How a wall became the Western Wall

http://www.haaretz.com/

Opinion: How we lost the Western Wall too

http://www.haaretz.com/

By Israel Harel

Police Tell Activist Haivri He's on Temple Blacklist

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

VIDEO: Jewish Activist: I'm on the "Temple Mount Blacklist"

Opinion: A Temple is on the way

http://www.haaretz.com/

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Editor – Joel Katz

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

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