Freedom of religion in israel
Education Ministry establishes guidelines guaranteeing students' rights to lay tefillin in schools
The directive aimed to establish clear, uniform rules and provide school principals with a guided framework to facilitate the policy's implementation throughout the public school system.
Coast Guard removes environmentalist ship from US 250th anniversary parade over political banners
Shavuot and Mount Sinai: Why modern Jews still wrestle with the Torah
PA drafts constitution, omits Jewish ties to Jerusalem, calls for Sharia legal system
'All those who love Jerusalem must do utmost to prevent religious war in holy city'
Religious leaders of different faiths join Rivlin in condemning violence, terror and incitement.
Center Field: ReligioGoons – the Jewish Taliban – threaten Judaism and Zionism
Israeli ReligioGoons mock Judaism’s ethical traditions. Their verbal violence often encourages physical violence. Their fanaticism demeans Judaism and Zionism.
Wars of the Jews, 21st century edition
A series of challenges to the monopoly of Israel’s state rabbinate may threaten stability of government
Analysis: Unyielding religious establishment threatens to be its own undoing
Slowly but surely, the conflict between democratic rights, and the legally enshrined monopoly of one Jewish denomination over religious life in Israel is being chipped away.
Conversion victory
We recommend that the present government maintain that policy of keeping the question of “Who is a Jew” out of the hands of a bunch of ultra-conservative, politically connected rabbis.
Jerusalem Municipality to fund pluralist and non-Orthodox religious study groups
Despite the haredi opposition, several of the ultra-Orthodox council representatives absented themselves from the vote.
I Need A Favor
Wanted: Spiritual leaders
The Chief Rabbinate must face the reality: Israel is not a religious state. That may be unfortunate, but it is a reality.
A-G: Knesset bill restricting mikve use is unconstitutional
The bill passed a preliminary reading last week and has been put forward by haredi parties in the Knesset.
THINK ABOUT IT: Unjustified hatred
In the Knesset plenum, whose verbatim minutes appear on the Knesset website within an hour of a speech being delivered, MK Bezalel Smotrich branded their religious beliefs and practices “a lie.”