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The Chief Rabbinate versus the Jewish People

The Chief Rabbinate versus the Jewish People
By Bambi Shleg  |  29/04/2010
The implantation of a halakhic-religious body into the legal-religious governmental framework, as is the state of affairs in Israel, generates no small number of challenges and difficulties. The Chief Rabbinate is a governmental authority. Its authority derives from the law, rather from the halakha or Torah, as many te...

Violence does not constitute grounds for a divorce
By Batya Kahana-Dror  |  29/04/2010
Over the past few decades, the issue of the status of women in Israel's rabbinical courts has become one of the most important areas in which Jewish values are being subjected to the test of their compatibility with democratic principles. The revolution in human rights seems to have passed by the country's ra...

Isn't it time?
By Rabbi Meir Azari  |  29/04/2010
I would like to take this opportunity to turn to the Orthodox rabbis who understand what is happening in the world. Isn't it time we amended this situation? Hasn’t the time come for a real dialogue between you and the non-Orthodox denominations of Judaism? Meir Azari, the rabbi of the Reform Beit Daniel synagogue ...

Conversion on the dance floor - A weekly report by an Israeli in Berlin
By Amit Epstein  |  29/04/2010
In the last week I've been unpacking the boxes I've left in a storage room at my grandmother's flat in Giv'ataim. Seven years they have been stored there, during this period I did not open even one of those many boxes, where my whole life until the day I moved out of Israel waited for my return.
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A Letter from London – Don’t despair, education can work
By Antony Lerman  |  29/04/2010
There were two memorable teachers at the Orthodox synagogue cheder I attended three times a week after school and on Sunday mornings from age 4 to 13: a fierce German rabbi who meted out discipline by punching us on the upper arm as we sat at our desks; and the kindly Mrs Miller who insisted that God stopped the rain f...

Blog - the Alarming 15.6 Percent
By Agata Peleszuk  |  29/04/2010
In the latest presidential elections in Austria the incumbent president Heinz Fischer remained on his post for another six years. Receiving nearly 80 percent of votes, Fischer defeated a far-right candidate Barbara Rosenkranz who was left out with 15.6 percent. Ambitious right wingers naturally expected much more, thou...

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