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Jun 21, 2018, 6:05 PM

IDF Draft controversy renews pressure to muzzle the Supreme Court

Drafting Haredi yeshiva students is an ages-old controversy, which is reignited every few years, stirring up the political arena. The new challenge that has emerged, as was the case in the past, has come from the Supreme Court. From...

Mar 28, 2018, 3:28 PM

Israel’s Chief Rabbinate is a threat to Jewish unity and democracy

Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef speaking at the funeral of Rabbi Yehoshua Maman in Jerusalem, Jan. 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

A coercive state rabbinate is a severe threat to democracy, to non-Orthodox Judaism, and also to Modern Orthodoxy

Aug 5, 2015, 6:17 PM

On Reform Judaism — and this time using facts

The suggestion that Israeli Jewry would be stronger with only one brand of Judaism available is uninformed

Oct 5, 2014, 9:25 PM

The Mission of Religious Tolerance

The Cardinal of Orwellia, bishops of “True Path of Faith”, and local Orwellian priests launched a campaign against an annual Jewish prayer gathering organized by the local Jewish ultra-Orthodox outreach organization “Gates of Heaven”, scheduled to take place in...

Jan 21, 2014, 3:59 PM

Rabbi Weiss’s saga: The battle must continue!

It didn’t take long before the Israeli Chief Rabbinate's outrageous discrediting of Rabbi Avi Weiss turned into an international battle. The latest attempt by the Chief Rabbinate to flex its muscles against modern and more egalitarian trends developing in...

Jul 12, 2012, 8:17 AM

US Jews must fight Israel’s policy on religious freedom

The limitation of religious freedom here is government policy, which makes it far more disturbing than the rabbis' most virulent anti-Reform statements

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Rabbi Uri Regev is one of Israel’s most prominent advocates for religious freedom. He currently serves as president of Hiddush- Freedom of Religion for Israel.