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May 28, 2019, 1:31 AM

President must step down

THE leading rabbis of Australia have shown a lack of respect for the Australian legal system by ignoring a ruling of three courts and instead focusing on one dissenting opinion, writes Joshua Levi. After the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to...

Jun 13, 2018, 1:58 PM

How dare Israel deny a Ugandan Jew citizenship!

Ugandan Jews carrying Torah scrolls (Courtesy of Be’chol Lashon via JTA)

When your community has been practicing Judaism for 100 years, nobody should question your right to make aliyah

Jun 11, 2018, 10:12 AM

That Israel-America Jewish divide

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the American Jewish Committee (AJC) Global Forum in Jerusalem, June 10, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

As the communities move farther apart, a new plan for Jewish unity is needed urgently

Jun 4, 2018, 3:10 PM

Saying goodbye with dignity -- in Scarsdale, NY

Laying Rabbi Aaron Panken to rest was sad and comforting; it also drove home what's missing at Israeli funerals

May 30, 2018, 2:34 PM

When is freedom of religion hypocrisy?

Illustrative, Tefillin. (image via Shutterstock)

Had the airport tefillin-wearer been female, she'd have been taken to task for being a 'provocateur'

Peter Buchsbaum

May 24, 2018, 9:05 AM

Marriage is a basic right, 'til the rabbis pull rank

The entrance to the offices of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, Jerusalem. (Flash90)

A new bill aims to extend the reach of Israel's Rabbinate, the very body creating the problems the law is supposed to fix

May 22, 2018, 2:12 PM

A prying shame: The public scrutiny of get refusers

In May 2017, Zvia Gordetsky launched a hunger strike outside the Knesset after being refused a religious bill of divorce for 17 years (Courtesy)

We need to stop publicly prying into the nitty gritty of people's marriages and divorces in agunah cases

David Barak-Gorodetsky

May 21, 2018, 9:12 PM

Post-secular healing for Israel and the Diaspora

Illustrative: A group of Israeli Reform rabbis, including Rabbi Tamir Nir (center, purple shirt), read from a festive tractate marking Diaspora-Israel Day on November 13, 2016 in Tel Aviv. (Facebook)

When an Orthodox shul you don't go to doesn't cut it anymore

May 21, 2018, 12:36 PM

In search of Israel's opposition

Israeli Arabs and Palestinians demonstrate outside the new US embassy as the ceremony to inaugurate the United States' controversial embassy in Jerusalem began on May 14, 2018. (Ahmad GHARABLI/AFP)

An increasingly tight noose of conformity is threatening democracy in Israel

May 18, 2018, 1:56 PM

Ruth didn't have to convert to 'Orthodox Judaism'

Ruth on the fields of Boaz by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (cropped) (Cc via Wikipedia)

If you really understand Jewish law, you know that legal categories do not address every case in the same way

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