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Liberal American Jews urge US to revoke Smotrich’s visa over Huwara remarks

Two liberal American Jewish groups have called on the US government to revoke Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s visa and prevent him from visiting...

02.03.2023 30

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Softened bill banning Passover ‘hametz’ from hospitals cleared for first reading

After fiery debate, MKs tweak legislation to give hospital directors more control over how to keep leavened goods out during Jewish holiday, rather...

01.03.2023 10

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Reform Judaism head: Critics say US Jews can’t have an opinion, then seek our help

Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the head of the US Union for Reform Judaism, delivered an onstage address at Saturday night’s mass demonstration against the...

26.02.2023 30

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Jewish Agency chief urges US Jewry to speak out on proposed judicial overhaul

Jewish Agency Chairman Doron Almog called on American Jewish leaders to “make your voice heard” in the ongoing, rancorous debate over the...

24.02.2023 50

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Lapid thanks US Jews for criticism of overhaul, backs talks if coalition halts bills

Opposition leader Yair Lapid responded to an open letter sent by the Jewish Federations of North America to him and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

22.02.2023 20

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Reform rabbis assailed as they try to bring Torah scrolls to women at Western Wall

Clashes broke out at the Western Wall on Wednesday morning, including between Knesset members, as hardline Jews blocked and harassed supporters of the...

22.02.2023 60

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Hundreds of ex-submariners urge stop to overhaul ‘before we reach the abyss’

Reservists and veterans of Israel’s submarine fleet came out strongly against the coalition’s planned judicial overhaul on Tuesday, warning in an...

22.02.2023 20

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In break from policy, major US Jewish group decries proposed judicial overhaul

The Jewish Federations of North America warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday against his government’s plan to legislate an...

21.02.2023 30

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Conservative movement: Legal overhaul would ‘eviscerate’ Israeli checks and balances

The international Conservative-Masorti movement on Sunday called on the government to halt its planned judicial overhaul, warning that parts of it...

19.02.2023 20

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Bills to ban hametz, expand powers of rabbinic courts breeze through committee

Two contentious religion-and-state bills were approved by the Ministerial Committee for Legislation on Sunday, one forbidding bringing leavened goods...

19.02.2023 30

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Government tells High Court it still plans to improve Western Wall egalitarian plaza

The government on Thursday told the High Court of Justice that it was still working to fix and improve the egalitarian section of the Western Wall, in...

17.02.2023 10

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As Jewish Israelis lose trust, fewer are marrying through the Rabbinate

Fewer and fewer Jewish Israelis are marrying through the rabbinate, according to new data recently obtained by a religious activist group, which...

16.02.2023 40

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75 Israeli Orthodox leaders call for dialogue on judicial overhaul

Dozens of Orthodox religious leaders on Tuesday called on all political parties to meet and consider President Isaac Herzog’s proposed compromise on...

14.02.2023 10

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Israeli rescuers depart Turkey early over safety fears as locals fume at government

A delegation from the United Hatzalah emergency response organization to Turkey is cutting short its mission and returning to Israel early over...

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Woman strips down to swimsuit at Western Wall in apparent protest of modesty bill

A woman stripped down to a bathing suit at the Western Wall on Sunday morning in an apparent protest of a contentious bill that would criminalize...

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Israeli rescuer who helped in ’99 earthquakes returns to Turkey to save lives

MARASH, Turkey — Lt. Col. (res.) Golan Landsberg is an old hand at search-and-rescue work, having taken part in nearly a dozen Israeli missions...

10.02.2023 40

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‘She helped us, told us when to do what’: Israeli doc describes rescuing Turkish girl

MARASH, Turkey — When her fourth-floor apartment came crashing down to the ground before dawn on Monday morning, the 15-year-old girl inside became...

09.02.2023 40

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In devastated Turkey, rescuers battle cold, concrete to save those trapped by quake

KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkey — The devastation inflicted upon the southern Turkish city of Kahramanmaraş by the powerful earthquake on Monday is almost...

08.02.2023 10

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Another Israeli aid delegation takes off for southern Turkey after deadly quakes

A delegation of dozens of Israeli doctors, medics, rescue operators and psychotrauma specialists took off for southern Turkey on Tuesday afternoon to...

07.02.2023 60

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US Jewish leader Daroff warns: ‘Crisis of divisiveness’ is tearing Israel apart

The head of the American Jewish community’s umbrella organization on Thursday said he was greatly concerned by the growing division in Israel,...

02.02.2023 60

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113-year-old Ukrainian synagogue damaged by Russian shelling — local reports

A Russian shell struck a 113-year-old synagogue in the eastern Ukrainian city of Huliaipole, damaging the building, local media reported Tuesday. A...

01.02.2023 40

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Less than a third of Jewish Israelis trust the Rabbinate; does it care?

Less than a third of Jewish Israelis say they have significant trust in the Chief Rabbinate, according to recent survey data from the Israel Democracy...

30.01.2023 10

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Rabbi Yoni Rosensweig looks to remove stigma of mental health, one ruling at a time

At first, Rabbi Yoni Rosensweig was just looking for some answers to a few questions he’d been asked about Jewish law and mental health. That...

30.01.2023 30

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An Israeli city nixed an LGBTQ Holocaust docu screening, so citizens did it instead

The northern city of Harish canceled the screening of a Holocaust documentary that was meant to be held in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day on...

27.01.2023 50

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Even among its advocates, changing the Law of Return proves trickier than expected

Lawmakers, rabbis and activists debated the Law of Return and the government’s plans to restrict it on Wednesday night, with even supporters of the...

27.01.2023 30

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Israelis split on whether Diaspora Jews should weigh in on changes to Law of Return

Israelis are deeply split, primarily along religious lines, about a proposal to alter the Law of Return, the 1970 legislation that largely sets...

25.01.2023 20

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Eyeing their community’s rightward shift, left-wing religious Jews form new movement

Over 600 people gathered in Jerusalem’s Heichal Shlomo synagogue this week as part of a nascent grassroots movement seeking to give voice to an...

25.01.2023 40

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UTJ submits bill to ban hametz from hospitals during Passover

Members of the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party submitted a bill Monday to ban leavened goods, or hametz, from hospitals during the Passover...

24.01.2023 10

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Kosher cheeseburgers? Chief rabbi rules some cultured meat may not be ‘fleishig’

While cheeseburgers — made with dairy cheese and beef burgers — are unlikely to appear on kosher restaurant menus anytime soon, a relatively...

19.01.2023 20

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MKs demand solutions to Hebrew teacher shortage vexing new immigrants

A Knesset committee on Wednesday debated the causes and possible solutions for a major shortage of instructors for state-run Hebrew schools, or...

18.01.2023 40

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After five years of waiting, American convert finally granted Israeli citizenship

David Ben Moshe, a Black American convert to Judaism, obtained Israeli citizenship on Thursday, bringing to a close a five-year struggle against...

12.01.2023 40

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Anti-government protest group seeks to ‘lower flames’ in fight versus legal overhaul

The appearance of a Palestinian flag at Saturday night’s demonstration against the government’s plans to dramatically reduce the power and...

12.01.2023 20

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Maoz looks to involve Rabbinate in determining Jewishness of would-be immigrants

Deputy Minister Avi Maoz said he planned to involve the Chief Rabbinate in determining the Jewishness of people from the former Soviet Union applying...

12.01.2023 40

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Shas co-founder and spiritual leader Rabbi Shimon Baadani dies at age 94

Rabbi Shimon Baadani, one of the founders and spiritual leaders of the Sephardic ultra-Orthodox Shas party, died on Wednesday morning after an...

11.01.2023 30

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After 50-year high in 2021, immigration from North America returns to normal

The Knesset’s immigration committee convened on Monday for the first time in two years, hearing from experts on a wide variety of issues, notably...

10.01.2023 20

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Jewish Agency chief preaches unity, but readies for battle over Law of Return

Doron Almog, bereaved brother and father, former IDF general, and current head of the Jewish Agency, is looking to bring the Jewish people together at...

09.01.2023 30

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2 men attack Western Wall worker who stopped them bringing women to male section

Employee taken to hospital after being hit in the face; police bring suspects in for questioning

05.01.2023 10

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Iran president vows vengeance, 3 years after its general Soleimani was slain by US

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran’s president on Tuesday vowed to avenge the killing of the country’s top general on the third anniversary of...

03.01.2023 10

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Ben Gvir faces dilemma as activists ask to hold Passover sacrifice on Temple Mount

A fringe religious group on Monday night asked newly installed National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir for permission to perform the Passover...

03.01.2023 10

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New immigrants will need to prove they’ve settled in Israel before getting passports

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri is planning a new policy that will see new immigrants required to prove they’ve settled in Israel in order to be...

03.01.2023 20

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Leaders of top Zionist bodies warn Netanyahu against altering Law of Return

The heads of top international Zionist groups on Sunday sent a joint letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, warning him against his incoming...

02.01.2023 10

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Haredim are fastest growing population, will be 16% of Israelis by decade’s end

Israel’s ultra-Orthodox population is currently at 1.28 million or 13.5 percent of the 9.45 million total national population, according to an...

02.01.2023 30

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Israeli woman stabbed, serious injured, at Rome train station — Italian media

An Israeli tourist was stabbed and seriously wounded at a train station in Rome on Saturday night, local Italian media reported. According to the...

02.01.2023 40

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Incoming religious services minister pledges to strengthen Rabbinate, boost salaries

Michael Malkieli also vows to expand powers of rabbinic courts; Shas leader Aryeh Deri says party paid a political price to get the ministry

01.01.2023 20

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Jerusalem chief rabbi pans religious MKs who backed Ohana as 1st gay Knesset speaker

Jerusalem’s Sephardic chief rabbi, Shlomo Amar, said Sunday that it was “unbearable” that an openly gay man, Likud lawmaker Amir Ohana, was made...

01.01.2023 40

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New religious services minister delays kashrut reform as coalition looks to nix it

In one of the first acts of the incoming coalition, newly installed Religious Services Minister Michael Malkieli on Thursday delayed the...

29.12.2022 10

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Amichai Chikli, son of a Conservative rabbi, named next Diaspora affairs minister

Likud lawmaker Amichai Chikli was named the next Diaspora affairs minister on Wednesday night, giving him a modest budget but great symbolic...

29.12.2022 40

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Jewish groups shore up Ukrainian communities for an uncertain, freezing winter

As Russian forces continue to pound Ukraine’s critical infrastructure, causing regular power and water outages, Jewish groups have been working to...

29.12.2022 30

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‘One of the great rabbis of Israel’: Religious Zionist Rabbi Chaim Druckman mourned

Tens of thousands of people, the overwhelmingly majority of them Orthodox men, traveled to a small community outside Ashkelon on Monday to pay final...

26.12.2022 70

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Rabbi Chaim Druckman, doyen of political religious Zionism, dies at 90

Rabbi Chaim Druckman, a leading, if controversial, figure in the conservative end of the religious Zionist movement, died on Sunday after contracting...

25.12.2022 10

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