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Showing posts with label Issues in Judaism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Issues in Judaism. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Sarah Silverman's Election Videos and the Exchange with Yaakov Rosenblatt

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Comedian Sarah Silverman can be quite raunchy and sometimes downright offensive.  But some of her publicity stunts in connection with this y...
Thursday, October 18, 2012

Latest Arrests of Women at the Kotel

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Israel continues to serve as a crucible for the multi-layered clash between freedom of religion, gender equality and freedom of expression. ...
Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Indian Restaurant in Jerusalem Loses Kosher Certification For Selling Vegetables From Non-Approved Places

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Only Kosher vegetables may be served in Kosher restaurants, according to an increasingly large number of rabbinic authorities around the w...
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Thursday, October 11, 2012

International Day of the Girl: Israel and Gender Equality

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According the Global Gender Gap Report, 2011 , published by the World Economic Forum, Israel was ranked 55th in the world in gender gap issu...
Friday, June 29, 2012

Israel to Draft Ultra-Religious and Arab Israelis

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The debate over universal, mandatory military conscription in Israel is heating up.  It is a very important debate, which may change the cha...
Friday, June 22, 2012

Woman Arrested for Wearing Tallit at Kotel

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 A woman was arrested yesterday at the Kotel (the Western Wall) in Jerusalem and questioned for wearing a Tallit (a prayer shawl) in the...
Monday, April 23, 2012

Mezuzah in Connecticut Causes a Stir: Condo Board Backs Down

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There is a you tube video making the rounds about an incident in Stratford, Connecticut. A condo resident, Barbara Cadranel, was ordered b...
Thursday, April 19, 2012

Kitniyot or Lo Liyot (To Eat or Not to Eat Legumes on Passover)

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As another Pesach (Passover) has come and gone, I have continued to reflect on the issue of kitniyot eating during the holiday. I discus...
Thursday, April 5, 2012

Kitniyot, Passover Preparations and Other Random Observations

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I hope everyone enjoyed my April Fool’s column about the pigs in Beit Shemesh. Hopefully no one was too offended. This time, I thought I ...
Sunday, April 1, 2012

More Religious-Secular Tensions in Israel: Swine Let Loose in Beit-Shemesh

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A new organization has waddled into the religious-secular debate in Israel by stirring up a great deal of mud. HAZIRA (Chilonim Zazim – Yi...
Thursday, March 1, 2012

Justice Joubran, Arabs and Haredim in Israel: Loyalty, Hatikvah and Universal Conscription?

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(Israeli Supreme Court Justice Salim Joubran - from Haaretz) Justice Asher Grunis was sworn in on Tuesday as the new President (Chief Jus...
Sunday, February 26, 2012

Buses in Tel-Aviv? Ultra-Orthodox to go to the Army? More on Secular-Religious Tensions in Israel

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On February 13, 2012, I wrote about some issues of religious-secular tension in Israel. There have been some further developments and I tho...
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Monday, February 13, 2012

Religious-Secular Tensions in Israel

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Israel faces many different types of issues, some of which are distinctly more problematic than those with which other countries have to co...
Sunday, February 5, 2012

Israeli Chief Rabbinate Rules: Häagen Dazs No Longer Kosher in Israel

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I'm a little behind (2 or 3 weeks or so) on writing about this one but I couldn't resist. As reported in the Jerusalem Post on Jan...
Friday, January 20, 2012

Gender Equality Issues: From Israel to Canadian Conservative Synagogues

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The issue of gender equality has been getting a great deal of attention in Israel recently, as I have written in some of my previous blog ar...
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Sunday, January 1, 2012

Haredi (Ultra-Orthodox) Protest in Jerusalem Uses Nazi Era Symbols

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Israeli news outlets YNet News and Haaretz as well as Israeli radio and television stations have devoted extensive coverage to a rally by Ul...