Academic attainment language education of students in the national-religious school system is significantly weaker than in the nonreligious system, a study conducted by the Ne’emanei Torah Va’avodah think tank and lobbying group has revealed.
Neemanei Torah Va’avodah was itself instrumental in setting up an alternative memorial rally in 2012 to the main rally conducted every year on Saturday night after the anniversary of the assassination in Kings of Israel Square, later renamed Rabin Square.
State Comptroller’s Office rep says some of the so-called kabbalists have accumulated wealth of hundreds of millions of shekels but for some reason had not been taxed until now.
Organizations come out in support of popular religious leader who faces the boot for his progressive policies
The Council of the Chief Rabbinate decides to summon Riskin for a hearing before deciding whether or not to grant a five year extension to his tenure as municipal chief rabbi of Efrat.
Alternative organizations that fought to end rabbinate monopoly say battle will now move to who can use the word ‘kosher’
Coalition deal with Shas also grants the haredi party control of the ministry.
With an ultra-Orthodox faction set to run the religious agenda in the new government, the gates for entry to Judaism will again be guarded by the most stringent interpreters of religious law
הכנסת היוצאת עסקה בהרחבה בענייני דת ומדינה. בבחירות הקרובות יש להמשיך את המומנטום ולקבוע כי מפלגה שלא תכניס למצע שלה שינוי ביחסי דת ומדינה – לא תקבל את קולנו. נדמה כי זו הכנסת שפעלה הכי הרבה, על מנת לשנות את הסטטוס-קוו ולהוביל שינוי בתחום החשוב הזה. הבשורה הייתה עוד מימי המשא ומתן הקואלציוני שבו, לראשונה […]
In face of impending ruling by HCJ, rabbinate vows not to grant ordination without qualification exam for chief municipal rabbis.
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Israel’s religious battles pit an anti-modern and isolationist Chief Rabbinate against an Orthodoxy whose liberal voice is now demanding to be heard.
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Past and present leaders of religious Zionist youth movement come out both for and against compromise over women’s right to pray at Western Wall.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — In a city with a seemingly infinite number of kosher restaurants, Jerusalem restaurateurs have a tough time obtaining certification from the country’s Chief Rabbinate.
Proprietors of the city’s eateries have long complained of exorbitant fines, strict limits on what food they may buy and lax certification supervisors. But they had no choice: the rabbinate’s certification and an even stricter version are the only ones allowed by Israeli law.
In an effort to break the ultra-Orthodox grip on Israel’s Chief Rabbinate, three religious Zionist are angling for the top post. But the community is splintered among various factions, and an upcoming vote for candidacy is escalating tensions.
Rabbi Yuval Cherlow says Israel’s recognition of Reform Jewry is an existential matter; National-Religious group of which Cherlow is senior member, Tzohar, responds: We oppose any official Israeli recognition of Reform Judaism.
The נאמני תורה ועבודה organization has sent a letter to Justice Minister Prof. Yaakov Ne’eman, Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin, Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein and Chairman of the Knesset Law Committee MK Dudi Rotem towards holding elections for Israel’s Chief Rabbis prior to the expiration of the term of the current chief rabbis on March 24, 2013.
The Knesset expeditiously legislated a law which passed in three votes to push off the election for new chief rabbis until after the national election on 11 Shevat 5773.
The legislation also extended the term of the current chief rabbis for a number of months.
Those working for timely elections understand the delay will be significantly more than three months, aware that after the election a coalition must be formed including the selection of cabinet ministers.
The letter calls for convening the Knesset in special session to set a date for elections, a timely date, the same type of special session that was called to postpone the election, adding the vote that passed in the special session was not respectable and such an important matter should not have been addressed in such a flippant fashion by lawmakers.
Regarding efforts to amend the law governing the nation’s chief rabbis, those backing the letter feel the need to amend the law is not urgent and the matter of electing new chief rabbis should be addressed in a timely fashion. They feel that since national elections are being held in January 2013, there is no reason why elections for chief rabbis cannot be held the following month, thereby electing new chief rabbis before the term of the current rabbonim expire, as it should be.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
(Wednesday, October 31st, 2012)
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/article.php?p=143266
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=214363
Ne’emanei Torah Ve’avoda file petition asking the court to basically reduce the weight of the religious services minister in the process.
03/30/2011
By SARAH NADAV
25/03/2010 19:36 THE JERUSALEM POST
Is modern Orthodoxy an endangered species? A joint conference aims to seek direction for the movement.
Dramatic shifts to both the Left and the Right over the past 50 years have left the modern Orthodox and national-religious movements fragmented. These divisions have been causing friction as some factions push for more stringent interpretations of Halacha, while others are pushing boundaries on formally sacrosanct issues.
Matthew Wagner , THE JERUSALEM POST
Jul. 16, 2009
In the latest salvo in the ongoing war between two vying camps over the future of religious Zionism, haredi-leaning rabbis this week torpedoed the appointment of a liberal-minded professor as president of a popular teachers college.
To protest the move, hundreds of more liberal-minded rabbis – many affiliated with the religious kibbutz movement – as well as religious Zionist youths and educators held a collective learning session/demonstration across the street from the Ramat Gan Hesder Yeshiva Wednesday night.
The venue was chosen as protest against the head of the yeshiva, Rabbi Yehoshua Shapira, who recently labeled some more liberal-minded religious Zionist leaders as “neo-reformers.”
The liberals earned the name, said Shapira, because they favored coed education in the Bnei Akiva youth movement and supported a greater role for women in religious leadership, including as rabbis. Shapira also lamented the willingness of some religious Zionist rabbis to allow older single women, whose biological clock for baby bearing was running down, to use artificial insemination.
In the last generation, the Israeli Orthodoxy Jewry has increasingly become more extreme, and has isolated itself from mainstream Israeli society. There is a continued distance and alienation of the Orthodox population from the secular community, and a seeming lack of interest in integrating Halacha and Torah with the concerns and circumstances of modern life. A similar tendency can be seen in the American Modern Orthodox Jewry, having shifted in the past years towards the right (both religiously and politically). This phenomenon is known as the Haredization of Orthodox Jewry.
This article introduces an Israeli organization that strives to promote an alternative route for Israeli Orthodoxy, mainly by returning to the core values of “Torah” with “Derech Eretz”.[1]Ne’emanei Torah vaAvodah (NTA)
