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Haim Amsalem
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March 17, 2019, 1:39 pm
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March 30, 2016, 3:55 pm
Joseph J. Feit
Time to bring them home
Netanyahu must stop playing petty politics and rescue the last remnant of Ethiopian Jewry
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MKs call for government recognition of independent conversions
A charged committee meeting discusses ‘ticking bomb’ of 350,000 FSU immigrants who can’t convert to Judaism through state religious authority
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Amanda Borschel-Dan
November 18, 2015, 12:12 pm
Gathering pace, rogue Israeli conversion court racks up new Jews
But independent Giyur Kahalacha movement, a direct challenge to chief rabbinate, sees a hurdle ahead — when its converts wish to marry
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Amanda Borschel-Dan
April 30, 2015, 3:14 pm
If Israel toughens its conversion laws, a nail in the coffin of ties with Diaspora Jews?
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
By
Amanda Borschel-Dan
October 7, 2013, 3:52 pm
Israelis unite in grief over Yosef’s death
Controversial views and disagreements of past take backseat to praise for rabbi’s Torah genius
By
Naama Barak
February 19, 2013, 1:10 pm
Dov Lipman’s rock solid struggle for a better Israel
The first US-born MK in 30 years discusses his improbable rise, and the endemic corruption in Israeli politics he and his newly empowered party insist they’ll tackle
By
Raphael Ahren
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David Horovitz
January 23, 2013, 5:16 pm
In the next Knesset, a radical case of musical chairs
It’s out with the old — more than 50 of them — and in with the new
By
Gabe Fisher
January 23, 2013, 2:49 pm
Israel’s elections: What just happened?
Israel voted for change, and moved a little from right to center; Lapid is the big success but Netanyahu is still a winner, albeit battered and constrained
By
David Horovitz
January 22, 2013, 10:21 am
Vote for us: The profiles
In the final weeks of the campaign, The Times of Israel’s Matti Friedman interviewed and profiled six very different Knesset candidates. As voters choose their parties, here’s his reminder of some of the more compelling prospective MKs
January 20, 2013, 4:07 pm
And Naftali Bennett wins… on Wikipedia
Ascendant right-wing leader receives far more views on his Hebrew-language page than any of his rivals — including Netanyahu
By
Gabe Fisher
January 17, 2013, 5:15 pm
Elya Tzur
Elections and the Jewish question: it’s Amsalem for me
He symbolizes a return to Utopian Zionism, aspiring to merge the national with the universal
January 13, 2013, 10:47 am
Who would Maimonides vote for?
Your cut-out-and-keep guide (okay, your bookmark and reopen guide) to the runners and riders (sorry, parties and politicians) who’ll be running our lives
By
Raphael Ahren
January 1, 2013, 10:28 am
Likud-Beytenu continues to bleed votes to Jewish Home, new poll finds
Ruling party projected to receive only 34 seats, as opposed to 15 for Naftali Bennett’s list, which is swelled by support from the non-Orthodox
By
Gabe Fisher
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