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Alex Sinclair in an undated photo and his kippa before and after a Palestinian flag was cut out of it, as pictured on April 23, 2026. (Alex Sinclair/Courtesy)
April 25, 2026, 11:34 am
UK-born Israeli whose coexistence kippa was carved up by police asks ‘what is in store for us’
After being detained for wearing a head covering featuring Israeli and Palestinian flags, writer and peace activist Alex Sinclair warns against letting the country descend into illiberalism
By PHILISSA CRAMER
A group of people in Jerusalem mark Israel's 75th Independence Day with a ceremonial reading of the Declaration of Independence, on April 26, 2023 (Credit: Mabua).
May 14, 2024, 9:01 am
Emerging Independence Day ritual inspires unity and gratitude in shadow of October 7
Reading the Declaration of Independence together in public bridges between secular and religious Israelis in a new-old tradition that can be adapted to any citizen’s faith
By Maya Zanger-Nadis
Groom breaking a glass at a Jewish wedding. (illustrative photo: PavlovskiJenya/iStock by Getty)
February 5, 2023, 10:26 pm
Boston’s Hebrew College will now ordain rabbinical students with non-Jewish partners
The decision makes the pluralistic institution only the second major rabbinical school in the United States to do away with rules that bar dating or marrying non-Jews
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Leaders of the Reform and Conservative movements at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, November 2, 2016. (Courtesy Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism)
March 1, 2021, 10:22 pm
Conversion ruling ends decades of official shunning of Reform, Conservative
Few converts are likely to be affected by the High Court’s decision, but the court itself may face renewed calls on the right to weaken its powers
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Prayer services at the pluralistic prayer pavilion at the Western Wall, on July 17, 2014. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
March 1, 2021, 9:06 pm
Court ruling for non-Orthodox conversions sets up battle at the heart of Judaism
With bombshell decision, justices bring to an end decades of ambivalence regarding the status of non-Orthodox Judaism in Israel. But the final word has not yet been said
By David Horovitz
Shas party MK Yinon Azoulay (left) speaks at the Knesset, as Speaker Yuli Edelstein looks on. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 5, 2018, 3:09 am
Ultra-Orthodox MK suggests earthquake was due to Western Wall mixed prayer area
In vicious tirade from Knesset podium, Shas lawmaker says Reform, Conservative ‘aren’t Jews’, should use money they invest in Israel to build their own Western Wall in the US
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the American Jewish Committee (AJC) Global Forum in Jerusalem, June 10, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 10, 2018, 11:52 pm
PM urges Diaspora Jews to visit Western Wall pluralistic prayer platform
The Jewish people’s unity is ‘not always amenable to daily politics,’ Netanyahu tells AJC Global Forum, indicating he won’t implement 2016 deal
By Raphael Ahren
Yonatan Gher
May 30, 2018, 3:14 pm
Yonatan Gher
When is freedom of religion hypocrisy?
Had the airport tefillin-wearer been female, she’d have been taken to task for being a ‘provocateur’
Maia Morag
March 14, 2018, 10:21 am
Maia Morag
Sharansky’s fight for unity
Despite the Western Wall debacle, the Jewish Agency chair makes the future of the Jewish people his north star
Sara Kupfer
February 26, 2018, 3:28 pm
Sara Kupfer
Being religious is a strike against me
It is not easy, but I am an empowered Orthodox Jew living in the 21st century, and I make my voice heard
Alice Shalvi, Israeli professor and educator, at her home in Jerusalem on March 14, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 18, 2018, 5:29 am
Dr. Alice Shalvi: Equal education of Orthodox women is changing Israeli society
The fight for parity in Israel is only just getting started, says the 91-year-old champion of religious feminism
By Tracy Frydberg
Senator Joe Lieberman speaking at 'The First Israeli Congress on Judaism and Democracy' on February 11, 2018. (Erez Uzir)
February 13, 2018, 2:54 am
Joe Lieberman: ‘Unity is a precondition to national strength and liberty’
In Tel Aviv for the First Israeli Congress on Judaism and Democracy, the senator’s experience bridging his own democratic and Jewish values makes him optimistic Israel will too
By Tracy Frydberg
Ari Segal
November 5, 2017, 1:38 pm
Ari Segal
Breaking the Jewish gridlock
What if the Haredim traded progressive weddings in Israel for control of the Kotel?
Rabbis from T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, carry a pop-up sukkah in a demonstration for immigrants’ rights outside the Trump Tower in New York, October 9, 2017. (Courtesy of T’ruah)
October 11, 2017, 4:34 am
5 sukkahs that double as progressive spaces
A sukkah in a mosque aimed at helping Syrian refugees and four others being used to build bridges, break stereotypes and spark change
By Josefin Dolsten
The 700-square-meter Beit Tefilah Israeli Sukkah at the Tel Aviv port, pictured here in 2016 (Courtesy Beit Tefilah Israeli)
October 4, 2017, 11:07 am
Tel Aviv hosts 25,000 visitors in ‘world’s largest sukkah’
Five-year tradition, hosted by pluralistic Beit Tefilah Israeli, seeks to bring ‘all the sectors of Israeli society’ under one roof
By Melanie Lidman
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