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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 536

Ministry of Religious Services

Shas party member Michael Malkieli at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 20, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
April 17, 2024, 7:35 pm
New regulations would expand Haredi control over municipal rabbis, sideline women
After Knesset bill nixed, Religious Services Ministry pushes similar changes that critics say would ’emasculate local authorities and completely centralize role of municipal rabbi’
By Sam Sokol
Religious Affairs Minister Matan Kahana. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 11, 2021, 12:29 pm
An Orthodox minister and his hypocritical ultra-Orthodox critics
Matan Kahana’s reforms would bring ultra-Orthodox men into the workforce earlier, remake kashrut, bolster conversion – all according to halacha. Haredi leaders should be delighted
By David Horovitz
Yamina MK Matan Kahana speaks during an election campaign event in Sderot on March 17, 2021. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
June 9, 2021, 1:15 pm
Future minister sees some changes on religion and state, but largely status quo
Yamina MK Matan Kahana says he’ll reform kosher supervision, name new city rabbis, and of course there will be a full inquiry into April’s Mount Meron disaster, which killed 45
By Amy Spiro
Religious Affairs Minister David Azoulay arrives at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem for the weekly cabinet meeting on December 11, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 30, 2018, 8:55 pm
Religious Affairs Minister Azoulay dies after battle with cancer
Politicians mourn death of Shas member, 64, who resigned from Knesset earlier this year to fight illness
By Alexander Fulbright and Raoul Wootliff
A Mikveh in Har Nof, Jerusalem. May 12, 2013. (Uri Lenz/FLASH90)
February 21, 2018, 2:02 am
Pressed by court, religious council drops waiver for using mikveh alone
Judge says Jerusalem body’s demand that women sign form may have intimidated them from exercising right to immerse in ritual bath unsupervised
By ToI Staff
Illustrative photo of a luxury mikvah. (Flash90/ Gershon Elinson)
July 3, 2017, 10:28 am
Forced to sign waiver to use ritual bath alone, some Jerusalem women fear coercion
The Supreme Court has ruled that making women immerse under supervision is an invasion of privacy, so why must they fill out ‘permission slips’ to dip?
By Yaakov Schwartz
Illustrative photo of members of Brazil's Jewish community rallying in solidarity with Israel, June 17, 2014 (photo credit: courtesy)
December 20, 2016, 8:04 pm
Israeli whose body was found in plastic bag in Brazil gets Jewish funeral
Carlos Ginsburg was interred in public cemetery 7 years ago, but his remains were later exhumed and another person buried in grave
By JTA
Members of the Reform and Conservative Jewish movements hold a mixed men and women prayer at the public square in front of the Western Wall, in Jerusalem's Old City, on July 7, 2016.(Hadas Parush/Flash90)
July 7, 2016, 10:20 am
Despite heckles, pluralistic services at Western Wall pass ‘quietly’
Reform, Conservative Jews comply with attorney general’s order not to pray at holy site, but still draw protests from small group for singing and dancing
By ToI Staff
People pray on either side of the dividing wall that separates the male and female prayer sections at the Western Wall, June 14, 2016. (Wajsgras/Flash90)
July 6, 2016, 9:40 pm
Israel forbids mixed-gender prayer service at Western Wall
In a letter to Reform and Conservative Jews, government cites rule against hosting ‘religious ceremonies’ in holy site’s plaza
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, March 6, 2016. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)
March 6, 2016, 11:54 pm
PM ‘committed’ to Western Wall prayer deal despite opposition
After meeting canceled, Netanyahu asks chief rabbis to submit comments on the agreement for egalitarian worship
By AFP
Illustrative photo of a bride and groom prior to their wedding, November 4, 2015. (Flash90)
March 6, 2016, 11:23 pm
Police probing how Haifa Rabbinate obtained data on marrying couples
Investigation into Religious Services Ministry officials comes after TV claims licences were denied to those asking Tzohar rabbis to marry them
By ToI Staff
Worshippers at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman in Uman, Ukraine (CC BY-SA Nahoumsabban, Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
February 12, 2016, 8:53 pm
Ukraine threatens visa bans over Israeli minister’s Crimea trip
Thousands travel to Uman every year to visit gravesite of famed 18th-century rabbi; countries signed waiver deal in 2011
By JTA
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen with the head of the Jewish Agency Natan Sharansky. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/FLASH90)
July 12, 2015, 7:07 pm
Netanyahu doubles down in Reform row: ‘Israel is home for all Jews’
Prime minister reiterates his rejection of comments made by coalition members critical of non-Orthodox Jews
By Tamar Pileggi and ToI Staff
MK Moshe Gafni on October 27, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)
July 8, 2015, 2:14 pm
Reform Jews ‘stab Torah in the back’ — ultra-Orthodox lawmaker
MK Moshe Gafni weighs in day after religious services minister says non-Orthodox Jews aren’t Jews; Bennett strongly rebuts statement
By Adiv Sterman and ToI Staff
Religious Services Minister David Azulay seen during a Knesset committee meeting, February 13, 2013. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
July 7, 2015, 7:37 pm
Netanyahu disavows minister who denigrated Reform Jews
After religious affairs minister says Reform Jews aren’t Jewish, PM reminds him that Israel is ‘a home for all Jews’
By ToI Staff
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