May 6, 2013
11:27 pm

The Old Game is over

The chairman of the Knesset’s Committee of the Interior, Miri Regev MK, is reported to have called last week for the Kotel not to be turned into a place......

April 28, 2013
5:25 pm

The Times They Are A-Changin’

Last week marked an important milestone in the struggle for equal rights, pluralism and religious freedom in Israel when Jerusalem’s district court determined that a 2003 Supreme Court ruling......

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April 23, 2013
10:01 pm

Why the Reform Movement is so popular in Israel

It seems only natural to entitle this response with the exact opposite of the title of David Brent's article in Times of Israel last Tuesday. David tells......

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November 16, 2012
1:12 pm

Religious pluralism in Israel? Only with pressure from abroad

As Jewish leaders gathered in Baltimore MD for the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America, the largest annual gathering of the North American Jewish community, discussions......

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September 20, 2012
7:02 am

On Yom Kippur, Rabbinate must put its house in order

The Mishna tells us that before the High Priest would appeal to God on Yom Kippur on behalf of the Jewish people, he would first of all make atonement......

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June 25, 2012
12:00 am

US Jews must force Israel to end the Orthodox monopoly

The Jewish Federations of North America are to be congratulated for condemning the statement by Israel’s Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar last week in which Amar......

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May 13, 2012
1:50 pm

Civil marriage in Israel? Don’t hold your breath

Perhaps, because I live in Israel, I am less hopeful than Rabbi Joshua Hammerman is about the prospects of civil marriage coming to our country, and do not......

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March 1, 2012
9:53 pm

Avrum Burg’s support for the one-state solution

In an ideal world, there would be no national borders, no attempts by nations to keep out illegal immigrants and an egalitarian distribution of resources between all humanbeings. However,......

February 28, 2012
6:34 pm

What Barghouthi failed to mention

Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi's op-ed in The New York Times is, unfortunately, not as attractive as it might at first appear. While Dr. Barghouthi is full of criticism for Israeli......

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Michael Boyden

Rabbi Michael Boyden has helped establish two Reform congregations in Israel - in Ra'anana and in Hod Hasharon – and is the spiritual leader of Kehilat Yonatan; His is a former director of the Rabbinical Court of the Israel Council of Progressive Rabbis