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Prisoner Escapes from the Israeli Rabbinical Court

Rachel Levmore — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:30:55 +0000

In the Jewish Democratic State, Rabbinical Court Judges are an integral part of the Justice system – with similar powers to civil judges in their specific area of jurisdiction. The Israeli State Rabbinical Court, by virtue of the civil law passed in the Knesset, has sole jurisdiction over marriage and divorce of Jewish citizens or [...]

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Of hills and age

Rachel Levmore — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 08:52:43 +0000

When you are well into your fifties, walking up the hill near your home with your children is not nearly as much fun as it used to be. It’s not because the kids are all grown and as young adults they don’t want to hear you sing happy songs at their age. It’s because you [...]

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Entering An Agunah’s Story

Rachel Levmore — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:44:11 +0000

In a remarkably intimate atmosphere, one hundred Jerusalem Anglos heard the riveting story of one of their own. Through the cooperation of several organizations – Young Israel and the Jewish Agency, The Givat Sharett Chesed Committee (Beit Shemesh) Simcha Gemach in memory of Feigel bat Tuvia Nisan and the Orthodox Union’s Israel Center – residents [...]

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Agunah after Agunah on Agunah Day

Rachel Levmore — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:51:19 +0000

Take a moment from the busy, at times cynical, lives we lead and listen to one person’s story – for she wrote us all a letter: February 2013 To whom it may concern, My name is Dr Tova Goldfine. I currently live in Jerusalem after making Aliya from the suburbs of Philadelphia. Tamar Epstein and [...]

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A number so that we’ll ask

Rachel Levmore — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 10:55:30 +0000

Walk into one of the pastel colored ice cream stores on the Ben Yehuda pedestrian mall in Jerusalem and you may be greeted by a young woman who is very different from the laconic teenager you would expect to serve you a tasty treat. In fact, the dissonance is jarring. For on the pretty smooth-skinned [...]

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A New-Old Voice

Rachel Levmore — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:51:18 +0000

“Building the State of Israel”, “contributing to all its components – society, economy, the IDF”, “participation in academia”, “respect of non-Jews”, “adherence to the law”, “promotion of women’s status”, “attentive discourse” – these were the principles discussed at the founding conference of a new Israeli organization. It sounds like classic Zionism. In a manner of [...]

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