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Sep 25, 2022, 4:39 PM
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Rosh Hashanah or January 1?
This season of Jewish holidays goes a long way to preserve our Jewish identity, protecting us from the pervasive divisiveness and assimilation in Israeli society
Jan 5, 2022, 3:43 PM
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The Haredi leadership: Crime and its punishment
The ultra-Orthodox self-segregate from Israeli society, but the Walder affair is revealing major cracks in the 'wall of holiness.' A day of reckoning is coming
Sep 1, 2021, 3:48 PM
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The (non-)draft law for Haredim
Lowering the draft age for the ultra-Orthodox to let them leave the army at the usual age sounds like a good idea, but it might just bring down this people's army
Aug 8, 2021, 3:50 PM
Artem – brother or other?
Israel must find a way to allow marriage for all and the best option is to set up a civil union track that doesn't undercut the Rabbinate's halachic authority
Jul 19, 2021, 2:06 PM
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High Court gender segregation ruling provides for ‘A Room of Their Own’
In agreeing to limited separation in academia, the Court rejected the extreme positions of both the Haredim and those who oppose them
Jun 6, 2021, 3:31 PM
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American Jews, how ‘Jewish’ are you?
Jewish pride has replaced the humiliated Jew of history, but where Israelis are entrenched in the trappings of Jewish identity, American Jews must choose
Oct 30, 2020, 1:37 AM
Yitzhak’s blood cries out to us from the ground
Twenty-five years have passed since Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was murdered. Today, half of all Israelis cannot remember that terrible day. But the other half, those over age 30, certainly cannot forget it. But is the memory of that...
Oct 9, 2020, 9:24 AM
Cruel calculations
The behavior of at least some of the ultra-Orthodox in recent weeks makes absolutely no sense. What was the Belzer rabbi thinking when he gathered thousands of his followers for a wedding, in blatant violation of the rules, and at...
May 22, 2020, 7:21 PM
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The rule of law over the ruler
It's one of democracy's substantial achievements: just like every citizen, Netanyahu will stand before 3 judges, whose task is to decide whether he is innocent or guilty
May 8, 2020, 7:03 PM
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Sanity prevails: 11 to 0
High Court voted unanimously - itself a breath of fresh air - and the public saw for themselves that there was no diabolical plot to undermine the separation of powers
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Yedidia Stern is president of the Jewish People Policy Institute and a professor of law at Bar-Ilan University, who was previously a senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute.