Religion and State in Israel: Religion and State in Israel

Religion and State in Israel

October 11, 2012 (Section 2) (see also Section 1)

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Editor – Joel Katz

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Israel's Masorti movement waves a new Simhat Torah flag

http://www.haaretz.com/

Controversial design, featuring dancing women and Herzl in a beit midrash, is selling by the thousands.

Simchat Torah flags go feminist

http://www.ynetnews.com/

N.Y. director-turned-rabbi wants to take Masorti mainstream

http://www.haaretz.com/

As the newly hired rabbi of Kehillat Magen Avraham, Sadoff led a mostly sabra community in prayer and delivered his sermon - about how to cope with major life transitions - in fluent if slightly accented Hebrew.

VIDEO: Thousands at Priestly Blessing at Kotel/WesternWall

PHOTOS: Thousands of pilgrims at Western Wall for the Blessing of the Priests

http://www.demotix.com/

PHOTOS: Preparations underway for Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles

http://www.demotix.com/

Introducing world's largest sukkah

http://www.ynetnews.com/

PHOTOS: Sukkot in Jerusalem

http://www.demotix.com/

VIDEO: Jerusalem Sukkot Four Species Market

Anglos go sukkah-hopping in Israel

http://www.haaretz.com/

Praying for a bike, waiting for the messiah

http://www.haaretz.com/

Police block entry to Mevasseret Zion on Yom Kippur

http://www.haaretz.com/

VIDEO: 2012 Yom Kippur at Western Wall: Thousands of Israelis Gather for Selichot - Rabbis Lead Prayers

Hundreds of Jews hurl rocks at cars in Jerusalem on Yom Kippur

http://www.haaretz.com/

In Israel’s Yom Kippur ‘Kippurtopia,’ a gift from the religious community to the secular

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

Yom Kippur in Israel: 64% fast, 46% pray

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Opinion: Empty prayers for forgiveness

http://www.haaretz.com/

By Rachel Neeman

This question in turn leads us to wonder whether we do indeed live in a secular culture, or only pretend that we do, and have in actuality become addicted to rituals such as prostration on the graves of rabbis and buying amulets blessed by kabbalists.

Israeli culture, which initially grew out of a rejection of religion and all that it stands for, is today apologetic at best and addicted to religious ritual at worst, and no longer even dreams of a separation of religion and state.

Poll show most Jewish Israelis observe Yom Kippur

http://www.jpost.com/

PHOTOS: Cast away your sins: Tashlich in pictures: Jerusalem, Ashdod, Netanya

http://www.ynetnews.com/

J’lem merchants: No lulav shortage this year

http://www.jpost.com/

Jerusalem's Four Species market ahead of Succot

http://www.jpost.com/

240 ‘accessible’ services to be held on Yom Kippur

http://www.jpost.com/

Poll show most Jewish Israelis observe Yom Kippur

VIDEO: Kapparot in full swing on Jerusalem streets

PHOTOS: Kapparot for penance and purification at Mahane Yehuda Market

http://www.demotix.com/

PHOTOS: ICEJ launches the Israel Allies Foundation’s Chairman’s Conference

http://www.demotix.com/

PHOTOS: Five thousand ICEJ pilgrims support Israel in Jerusalem Parade

http://www.demotix.com/

Christian lawmakers from around the world gather in J'lem

http://www.jpost.com/

Anti-extremism org "Tag Meir" voices solidarity with Christian community against vandals

http://www.jpost.com/

VIDEO: Vandals hit J'lem church in suspected 'price tag'

Vandals hit J'lem church in suspected 'price tag'

http://www.jpost.com/

Another Israeli church defaced with 'price tag' graffiti

http://www.haaretz.com/

CARTOON: They’re insulting our prophet (Haredi rabbis burn iPhones)

http://www.haaretz.com/

In Israel, rabbis defend communities from a new evil - the iPhone

http://www.haaretz.com/

Burn iPhones Says Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Jew

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

Influential haredi rabbi calls for iPhones to be burned

http://www.jpost.com/

Senior haredi rabbi to followers: Burn your iPhones

http://www.jpost.com/

Haredi rabbis step up war on smartphones

http://www.ynetnews.com/

VIDEO: Haredi rabbis step up war on smartphones

VIDEO: “Fill the Void” by Rama Burshtein

Trailer with English Subtitles

Shira, the youngest daughter of an Orthodox Hassidic family from Tel Aviv has to choose between her heart's wish and her family duty

Movie by ultra-Orthodox director sweeps Israeli 'Oscar' ceremony

http://www.haaretz.com/

Israel Picks Haredi Drama as Oscar Entry

http://blogs.forward.com/

Why do Haredim put the brakes on pedaling?

http://www.haaretz.com/

The ex-Jerusalemite behind New York's 'Haredi National Enquirer'

http://www.haaretz.com/

Breaking out of Scientology’s iron grip

http://www.haaretz.com/

The Church of Scientology opened its gleaming new center in Jaffa with great fanfare last month. But the notoriously secretive organization does not appreciate when its members ask too many questions, as Dani and Tami Lemberger, longtime Scientologists from Haifa, have found out.

Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court: Jews should be allowed to pray on Temple Mount

http://www.haaretz.com/

Following the dream of a Third Temple in Jerusalem

http://www.haaretz.com/

Temple Mount Faithful: From the fringes to the mainstream

http://www.haaretz.com/

5 nabbed, Feiglin held for praying on Temple Mount

http://www.jpost.com/

'Police harassing Jews on Temple Mount'

http://www.ynetnews.com/

Likud MK Hotovely: Probe police for Temple Mount conduct

http://www.jpost.com/

The Temple Mount: The Flashpoint of the World

http://www.theatlantic.com/

MK Ariel vows to support controversial Silwan park

http://www.jpost.com/

Rabbi Cherlow: Why Aren’t Human Rights Advocates Protesting Outlawing Jewish Prayers on Temple Mount?

http://www.jewishpress.com/

At Uman clinic, Jewish pilgrimage of thousands presents unique challenges

http://www.jta.org/

Opinion: Enough is enough

http://www.ynetnews.com/

It is unfathomable that some Israelis risk their lives to defend country while others do nothing

By Arsen Ostrovsky

Cpl. Netanel Yahalomi / Devoted soldier combined Torah with combat duty

http://www.haaretz.com/

Huge barriers to universal conscription in Israel

http://www.thejc.com/

Social groups target Ehud Barak in renewed push for universal draft

http://www.haaretz.com/

IDF Military Rabbinate hit by 'porn scandal'

http://www.ynetnews.com/

VIDEO: Lipa & Nachal Haredi Soldiers Dancing on Stage

Insider information from heaven

http://www.haaretz.com/

Spiritual longings of Israeli tycoons is plain old superstition, the age-old desire in a world of uncertainties to think one has a leg up on the future.

God's tycoons

http://www.haaretz.com/

By Neri Livneh

Who is working for whom - Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto for the Israeli businessman Nochi Dankner, or vice versa?

IDF soldiers instructed to bar non-Jewish citizens from settlement

http://www.haaretz.com/

Devout Israeli Jews moving to Arab-Jewish cities

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

Torah scrolls stolen during celebrations — by congregation’s rabbi

http://www.timesofisrael.com/

New Torah Scroll at Nuclear Reactor ‘Protects Us from Iran’

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/