Tagged Israel’s religious pluralism

Israeli lawmakers see Pittsburgh shooting as a time to talk about pluralism

Michael Oren speaks at a conference in the Israeli parliament in 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
October 30, 2018 / Marcy Oster, JTA

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The deadly shooting at a Conservative synagogue in Pittsburgh has underlined tensions in Israel over the haredi Orthodox rabbinic establishment’s disenfranchisement of the Diaspora’s non-Orthodox Jewish streams. Following Saturday’s rampage by a gunman that left 11 worshippers dead, an Israeli government minister and the country’s opposition… Read more »

ANALYSIS American Jews really care about pluralism. But it’s not just about pluralism.

Conservative Jews pray at Robinson’s Arch in Jerusalem, July 30, 2014. (Robert Swift/Flash90)
July 3, 2017 / Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA

(JTA) — The Great Jewish Revolt of 2017. The Bar Kotel Rebellion. The Diaspora Strikes Back. Whatever you call it, last week’s clash between American Jewish leaders and the Netanyahu government felt louder, angrier and more significant than previous clashes over pluralism in Israel. That may be because it wasn’t… Read more »

On rights of non-Orthodox rabbis in Israel, where’s the outrage?
January 30, 2014 / Julie Schonfeld, JTA

The good news is in: Rabbi Avi Weiss’ conversions will be accepted in Israel. I am glad to see that the religious integrity and leadership of Rabbi Weiss has been acknowledged. Undoubtedly, this course correction on the part of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate is due in part to the… Read more »

Haredi Orthodox youth mob Western Wall to protest women’s prayer service
May 10, 2013 / Ben Sales, JTA
Young Israeli Orthodox women turn out by the hundreds to protest Women of the Wall's monthly prayer service at the Western Wall, May 10, 2013. (Ben Sales)

JERUSALEM (JTA) – Haredi Orthodox youths mobbed the Western Wall plaza by the thousands to protest Women of the Wall as they held their monthly prayer service. The youths, many of them students from haredi Orthodox yeshivas, filled the Western Wall Plaza by 6:40 a.m. on Friday, 20 minutes… Read more »