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The number of Jews registering weddings with the state body has decreased since 2011, even as the population has grown by more than 20%, religious advocacy group finds
(RNS) — Critics of proposed judicial reform fear that it would allow the so-called religious parties that make up a crucial swing vote in Israel’s Knesset, or parliament, to impose fervently religious norms on the country’s non-Orthodox majority.
David Ben Moshe, born David Bonett, first applied for citizenship in 2018 and spent years fighting against the unyielding world of Israeli bureaucracy
For now, the state-issued exams represent a purely symbolic victory, granting female Torah scholars formal recognition with no practical significance
Anticipated coalition likely to have major impact on religion-and-state issues, with reforms on kashrut certification, conversion and LGBT rights expected to be rolled back