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7 weeks after elections and minutes before deadline, Likud head tells president he's mustered a majority; right-religious coalition set to expand settlements, constrain judiciary
It may sound counter-intuitive to ask why we need to count Jews, after a third of our number were exterminated in the Holocaust. But there are critical ethical, if not statistical, reasons to push back against our demographic obsession, not least when Israel is doing it
They do reduce the Rabbinate's centralized power, but in very different ways, which fundamentally upholds the rabbis' authority, rather than undermining it
They do reduce the Rabbinate's centralized power, but in very different ways, which fundamentally upholds the rabbis' authority, rather than undermining it
Comments JERUSALEM — In a groundbreaking eight-to-one decision, the Israeli Supreme Court recently ruled that the Law of Return, which grants citizenship to any Jewish person who comes to Israel, applies to anyone who converted to Judaism while in Israel through a non-orthodox conversion. This ruling has created a great deal of political turmoil and anger among Zionist-religious parties and the State chief rabbinate. In a political system like the one in Israel, where small political parties are crucial to any coalition government and are often the determinin...