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5 Feb 2016, 4:10 am
In Israel, practitioners say their services are in demand, mostly by Orthodox Jewish men trying to reduce their same-sex attractions so they can marry women and raise a traditional family according to their conservative religious values.Clients also include Jewish teenagers from the U.S. and other countries who attend post-high school study programs at Orthodox seminaries in Israel....Proponents in Israel say therapy does not “convert”… [read post]
15 Oct 2008, 3:09 pm
When the judge is Jewish, a Jewish defendant has significantly higher chances of being released on bail than a similarly situated Arab suspect. [read post]
14 Jul 2011, 2:21 pm
Even for American Jews (who tend to support Israel, and to favor gun control) it would not surprise me if Jewish gun-owners are more pro-Israel than non-owners.Please supply data, and feel free to comment on data that has been supplied by other commenters. [read post]
12 Apr 2008, 6:23 pm
Today's Haaretz reports on the large sums funneled by the government of Israel to religious revivalist groups that work to convince Israeli prisoners to adopt an observant Orthodox Jewish lifestyle. [read post]
20 Feb 2024, 2:27 pm
Three state Democrats who are members of the Maryland Legislative Jewish Caucus are pushing to remove American Muslim activist Zainab Chaudry from a state hate crimes commission for social media posts they’ve said were anti-Semitic. [read post]
24 Mar 2010, 10:02 am
So we are watching unfold a sort of Chicago-style Realpolitik, flavored with the traditional academic leftist disdain for the Jewish state. [read post]
26 Jul 2021, 12:38 pm
The decision to withdraw from West Bank settlements is not a boycott of Israel (and certainly not anti-Semitic, as some have labeled it): Letter to Governors on Ben & Jerry’s and Anti-Boycott Laws July 26, 2021 Dear Governor, We are US pro-Israel organizations representing hundreds of thousands of Jewish Americans, including thousands of Jewish clergy, and other supporters of Israel in the United States. [read post]
23 May 2023, 9:02 am
For instance, in Israel, a husband can be jailed for refusing a get — similar to contempt of court here in the U.S. [read post]
1 Apr 2010, 7:25 am
& State in Israel) for the lead.] [read post]
5 Jun 2018, 8:00 am
More than 100 other bills penalizing boycotts of Israel have been introduced in state and local legislatures in the last four years, and 24 states have enacted legislation targeting the boycott movement. [read post]
5 Jun 2018, 8:00 am
More than 100 other bills penalizing boycotts of Israel have been introduced in state and local legislatures in the last four years, and 24 states have enacted legislation targeting the boycott movement. [read post]
2 Jan 2014, 10:11 am
YNet News reports that last Friday the United States extradited to Israel a man sought primarily by an Israeli Rabbinical Court for refusing to grant his wife a get (Jewish divorce document). [read post]
[Eugene Kontorovich] The legitimacy of Israel’s nation-state bill (I): comparative constitutionalism
9 Dec 2014, 5:30 am
Contrary to common conception, Judaism is not the official religion of Israel, the world’s only Jewish state. [read post]
18 Feb 2007, 2:18 am
The state-funded Institute for Jewish Studies that was formed in 1998 to break a deadlock between Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jewish concerns about conversions has stopped referring candidates to Israel's rabbinical courts for conversion until the chief rabbinate appoints new members to the Conversion Authority who will not impose such strict conditions for conversion. [read post]
10 Sep 2015, 8:11 am
(2) “The American Jewish community, like the United States itself, has seen the split dividing its left and right widen to a gulf. [read post]
1 Jun 2022, 8:24 am
Among other relief, it seeks an injunction barring the Los Angeles Unified School district from:including any language, in any teaching materials, asserting that Zionism is not a Jewish belief; denouncing the Jewish belief in the land of Israel as the land promised by God to the Jewish people, or the Jewish belief in Zionism, or asserting that the State of Israel, as the Nation-State of the Jewish people, is… [read post]
5 Jul 2018, 6:02 pm
“Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Israel: I Pity Your Supreme Court Justices; The Notorious RBG tells Jerusalem audience she is not the retiring type, unlike her peers in the Jewish state who are forced to retire at 70. [read post]
[David Bernstein] Johns Hopkins Jewish Student Association Board Statement on the Hopkins Encampment
10 May 2024, 3:30 pm
While encampments tokenize minority anti-Zionist Jewish voices to justify their rhetoric and actions, national polling consistently shows broad Jewish support for the state of Israel, and the Jewish community at Hopkins is no exception. [read post]
19 Mar 2018, 4:00 am
Although Hamas is Israel’s enemy and would happily see the Jewish state destroyed, its continued control of Gaza (for now) is a necessary evil for Israel given the paucity of alternatives. [read post]
7 Oct 2008, 8:43 am
[Thanks to Religion and State In Israel for the lead.] [read post]
