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28 Sep 2023, 4:00 am
Times of Israel and Jerusalem Post report that on Tuesday Israel's Supreme Court, sitting as the High Court of Justice, issued a temporary injunction ordering the government to explain why it has not taken disciplinary action against Jerusalem's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar for the severely derogatory remarks he has made about Reform Judaism, the LGBTQ community and the Women of the Wall Movement. [read post]
5 Jul 2023, 11:46 pm
As Diarmaid MacCulloch recently pointed out about Jewish polygamy: “It was logical for them to honour this form of marriage, given how many respected names in the Jewish past were polygynists; polygyny remained common in Judaism long after Jesus’s own time, particularly in elite circles, as is usually the case with polygyny”[1]. [read post]
12 May 2023, 5:30 am
How many women can credibly show that they have previously had an abortion as part of their religious exercise? [read post]
20 Jun 2022, 2:04 pm
One of the biggest differences between Orthodox Judaism and Reform Judaism turns on the treatment of Jewish Law, known as halacha. [read post]
19 May 2022, 4:00 am
Times of Israel reported yesterday that the Israel Religious Action Center, a branch of the Judaism's Reform movement, is suing an ultra-Orthodox Jewish news website in Israel for $100,000(US) in damages because of its policy of digitally blurring faces of females in news photos it posts. [read post]
17 May 2022, 5:00 am
Nor will the courts mediate whether teachings of Reform Judaism or teachings of Orthodox Judaism are the "true" faith. [read post]
14 Sep 2021, 1:24 pm
” Warnings have come from the Irish Council of Churches, leaders of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, Young Evangelicals for Climate Action, the United Church of Christ, the Leadership Team of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, the Church World Service, the Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism, the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, the AME Zion Church, The Episcopal Church, and United Methodist Women. [read post]
21 Jul 2021, 12:46 am
Jackson Women’s Health this fall. [read post]
13 Mar 2021, 10:31 am
By my read, white cisgender women are not considered diverse. [read post]
9 Nov 2018, 2:19 pm
The repercussions have been severe and overtaken by the mass democratic mobilizations that have emerged around both the blasphemy law and governmental suggestions that it might be softened for infractions against Islam (no one speaks of the effects of blaspheming or insulting Christianity, Baha'i, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism or the like), and popular action against government officials who support this change in the blasphemy laws (or defend the Christian peasant women… [read post]
27 Aug 2018, 2:58 pm
Speech that argues that women tend to be biologically worse than men at various tasks (or vice versa). [read post]
12 Mar 2018, 6:09 am
Farrakhan called Judaism a “dirty religion,” and warned Jews against attacking Jackson: “If you harm this brother, it will be the last one you harm. [read post]
22 Feb 2018, 4:05 am
Laser has had extensive experience in non-profit advocacy, having worked for Planned Parenthood, the National Women’s Law Center, Third Way and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. [read post]
26 Jun 2017, 4:05 am
As reported by Haaretz and the Jerusalem Post, Israel's Cabinet on Sunday voted to suspend the agreement with Judaism's Reform and Conservative movements and the Women of the Wall movement approved by the Cabinet last year to construct a separate prayer space at the Western Wall for egalitarian prayer. [read post]
2 Nov 2016, 6:58 am
Haaretz reports that leaders of the Conservative and Reform movements as well as Women of the Wall broke through security guards and carried Torah scrolls to the Wall in protest of the government's continuing failure to follow through on an agreement to create a separate egalitarian prayer space at the Wall. [read post]
7 Oct 2016, 4:10 am
As reported by YNet News, yesterday groups representing Reform and Conservative Judaism and the group Women of the Wall filed an amended petition with Israel's High Court of Justice asking it to order the government to provide egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall (Kotel). [read post]
4 Aug 2016, 7:46 am
These materials provide an in-depth view of the ruling elite’s perception on the reform of laws to improve the status of women. [read post]
19 Aug 2015, 7:30 am
The Reform movement within the United States has stated that descent can come from a Jewish father instead, at least if the child is raised in a perceptibly “Jewish” manner with regard to inculcation into Judaism at least as defined by Reformed Judaism. [read post]
18 Aug 2015, 7:30 am
You are Jewish if your mother was Jewish or, if you are Reform, if one parent was Jewish and you were raised in that legal culture. [read post]
17 Aug 2015, 10:30 am
This is obviously so with many parts of Orthodoxy; I would argue that it is also true of certain features of Conservative-- and even Reform-- Judaism as well.Indeed, I would suggest that even Kwall herself has to engage in a certain form of this double movement. [read post]
