When you cry out that women will be hurt if the coalition successfully passes a bill reversing the Supreme Court order that the Rabbinic Court not handle child support payment determinations, then you may have to consider whether or not you are responding in knee-jerk fashion to the words “coalition,” “Rabbinic Court,” and “law [reform]”and…
When I first saw the video below, I was horrified. How could there be such violence against Jews in my home city of Haifa? Haifa prides itself on being a model of co-existence that is home to Jews, Muslims, and Christians, with Jews lying on all points along the secular to ultra-Orthodox gradient. Surely this…
Ita Silberman (80) was born in Tzfat. Her family arrived from Ukraine in the 16th Century when Isaac Luria (HaARI) drew many Jews from Spain and other parts of Europe. Ita’s grandfather, who features in her first story, was Tzfat Chief Rabbi Abraham Leib Silberman. Her father, Rabbi Berel Silberman, was nicknamed “Iron Feet” because…
Over the winter session, 28 bills were voted into Law. Many of us heard about the Settlement Law, the Disengagement Law, The Prime Minister Incapacity Bill, The Der’i Law, the law revoking terrorist citizenship or residency, the Hametz Law, and the law giving Ben Gvir policy decisionmaking power over the police. What else made it…
Just now, on Galgalatz, there was an episode in the new series “Connecting” in which they reminded listeners that MKs from all parties sit together in the cafeteria, work together in committees and, as I showed in my latest article, sometimes prepare together the same law proposals. Then Efi Triger interviewed Moshe Solomon from Religious…
As part of the anti-judicial reforms demonstrations, there is the argument put forward that the current coalition is only interested in narrow sectorial legislation that makes it clear to protesters that the right wing government cares only about its own extreme interests to the detriment of minorities and human rights interests. This article is part…
In her documentary film, “My People,” the young Greek Jewish actress-singer explores the World War II years in her country and her Jewish roots. She opens a window, not only into the post-war resilience of her Holocaust survivor interviewees, but also into the way church leaders and others helped thousands of Jews avoid deportation, and…
When discussing judicial reform and opposition to it, people on both sides of the issue raise the problem with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and, depending on what one thinks of the man, they deplore either his despicable racism or his apparent inability to curb what comes out of his mouth. He caused a domestic and…
Fury raged in the plenum on 22 March as women called out “shame” and wove their hands in the air holding aloft electronic shackles during Ben Gvir’s speech in the Knesset regarding the opposition bill to institute electronic monitoring of those accused of domestic violence. The bill failed to pass the preliminary reading and Ben…
Odessa native Diana Bukhman, 38, never wanted to make Aliyah. Yet here she is. Ripped from her former life, a good life she mourns the loss of, and she has to reinvent herself. Aliyah is difficult enough when the immigrant makes a conscious decision to move to Israel. But, as a Keren Hayesod spokesperson explains,…
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