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• Law Proposal: Banning non-Rabbanut Weddings

  

  A lot of people get married with their personal rabbi officiating the wedding. Generally the rabbis know to insist or encourage the couple to register their... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Bet Shemesh: the Greatest Third-world City in a First-world Country

  

  Bet Shemesh is all over the news again. So far it is just at a national level, as far as I can tell - I haven't seen it mentioned in the international press... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• the Rebellion of the Haredi Women Who Want to Represent Themselves (video)

  

  interview with my favorite haredi feminist Ruth Colian.. Colian is now suing the State to stop funding haredi parties until they include women in their parties.. Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Shir Hamaalot- Naftali Kalfa & Yerachmiel A. Ziegler (video)

  

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  Posted on 29 October 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Interesting Posts #516

  

  1. haredi libertarian 2. what's behind Amir Peretz's attack on Habayit Hayehudi? 3. Is there a commandment to always be happy? No! 4. sights from the Judean... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• If Only We Had Displayed Ahavat Chinam

  

  This letter was written by someone in RBS. Initially he sent it out to some of his neighbors, and then he spread it further asking for it to be distributed... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Bringing Waze to the Mikva

  

  The last times I went up to Tiberias I had a problem. I had no idea were the local shuls were, where the mikva was, what time services would be held, when they... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2013 RELIGION

• Proposed Law: Additional Paternity Leave

  

  In Israel a working woman who gives birth is entitled to 14 weeks of paid maternity leave. By law, since 1998, the father can take some of that time as paternit... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Religious Politics Leading Couples to Divorce

  

  An expression I heard recently is that politics is like mud. Anybody who jumps in, no matter who they are and no matter how great they are, cannot avoid... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Quote of the Day

  

  The process [of the release of terrorists] is underway and an attack here, a stabbing there won't stop the wheels of the process.. Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• My First Time (video)

  

  cute ad.. Just do it! (though I am not) ------------------------------------------------------------- Donate to the Schneider Hospital so I can run the Schneide... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Environmental Protection Minister Amir Peretz at JNF Conference (video)

  

  I am impressed, Minister Amir Peretz's English seems to have gotten much better than I remember it..... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Protest Near Justice Minister's Home: Stop Terrorist Release (video)

  

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  Posted on 28 October 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Meitarim: Uvenucho Yomar (video)

  

  to the tune of We Are the World.. I have no problem with using non-Jewish music and tunes, but plenty of people do.. Seems kind of awkward to have a Michael... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• The Increasing Violence in the Haredi Community

  

  It used to be that whenever the issue would be raised of the lack of general education in the haredi school systems, the haredi response would be that the hared... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Quote of the Day

  

  All of the publications there [in Bet Shemesh] are against me, except for the Parshat Hashavua pages because I did not live in the period of the Tanakh --... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• The Creation of a Segulah

  

  There is an entire industry through which people pay a lot of money to touch or hold, or even just see, items that had been touched or used by someone famous. Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• 90-year-old Jewish Holocaust Survivor Makes Symphony Debut With Yo-Yo Ma (video)

  

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  Posted on 27 October 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Minister Bennet Displays Israelis Companies at Water Conference (video)

  

  there is even a team of religious guys from Machon Lev displaying their invention! ------------------------------------------------------------- Donate to the... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Israel Prayer Home Celebrating Shabbat with Tel Aviv Sunset: Growing Liberal...

  

  it is nice they have a feeling of wanting to connect and do something Jewish, even if in a non-orthodox way.. I wish it was via something more than looking at... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY