Channel 20, dedicated to Jewish tradition and spirituality, will pay $27,000 in fines
Recent events—from Pride in Beersheba to Netanyahu scrapping plans for an egalitarian prayer space at the Kotel—serve as a reminder to fight for the Israel you want to see
American Jewish groups need to broaden their Israeli coalition and work with sympathizers in the government, rather than engage in satisfying but counterproductive hard-sell tactics
‘If people continue to stand at this podium and try to push Reform and Conservative Jews out of the people of Israel, we will lose the majority of the Jewish world’
The city’s move marks the latest crack in Israel’s Orthodox monopoly
Israeli leader also accuses settlers of ‘a distortion of the essence of Judaism’
Originally the brainchild of an American Jew and an Arab Israeli, now a model for a small but growing educational trend
Asher Lopatin succeeds Avi Weiss at an influential seminary, offering a pluralistic version of Orthodoxy