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Instead of a flight back to their country of birth, Americans came out to the Tel Aviv embassy on Tuesday to ask for even more action against the hard-right Israeli government → Read More
For years, the message to people on the center-left was that they were not true patriots. But as one protest organizer says, ‘Our flag is blue and white, and we’re not going to let anyone take it from us’ → Read More
'It is from this position of unconditional love and connection that we express our serious concern at the governing coalition’s proposals,' read a joint statement issued by two Jewish organizations in Australia → Read More
Former lawmaker Yael German is already a familiar speaker at the protests against the judicial coup, after returning to Israel a few weeks ago. ‘I’ll do whatever I can to stop this disaster,’ she says → Read More
Despite Israel's top court's decision to upgrade the space designated for egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall, justices expressed frustration with the government for not following through with the decision and for tolerating violence against non-Orthodox Jews at the site → Read More
The Israeli-American Council was criticized by Israelis in the U.S. after releasing a statement saying those protesting the judicial overhaul plans are only providing ‘ammunition for our enemies’ → Read More
Rabbi Rick Jacobs, President of the Union for Reform Judaism, the largest Jewish denomination in the U.S., told tens of thousands that gathered in Tel Aviv that Diaspora Jews had no intention of turning their backs on Israel at this crucial hour ■ 'We’re going to fight for the values of this country alongside all of you' → Read More
For a growing number of Israel’s 1.2 million Russian-speaking immigrants, the government’s efforts to overhaul the judiciary are starting to feel awfully familiar – and making them take to the streets → Read More
Rabbi Rick Jacobs, who has been one of the fiercest critics of the new far-right government in Israel, said that he will be addressing the crowd on Saturday night in Hebrew → Read More
Hundreds of reform rabbis from the U.S. accompanied the Women of the Wall on a procession to protest legislation aimed at effectively blocking the organization's monthly prayer services in the women's section → Read More
An increasingly fierce battle is being fought in Gedera between Orthodox and secular residents over stores opening on Shabbat – offering a microcosm of wider tensions in Israel → Read More
Named after Israel’s first and only female prime minister, the new Golda Meir neighborhood in Gedera was not specifically designated for Orthodox Jews. Indeed, most of the thousand or so families that have moved in over the past few years are secular. → Read More
At least 70,000 protestors, from all walks of life and from all over the country, gathered to highlight the creative and festive aspects of democratic resistance → Read More
'Worst features of populist, anti-liberal democratic parties': Lawyer for Princess Diana and Deborah Lipstadt tells Haaretz he 'recoils' from Netanyahu plan to weaken rule of law just as during the David Irving trial he was asked to 'compromise' on whether six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust → Read More
'Worst features of populist, anti-liberal democratic parties': Lawyer for Princess Diana and Deborah Lipstadt tells Haaretz he 'recoils' from Netanyahu plan to weaken rule of law just as during the David Irving trial he was asked to 'compromise' on whether six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust → Read More
Veterans tell Haaretz how a 31-mile trek in the cold and rain is well worth the effort when Benjamin Netanyahu's government is trying to eviscerate democracy → Read More
The Prayer for the State of Israel is traditionally recited in synagogues during the Shabbat morning service. You would not expect to hear it at a mass demonstration – certainly not one protesting the Israeli government in the heart of secular Tel Aviv. → Read More
Hagai Stadler is no left-winger, but ‘when people start feeling alienated in their own country,’ he says, ‘that can seriously undermine our strength as a nation’ → Read More
The new government has already canceled a reform meant to provide cheaper kosher food, and Netanyahu's promises to his ultra-Orthodox partners could set back rights granted by Israel's courts to religious women → Read More
Israel’s latest government is the most religious in the nation’s 75-year history. Five of its six parties are religious by definition – two are ultra-Orthodox and three are religious Zionist, meaning they combine rigid Orthodoxy with ultranationalism. Of the 64 members of the ruling coalition, half are either Orthodox or ultra-Orthodox. → Read More