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IRAC occupies a unique place in the social and religious landscape of Israel, infusing social justice advocacy with the spiritual energy and humane worldview of Progressive Judaism. IRAC, the public and legal advocacy arm of the Reform Movement in Israel, was founded in 1987 with...

A Fight to Make the Wall More Inclusive

Hillary Brenhouse TIME Magazine August 12, 2010 Last month former Jerusalem city councilor Anat Hoffman, a brightly colored prayer shawl draped about her neck like a scarf, took a stand. Backed by a band of dancing, chanting, clapping women and the mound of stones that is Judaism's most revered shrine, the Western Wall, or Kotel, she cradled a heavy Torah scroll. In moments, a YouTube video testifies, the Israeli police were there, pleading with her to abandon the holy book. When she refused, they made attempts to pry it from her arms.

Rabbinate's new Jewish ID stymieing marriage plans, immigrants say

By Raphael Ahren, Haaretz, August 2 2010 Immigrants applying for marriage licenses are being asked by local rabbinical courts to produce ritual wedding contracts from their parents, grandparents and great-grandparents or other often unattainable documents to prove their Jewishness, Anglo File has learned.

Women want female rabbinic head

By Jonah Mandel, Jerusalem Post, August 2 2010 Women’s and social advocacy groups filed a petition to the High Court of Justice on Wednesday against Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman, demanding that he clarify why a woman wouldn’t be able to vie for the position of director of the rabbinical courts.

Secular woman tells of attacks on 'segregated' buses

By Dan Izenberg, Jerusalem Post, July 28 2010 The High Court of Justice on Tuesday heard the conflicting requests of the petitioners and the state in the petition protesting the gender-separated bus lines operated by the Egged and Dan bus cooperatives and said it would hand down its ruling soon.

Haredim reject conversion bill freeze

By Jonah Mandel, Jerusalem Post, July 26 2010 The agreement for an all-around moratorium on the legal actions that could change the status-quo of conversions in Israel seems to be accepted only by the liberal Jewish groups, while Shas and United Torah Judaism, who supported MK David Rotem's Conversion Bill in its recent Law Committee vote, were not part of such a deal. Rotem too said that he was not part of any such understandings.

The Pluralist

The Newsletter from the Israel Religious Action Center.
Including letters from the Executive Director, Anat Hoffman, pluralism success stories, and the major Israeli news of the day on the issue of religion and state.

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