25 June 2010
22 June 2010
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ARZA Notebook: From the 36th World Zionist Congress, Our Many Accomplishments (Reform Judaism)
- Overwhelming support to oppose the currently proposed changes in Israeli conversion law that will both negate the Law of Return and prejudice the rights of Jewish communities to act, each in its own way, regarding the conversion process.
- Equal funding for all Jewish religious streams within the WZO budget. This could mean an additional $500,000 for the IMPJ.
- 80% positive support stating that the Government of Israel should recognize all streams of Judaism and their right to perform marriages and conversion in Israel.
- Approved a new requirement that 30% of the membership in all WZO committees, boards, etc. must be women.
Our accomplishments through the resolutions process partially include:
This was the first time that a charedi (ultra orthodox) group joined the WZO. In this case it was the Shas party that represents mostly the Sephardic community and more specifically Moroccan Jews. One of their agenda items at the Congress was to have the concept of Jewish pluralism deleted from the WZO body politic. They proposed resolutions to set up pre conversion institutions in the Diaspora to avoid our congregations and rabbis as well as those of the Conservative movement and modern Orthodox. They proposed that the WZO expend its limited funds on substantial projects in the West Bank to protect ancient Jewish religious sites. They opposed the serious inclusion of women.
Led by our delegation, all of the Shas efforts were soundly defeated. Will this affect Israeli Government policies that we would like to see changed? Perhaps. Our collective actions do, however, put the majority of affiliated Jews on record as being for pluralism, tolerance and the rule of law in a Jewish, civil, democratic state.
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10 June 2010
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Jews, Poles & Nazis: The Terrible History (The New York Review of Books)
- The Warsaw Uprising was a major example of armed Jewish resistance to the Germans during World War II. Indeed, it is quite possible that more people of Jewish origin took part in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 than in the Ghetto Uprising of 1943.
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02 June 2010
01 June 2010
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The percentage of ultra-Orthodox men not working has more than tripled over the past 30 years. In 2008, 65% of Haredi men did not work, compared to only 21% in 1979, reveals the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel in its annual report.
Professor Dan Ben-David, the Taub Center's executive director, said the state's increased allowances and funding for groups including the ultra-Orthodox have enabled them to choose workforce nonparticipation as a lifestyle.
Old is the New Green — To Retrofit or Rebuild (The Times Record > Archives > Features)
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