Jewish Religion and Thought
Attorney and activist Itamar Ben Gvir called his court victory “a gift to the Jewish people on the eve of Israel’s 70th Independence Day.”
At the notable age of 70, a newly published Israel Bible shows that Tanach remains the central deed to the Jewish people’s claim on Eretz Yisrael.
“I have said in the past and I will say it again, what’s happening in Syria is genocide of women and children in its cruelest form, using weapons of mass destruction,” said Israel’s Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef.
In expressing its grievances, Jordan said that “Israel is violating the status quo in the area and is carrying out extreme provocations that harm relations between our two countries.”
A group of rabbis, deans and teachers express concern over military policies they feel are not commensurate with Jewish values.
Observant young men and women tackle secular subjects while maintaining their lifestyle, opening doors into careers within the general workplace.
The Masorti (Conservative) Movement in Israel, the Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism, and the Women of the Wall prayer rights group brought a petition to Israel’s High Court of Justice.
Salt and pepper, peanut butter and jelly, Zionism and progressivism. Few question the inherent, irrefutable bond between the first two of those pairs, but civil-rights attorney and co-founder of the Zioness Movement, Amanda Berman, argues that the latter is just as natural—and she has several thousand left-leaning Jews with strong Zionist identities backing her up on that sentiment.
The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism has severed ties with the longtime director of United Synagogue Youth (USY) after receiving “multiple testimonies” that corroborated an allegation of sexual abuse. Allegations about Jules Gutin, who in 2011 completed his tenure as international director of USY and since 2012 had conducted tours of Poland for the Conservative movement’s youth arm, first came to light through a Facebook post by a man who claimed that someone who worked with thousands of teens had abused him in the 1980s. JNS communicated with that man as well as several others who alleged that they were underage victims of unwanted sexual touch by Gutin during the same decade.
