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The proposal was submitted to parliament in the wake of a ruling by Israel’s Supreme Court ordering the government to allow a mixed-gender prayer space at the Western Wall.
The ruling “ensures parents, not government bureaucrats, have the final say in how their children are raised,” Eric Baxter, senior counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, stated.
The court agreed with the state that “it was premature to decide the law’s constitutionality before it had been enacted.”
An Israel Police spokesman confirmed to JNS that the holiest site for the Jewish people will be open to Jews between 6:30 and 11:30 a.m. daily.
Growing opposition to Israel on the political right is “serious, but thank God, it’s not really an evangelical problem,” Rev. Johnnie Moore told JNS.
The retelling of David’s story should encourage Jews worldwide “not to be intimidated in the face of antisemitic violence and threats,” FOX Nation’s Jonathan Towers told JNS.
“Ramadan is not Israel Police versus Arab Muslims; the Israel Police is made up of people of all religions,” a police spokesperson said.
“We could never have even contemplated a project like this, on this scale, without the development of large language models,” Michael Satlow told JNS.
“It is extraordinarily moving to witness a manuscript of this magnitude continue its journey with such strength,” stated Sharon Liberman Mintz, international senior Judaica specialist at Sotheby’s.
Some 22,000 women from 30 countries are completing a two-year cycle of daily biblical study called Nach Yomi.
“It’s a very severe question, a very grave question,” Rabbi Daniel Feldman told JNS. “It has to be looked at very, very carefully. With an eye toward both justice and fairness and protecting the innocence of society overall.”
“We were able to read certain sources against the grain to extract women’s voices or women’s experiences,” Debra Kaplan, coauthor of the new book “A Woman Is Responsible for Everything,” told JNS.
