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Galilee Diary: Values collide
We hold that the State of Israel was not permitted, by law, to allocate State land to the Jewish Agency for the purpose of establishing the communal settlement of Katzir on the basis of discrimination between Jews and non-Jews.
-Israel Supreme Court decision,
Yoffie On Women of the Wall
Anat Hoffman on Being Interrogated by Police
There must be more than one way to liberate the Western Wall. It's not only a job for paratroopers, a test that ended in the Six Day War of 1967.
Up Against the Wall: Anat Hoffman Interrogated
Progressive Judaism: the Un-"official" Alternative
When my husband and I visited Vienna several times in the 1990s, the gemeinde (official Jewish community) would not publish the schedule of services at the Progressive Congregation Or Chadasch in its communal newspaper or even allow the congregation to buy an
Galilee Diary: Laughter
by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)
Thus said the Lord: Again there shall be heard in this place, which you say is ruined, without man or beast - in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate
Galilee Diary: The Long Arm of the Law
by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)
Judges and officers [shotrim, the word used in modern Hebrew for police] shall you set up in the gates that the Lord your God shall give you for your tribes, and they shall judge
Quick Hit: Arab Israelis
Galilee Diary: Sound the Horn
by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)
If ...[one was walking] with a barrel ahead of one with a beam, and the barrel is broken by the beam, the one with the beam is responsible; and if the one with the barrel stopped