Tag: Gilad Kariv

Likud needs Orbach’s services not only through the demise of the 24th Knesset but during the months leading up to the 25th.

Earlier this week, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met and supported the leaders of the Reform movement in Israel and the Diaspora.

Reform & Conservative conversions gain tremendous legal ground under this bill.

In 2020, Google turned over information on close to 1,000 users, compared to only 200 in 2015 – a 500% jump in 5 years.

It comes down to whether or not individuals in appointed high office are at liberty to go out of their way to criticize the government from which they draw their power.

Nine MKs were instructed to enter quarantine after being exposed to a Knesset Channel reporter who was diagnosed with Corona, possibly the Omicron strain.

Meanwhile, the right-wing parties have discovered that the Kotel is a surefire issue to get the masses out.

Turns out the Haredim are not the only religious Israelis who can game the system.

What's religious about holding up empty Torah covers by the Kotel? It's a purely political act.

Last spring, MK Ben-Gvir was not a commentator on the news – he was the news.

The most combative among the incoming team was undoubtedly the next Minister of Religious Services (Bennett's old job) Matan Kahana from Yamina.

The coming diaspora minister will be Labor MK Gilad Kariv who is both a Reform clergy and the executive director of the Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism.

The current breakdown of the Judicial Appointments Committee leans is in favor of the activists by 5 to 4 at best. Shaked is aiming to reverse this by replacing one leftist vote – Michaeli.

In 1845 the Reform movement removed references to Palestine and a "Jewish State" from prayers.

The final approval of the resolution, is conditioned on its approval by the organization's board of directors which postponed its vote until after the March 23 election.

The state's representative, attorney Avi Milikovsky, added that it would be possible to hold a military funeral without religious symbols and to excise content such as reading the Kaddish and the Psalms, and adding alternative content.

WOW demanded the use of the PA system. Needless to say, the request – which was tantamount to asking firefighters for a light – was rejected by Rabbi Rabinovitch.

For people who become mortally hurt when this or that Orthodox politician tells them they're not really Jewish, heaping on their heads advice as to how they should improve – US Jews are surprisingly unrestrained when it comes to meddling in the coalition politics of a foreign country.

If Jews had the ability to ignore religious provocation when they saw one, we'd still have the Second Temple, if not the First.

Alas, this dispute is not over a connection to God but over political turf, both regarding the Kotel and the conversions.

Kariv called the MKs' behavior vulgar and said it undermines the principles of the legislative process, as well as the public and ethical obligations of MKs.

For sure, there is no "direct connection" between the book, Torat HaMelech, and the youth who carried out the vicious attack on an Arab in Zion Square although since the trial hasn't begun, we really do not know much, neither I nor the Reform Rabbi. A Rabbi, by the way, would steer clear of such an accusation, especially during the Ten Days of Penitence. But "concentration camps"?

The head of the Reform movement in Israel was ejected from a discussion on state funding for non-Orthodox rabbis Tuesday. Gilad Kariv, a Reform rabbi...