Monthly Archives: April 2016

Pesach Greeting from the Chair of the WZO’s Dept. of Diaspora Affairs

Please click on this link to read a most interesting Pesach message from the Head of the World Zionist Organisation’s Department of Diaspora Activities. https://www.facebook.com/1610413212581807/photos/a.1639866999636428.1073741828.1610413212581807/1708004372822690/?type=3&theater

2017-08-10T12:08:51+10:00April 19th, 2016|Past News|

Jerusalem Municipality to fund pluralist and non-Orthodox religious study groups

The Jerusalem Municipal Council on Thursday authorized for the first time the direct financial support of pluralist and non-Orthodox educational organizations, causing consternation among the council’s haredi representatives.

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2017-08-10T13:56:44+10:00April 4th, 2016|Past News|

Wars of the Jews, 21st century edition

Israel ruled that the state must recognize private conversions to Orthodox Judaism that are conducted outside the framework of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate, meaning that a person of non-Jewish birth showing up at Israel’s Interior Ministry with a certificate of conversion issued by any rabbi belonging to the Orthodox stream of Judaism will henceforth be registered as a Jew. 

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2017-08-10T13:57:00+10:00April 4th, 2016|Past News|
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