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Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, In 1998, the Israeli army came to demolish the Shawamreh family home in Anata for the first of seven times, for lack of a permit that Israel was determined not to give them. While I was in another location getting ready for a planned demonstration against home demolitions, a bus on the way diverted to Anata. Two board members of Rabbis For Human Rights, the NGO I directed at the time, were on the bus: Rabbis Ben Hollander z”l and Max Warschawski z”l It was a violent day. Bullets were flying. One young Palestinian lost a kidney. Rabbi Warschawski, the former chief rabbi of Strasberg, and former partisan who fought against the Nazis, was already an elderly man. His worr ....
Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, On the day the “Equality Bill” passed an initial vote in the Knesset, I heard MK Moshe Gafni (A Haredi/ultra-Orthodox party) say on the radio “Judaism is not egalitarian.” I thought that this was outrageous and disturbing, although I understood where he was coming from. While my understanding of Judaism is that there are many legitimate streams of Judaism, his understanding is that there is only one legitimate Judaism, with some relatively minor permissible variations. MK Gafni gave the example that in (his) Judaism, men and women have different roles. In the Haredi world, many fear that codifying equality could lead to the State impinging on their way of ....