Guy Leshem
By Guy Leshem
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News Reform Rabbi Sues Israel for State Salary, In Latest Bid To End Orthodox Monopoly
TEL AVIV — In one of the strongest challenges ever to Orthodox religious dominance, an American-born Reform rabbi who serves a kibbutz of mostly American immigrants has petitioned Israel’s Supreme Court to demand a state salary as a municipal rabbi. The suit, submitted to the court this week by the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism,…
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News Palestinians Destroy Synagogues in Gaza
TEL AVIV — Monday’s dramatic scenes of synagogues being vandalized and, in some cases, destroyed by Palestinians in Gaza reminded Oded Tira of Israel’s pullout from the Sinai Desert nearly a quarter-century ago. Tira, a retired brigadier general in the Israeli army, was in charge of the 1982 evacuation of Yamit, the last Jewish settlement…
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News After Gaza Pullout, Religious Zionists Talk of Crisis
TEL AVIV — Thousands of people arrived in Jerusalem last week to accompany the coffins of 14 former residents of the Gush Katif settlement bloc in Gaza as they were reburied in the capital’s Mount of Olives cemetery. Yisrael Meir Lau, former chief rabbi of Israel, addressed the mourners. “We brought 14 of the Gush…
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News Jewish Terror Wave Puts Israel on Alert
TEL AVIV — Shortly after 3 a.m., on the evening of August 19, a resident of Rehovot called the local fire department station to report a fire in a nearby field. Then a neighbor reported a strong smell of gas coming from below his apartment. The firemen who rushed to the scene, about 15 miles…
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