INTERMARRIED JEWS ARE NOT VICTIMS OF KIDNAPPERS | 17.09. 2009

Robin Margolis is the Coordinator of the Half-Jewish Network, a rabbinical student at the Rabbinical Seminary International, and currently lives "between" Washington, DC and New York City.

As the Coordinator of the Half-Jewish Network, the largest international organization for adult children and other descendants of intermarriage, I have protested against many ugly attacks on members of interfaith families. But the Masa video released last week - and then withdrawn after a firestorm of protest - shocked even me.

MASA ENDS CONTROVERSIAL CAMPAIGN | 8.09. 2009

Haviv Rettig Gur , THE JERUSALEM POST

Masa ended its controversial Israeli ad campaign early this week after it drew angry reactions from many prominent American writers and even a few Israelis.
Deeming assimilated Diaspora Jewish youth as "lost," the campaign urged Israelis to help Masa connect to these young people "so that we don't lose them," in the words of a television ad that was part of the campaign.

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MORE ISRAELIS CAN OPT FOR CIVIL BURIALS | 18.06.2009

By Nathan Jeffay Haifa, From The Jewish Chronicle

Ludmilla Oigenblick of the Association for the Rights of Mixed Families said: “You often can’t be buried in your own city. People want relations to visit their graves, but if they are buried nowhere near, it is difficult.”

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RABBINICAL JUDGE: MOST IMMIGRANTS SEEKING CONVERSION ARE MISGUIDED | 18.06.2009

By Yair Ettinger, Haaretz Correspondent

A judge of the High Rabbinical Court, Rabbi Avraham Sherman, says that new immigrants who want to be accepted as Jews according to halakha are in the vast majority gentiles who want to convert out of self-interest, and the Orthodox rabbis who want to convert them are suffering from a false and distorted perspective, a lack of understanding of halakha.

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Most Israelis support non-Orthodox, want their taxes to help Diaspora

By HAVIV RETTIG GUR

JPost.com Jun 14, 2009

A majority of Israeli Jews support equality for non-Orthodox religious streams, and two-thirds back government spending to help struggling overseas Jewish communities hurt by the economic crisis, according to a new study.

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Voters: Yisrael Beiteinu failed us

Party's failure to vote for civil marriage bill in Knesset on Wednesday upsets many voters. Association for Rights of Mixed Families head says 'Yisrael Beiteinu has failed yet again, and continues to play its games in the Knesset'

By Yael Levy

ynet, 11.06.09

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PROBLEMS OF MIXED FAMILIES IN ISRAEL:

Results of a Sociological Survey Conducted by the Association for the Rights of Mixed Families in Summer 2008

March 4, 2009

Ludmilla Oigenblick, Ph.D in Sociology
The Association for the Rights of Mixed Families, CEO

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