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Study: Russian-speaking immigrants moving further right on Israeli political spectrum |06.07.2011
Former-USSR immigrants polled also say they feel more at home in Israel.
By Gili Cohen
Immigrants from the former Soviet Union who came to Israel in the 1990s are moving further to the right of the political spectrum, even as they increasingly feel part of Israeli society, according to a new poll.
Israel must grant all citizens the right to civil marriage |06.07.2011
The radicalization of the rabbinical establishment have led to a situation where the status of women - on issues of marriage, property rights, child custody and divorce - is swiftly deteriorating.
Haaretz Editorial
 In Israel, Many Russians View Conversion Bill With a Shrug | 10.08.2010
‘There Is Not Much of a Struggle For Civil Rights,’ Says One Expert
By Nathan Jeffay, Forward.com
A Question of Identity: Lila Itskov, left, has lived in Israel for 10 years — and refuses to consider conversion.
Tel Aviv — Amid the din of Diaspora and Israeli voices shouting to be heard in July during a heated intercontinental debate over a proposed Knesset bill on Jewish conversion, it was easy to miss the silence of one major stakeholder in the legislation: the non-Jewish immigrants to Israel from the former Soviet Union, on whose behalf the legislation was actually created.
Their absence from the conversion debate is no coincidence, and it stems from two characteristics of this group, Israeli experts say. For the most part, the immigrants are not interested in converting. And despite the discrimination this imposes on their lives as Israeli citizens when it comes to life passages such as marriage and death, there is little appetite for activism among FSU immigrants to bring about changes to their status.
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 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 But the Masa video released last week - and then withdrawn after a firestorm of protest - shocked even me.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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