Rabbi Miri Gold at Oak Park Temple

Religious Freedom in Israel:
Making it a Reality, Not an Ideal
Sunday evening, October 21st
at Oak Park Temple
7:00 p.m. talk followed by dessert

Rabbi Miri Gold is an Israeli Reform rabbi at Kehilat Birkat Shalom, a regional Reform synagogue based at  Kibbutz Gezer. Under a ruling by the Israel Attorney General in May, Rabbi Gold will be the first non-orthodox rabbi to be paid by the State of Israel. This success comes after a six year fight by the Israel Religious Action Center in the Israeli Supreme Court. Rabbi Gold will discuss religious pluralism and women’s rights in Israel and why this matters to all of us as Reform Jews. 

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Israeli News Club

Monthly discussion of Israeli newspapers

• What people think
  
• What people do not think
  
• What are the fights about
  

First meeting February 5, 2012 at 12 PM
ARZA committee is inviting everybody to participate in an Israeli News Club that will meet monthly on the first or second Sunday of each month. The goal of the club is to discuss articles in Israeli newspapers, HaArez, Jerusalem Post, Maariv and others. For every meeting, we will choose 3-5 articles on most important and controversial topics in Israeli press and email the links to all the participants on the weekend before the meeting. If you would like to be included in this mailing list, please send your email to Irena Levitan: Irena.Levitan@gmail.com
http://www.haaretz.com/
http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Home.aspxplease see the following list of several articles from Ha-Arez on two major topics in Israeli news - the nucler threat of Iran and recent Israeli-Palestininan talks - all articles are very short, less than one page.

We could also talk about some other topics that have been in the front news - Primaries for Likud and Kadima, Women segregation in Orthodox population and protests against Tal law that allows orthodox jews not to serve in the army

These are just suggestions, though, - the goal is to discuss anything we want that we heard/read in Israeli news.
Iran:

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• Barak: World must act against Iran before it's too late
  
• Barak reveals Israel's considerations for possible attack on Iran By Amos Harel
  
• Ex-IDF chief says Israel must be prepared to act alone on Iran By Barak Ravid

• 'Senior IDF officer told cabinet Israel cannot stop Iran's nuclear program'
• Peres: Iran is the most morally corrupt nation on Earth
  

Israel-Palestinian talks:

• Israel presents the Palestinians with its stance on borders
  
• In rare court appearance, Marwan Barghouti calls for a peace deal
  
• based on 1967 lines  By Avi Issacharoff
  
• New Israeli search method at West Bank checkpoint worries
  
• Palestinians By Amira Hass

• PA official: Palestinians to rule on fate of Israel peace talks in days By Avi Issacharoff

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