Dorit Rabinyan, author of the novel Gader Haya (Borderlife)

Education Ministry Bans Novel Depicting Arab-Jewish Love

Knesset members from Hadash expressed outrage on Wednesday evening, December 30, following reports that the Education Ministry has decided to disqualify a novel depicting a romance between an Israeli woman and a Palestinian man from being taught in Israeli high schools. Dorit Rabinyan’s book Gader Haya (“Living Fence,” but published in its English translation under…

Secular Jews in Israel Dissatisfied with State’s Religious Policy

A recent survey has found that 95% of secular Jewish respondents in Israel are dissatisfied with the extreme-right government’s handling of religious issues, with large majorities favoring civil marriage or civil unions and official recognition of non-Orthodox conversions. That’s one of the findings of an annual survey of Israeli religious identification and attitudes toward religious…