Rising Streams: Reform and Conservative Judaism in Israel

• Table of Contents
  • Executive Summary
    • Rights, Freedoms and Access
    • Implications for Policy
  • Introduction
  • Special Thanks
  • Reform and Conservative Jews in Israel: By the Numbers
  • Scope of Infrastructure and Activities
    • Infrastructure
    • Activities
  • Explaining the Discrepancy
    • Societal Differences
    • Israeli Secular Religious Identity
    • Dislike of Orthodox Judaism
    • Growing Exposure to Alternatives
    • Israeli Non-Denominational Religious Identity
  • Changing of the “Synagogue Israelis Don’t Attend” Paradigm
    • Explaining the “Synagogue Israelis Don’t Attend” Paradigm
    • The History of Reform and Conservative Judaism in Israel
    • The “Israelification” of Reform and Conservative Judaism
    • Jewish Renewal
    • A New Israeli Judaism?
    • Changing the “The Synagogue Israelis Don’t Attend” Paradigm
  • Profile of Reform and Conservative Jews in Israel
  • Attitudes to Jewish Pluralism and the Reform and Conservative Movements in Israel
  • Political Influence and Affiliation
  • Budgets
    • Access to Public Funding
  • Legal Status and Limitations of the Reform and Conservative Movements
    • Conversion (Giyur)
    • Mikvehs
    • Marriage and Divorce
    • The Western Wall – Kotel
    • Access to the Public Education System
    • Burial
  • Implications for Policy
  • Appendix: Notes on Terminology
  • Endnotes