"The Chief Rabbinate’s policies have no precedent in Jewish law"

Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis · Jan 5, 2023 · 43m

According to a report issued this week by the Israeli Democracy Institute, by 2030, the ultra-Orthodox community in Israel will comprise 16% of the population. Add to that the likely continuing 20% who are Israeli Arabs, and we quickly see that more than a third of Israel’s population will be agnostic, at best, and more likely opposed to the idea of a Jewish state. How long is that sustainable?

And what about the impact of the ultra-Orthodox on the Jewish lives of the Jews who live here? The IDI report, coupled with fundamentalist changes being advocated by certain members of Israel’s new…