Gilad Kariv

The writer is an MK for Israel's Labor Party and the CEO of the Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism.

 SOCIAL EQUALITY and Women’s Advancement Minister May Golan attends a meeting of the Knesset plenum earlier this year. Recently, she delivered an address in which she sought to defend Michael Ben-Ari, an avowed Meir Kahane supporter who was disqualified from running for the Knesset.

'Enough': How we must stand against Kahanism in the Israeli Knesset - opinion

Participants carry Israeli flags at the 'Celebrate Israel'' parade along Fifth Avenue in New York City in 2017

Celebrate Israel Parade: Jews come together in New York - opinion

Women in Hitech as percent of the EmployeesRabbi Floriane Chinsky with tefllin and tallit

Breaking the glass ceiling


Plan to deport African migrants goes against Jewish and democratic values

It is clear that the growing public opposition to the government plan is based on firm principles.

African migrants painted in white hold signs during a protest against the Israeli government's plan to deport part of their community, in front of the Rwandan embassy in Herzliya, Israel

Protect workers, and the majority’s desire to celebrate their own Shabbat

As we enter the eighth decade of Israel’s independence, we must find solutions for many issues related to religion and state

A MINI-MARKET in Jerusalem. (Marc Israel Sellem/The Jerusalem Post)

It’s time to show a little fairness

I wish that Israeli governments would make half of that journey when it comes to the State of Israel’s attitude and treatment of Judaism’s non-Orthodox streams.

American Jews marching in New York with Israeli flags. How can we bridge the divide between Israel and the Diaspora?

Yom Kippur lessons the prime minister fails to remember

Benjamin Netanyahu: prime minister, prime sinner.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a cabinet meeting

Weeping over the wall

It is time to liberate the Kotel for all Jewish people.

Members of Women of the Wall at a prayer service at the Kotel in 2013

A major milestone

The High Court of Justice ruling recognizing private Orthodox conversions redefines the boundaries of public discourse in Israel on religion and state.

Protester holds a poster demanding equal rights for all Jews

Who‘s afraid of Reform Judaism?

The furor following Religious Services Minister David Azoulay’s outburst proves that Reform and Conservative Judaism have broken free of their slave chains.

Religious Services Minister David Azoulay

A plea for separation of religion and state

'We shall keep our priests within the confines of their temples... as we shall keep our professional army within the confines of their barracks' – Theodor Herzl

Herzl 300

A time for reform

The time for the Orthodox monopoly in Israel is running out.

Sea of haredi men 370