Rachel Liel

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Ultra Orthodox men stop bus because Tanya Rosenbilt refuses to move to the back (Photo: Tanya Rosenbilt)

A call to support the Orthodox majority opposing extremism

In the struggle within the Orthodox Jewish community between reactionaries who use Judaism as a weapon against democracy, and modernists whose worldview is based on integrating the two, the reactionaries have been the dominant voice – but the silent majority is starting to raise its own. By Rachel Liel It cannot be easy to be…

By +972 Magazine January 18, 2012

Threats to Israeli democracy, tolerance gather momentum

If the threat against Israeli democracy is not recognized and opposed, it will gather momentum until inevitably, one of democracy’s vital organs – tolerance, enshrined in law, for minority groups and minority opinions – will cease to function. By Rachel Liel One thing on which virtually all Israelis, from right to left, can agree is…

By +972 Magazine November 14, 2011