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Tag Archives: advocacy council
2009 Official Israeli Rabbinate Report on State of Jewish Divorce
Gadi Pickholz emails: The Israel Father’s Rights Advocacy Council applauds the Chief Rabbinate and the National Bet Din of the Israeli Rabbinical Courts for publication yesterday of the most definitive and scientific analysis of the State of Jewish Divorce yet … Continue reading
Posted in Divorce
Tagged advocacy council, anglo saxon, couples therapy, fault divorce, jewish divorce, jewish divorces
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Agunah Hysteria?
Gadi Pickholz (of the Israel Fathers Rights Advocacy Council) emails: Rabbi Eli Ben Dahan, Chairman of the Rabbinical Batei Din of Israel (official government Batei Din) contradicts assertions of Aguna hysteria and absurdly inflated numbers of claimed Agunot, as well … Continue reading
Posted in Divorce
Tagged advocacy council, divorce proceedings, fundraising initiatives, legal advocacy, religious jews, statistical accuracy
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Aliyah Numbers Way Down
Gadi Pickholz from the Israel Fathers Rights Advocacy Council emails: The Israeli government official report on Aliya was issued today for 2008. 2008 marked the lowest level of Aliya in Israeli history since 1948, with less than 5% the Olim … Continue reading
Posted in Israel
Tagged advocacy council, fathers rights, israeli history, jewish philanthropy, pr machine, senior citizens
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Rabbinic Corruption
Gadi Pickholz from the Israel Fathers Rights Advocacy Council emails: "Luke: Just over 50% of all cases before Israel’s rabbinic courts are appealed, and just over 65% of those appeals are found valid. Yet in the US, both the RCC … Continue reading
Posted in Rabbis
Tagged administrative offices, administrative procedures, advocacy council, civil courts, comptroller, computerized system, conflict of interest, counterparts, court administration, court rulings, divorce decree, fathers rights, infallability, judicial proceedings, petah tikva, pulpits, quot, rabbinate, RCA, RCC
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You Are Not Jewish
Gadi Pickholz from the Israel Fathers Rights Advocacy Council writes: Luke: While you waste your time writing nonsense because of a lack of knowledge of what is really going on in Judaism, let me inform you of two major historic … Continue reading
Posted in Conversion
Tagged advocacy council, akiva, chief rabbi, conversions, cowards, english translations, fathers rights, Judaism, lack of knowledge, metropolitan tel aviv, Modern Orthodox, orthodox rabbis, pretense, pulpit, rabbinate, RCC, rishon lezion, rude awakening, scandelous, sermons
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RCC Divorces
Gadi Pickholz from the Israel Fathers Rights Advocacy Council writes: We will have a full statement and formal report published before Pesach, Gd willing, but IFRAC can confirm that the statement at the bottom of the RCC website claiming that … Continue reading
Posted in RCC
Tagged aba, advocacy council, american rabbis, arrest warrants, bet, classic case, crosshairs, fathers rights, fundamental concern, inevitable outcome, Kashrut, local community, marriage ceremonies, misrepresentation, monopoly, qualms, rabbinate, rcc website, regulatory organization, rewrite
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Re: Rav Daniel Arnall, Rav Abner Weiss
Gadi Shapiro ([email protected]) emails from the Israel Fathers Rights Advocacy Council about this post: Rav Daniel Arnall is not only one of the brightest intellectual rabbinic lights among the modern orthodox in LA (whenever I needed to borrow a copy … Continue reading
Posted in Abner Weiss, Daniel Arnall
Tagged Abner Weiss, advocacy council, american population, arnall, arnell, Beth Jacob, fathers rights, gadi, gmail, halachic decisions, ifrac, intelligent approach, last decade, Modern Orthodox, modernity, public apology, rav, RCC, rich elite, YICC
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