{"id":10730,"date":"2018-10-29T10:09:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T08:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2018\/10\/29\/rabbi-david-stav-state-and-religion-in-israel"},"modified":"2018-10-29T10:09:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T08:09:12","slug":"rabbi-david-stav-state-and-religion-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2018\/10\/29\/rabbi-david-stav-state-and-religion-in-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabbi David Stav: State and Religion in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"embed\"><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/skgWoPVDTgU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em>Produced on the eve of the Jewish New Year in 2014, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/skgWoPVDTgU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this video (05:35)<\/a> features <a href=\"https:\/\/tzohar-eng.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rabbi David Stav<\/a> summarizing religion-state issues in Israel over the past year. He refers to efforts to pass bills that break the ultra-Orthodox monopoly\u00a0on marriage and conversion in order to expose Israelis to a relevant\u00a0and meaningful Judaism, as opposed to one that is imposed upon them by law. Rabbi Stav notes that many secular Israelis\u00a0harbor a deep thirst for authentic Judaism, while feeling estranged from Jewish rituals. In a message to Jews all over the world, Rabbi Stav claims that the future of the Jewish people depends on the strength of the State of Israel. Rabbi Stav is Chairman\u00a0of <a href=\"https:\/\/tzohar-eng.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tzohar<\/a>, an organization of over 800 Religious Zionist Orthodox rabbis in Israel that aims to bridge the gaps between religious and secular Jews in Israel.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Produced on the eve of the Jewish New Year in 2014, this video (05:35) features Rabbi David Stav summarizing religion-state issues in Israel over the past year. He refers to efforts to pass bills that break the ultra-Orthodox monopoly\u00a0on marriage and conversion in order to expose Israelis to a relevant\u00a0and meaningful Judaism, as opposed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":10731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[2548],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10730\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=10730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10730\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13556,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10730\/revisions\/13556\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10731\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=10730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=10730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=10730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}