LEGAL ISSUES

UTJ Rejects Charges of Discrimination in Chareidi Schools, Parshas Ki Siso 5770

Tel Aviv Restaurant Slapped with NIS 151,560 Fine for Employing Workers on Shabbos, Parshas Mishpotim 5770

Knesset Foreign Affairs Committee to Discuss Ties Between New Israel Fund and Goldstone Report, Parshas Yisro 5770

Bill to Keep High Court from Interfering in Kashrus, Parshas Voero 5770

High Court Partially Rejects Appeal Against Ramat Beit Shemesh Gimmel Building Tenders, Parshas Shemos 5770

Attorney General Backs Chavilio's Bid to Block Chareidi Education Funding in Jerusalem, Parshas Shemos 5770

Over 100 Rabbonim Oppose High Court Attempt to Force Chief Rabbi to Issue Kashrus Certificate, Parshas Shemos 5770

Court Rejects Reform Attempt to Block Shul Construction in Netanya, Parshas Mikeitz 5770

Kfar Vradim Council Head Appoints Synagogue Supervisor to Thwart Outreach Activities, Parshas Vayishlach 5770

Doctors at Schneider Hospital Refuse to Treat Brain-Dead Girl, Parshas Vayeitzei 5770

Hebrew University Barred from Selling Kiryat Yovel Buildings, Parshas Shoftim 5769

Hebrew U. Cancelled Tender for Two Buildings in Kiryat Yovel After Chareidi Group was Poised to Win, Parshas Voeschanan 5769

New Law Enables Local Authorities to Fund Chinuch Atzmai and Maayan Hachinuch Hatorani Schools, Parshas Voeschanan 5769

UTJ Demands Investigating Committee Form to Look Into Jerusalem Clashes, Parshas Devorim 5769

Downtown Jerusalem Food Market to Be Shut for Violating Shabbos Law, Parshas Mattos-Massei 5769

Germany Drafts Law to Exonerate "Traitors" Against Nazi Rule, Parshas Pinchas 5769

UTJ Tables Bill Requiring Israeli Local Authorities to Provide Basic Services for Chareidi Schools, Parshas Chukas 5769

MK Rabbi Gafni Condemns High Court Decision to Fund Reform Conversion Programs, Parshas Behaalosecho 5769

American RCA "Converts" Loyal Christian, Parshas Bamidbar 5769

High Court Rejects Reform Petition to Freeze Special Bus Lines, Parshas Bamidbar 5769

High Court Rules Reform and Conservative Conversion Programs Should Receive Equal Funding, Parshas Bamidbar 5769

Christian Requests Permit to Open Tel Aviv Store on Shabbos, Parshas Vayakhel-Pekudei 5769

Betzedek Joins Mehadrin Bus Lines High Court Petition, Parshas Ki Siso 5769

Court Says Shmittah "Heter Mechirah" Land Sale Legally Invalid, Parshas Mishpotim 5769

Local Authorities to Stop Funding Water and Electricity at Chareidi Schools, Parshas Beshalach 5769

Best Buy Convicted of Employing Workers on Shabbos, Parshas Voero 5769

New Threat to Shechitah in Europe, Parshas Miketz 5769

Court Orders Peace Now to Apologize and Compensate Settlers, Parshas Vayeishev 5769

Tel Aviv Court Rejects Petition to Close Tiv Taam Market That Operates on Shabbos and Sells Pork, Parshas Vayeishev 5769

Jerusalem: Demolition Orders for 2 Neveh Yaakov Shuls and Construction of Ramat Beit Hakerem Mikveh Halted, Parshas Toldos 5769

Jerusalem Municipality's Legal Advisor Threatens to Stop Funding Bais Yaakov School, Parshas Toldos 5769

Funding for 20 Yeshivos Ketanos Withheld, Parshas Toldos 5769

Vaadat Rabbonim LeInyonei Chinuch to Combat Court Petition Filed Against Talmudei Torah, Parshas Vayeiro 5769

Tel Aviv Authorities Fail to Enforce Tisha B'Av Law, Parshas Voeschanon 5768

Kol Korei Notices from Gedolei Yisroel Not Considered Campaign Contributions, Parshas Devorim 5768

Yeshiva Ketanoh Budget to Continue Despite High Court Criticism, Parshas Massei 5768

British High Court: Secular Court Cannot Rule on Halachic Matters, Parshas Bolok 5767

Judicial Ombudsman Light-Handed — Until HaRav Sherman Issued Ruling, Parshas Chukas 5767

Attorney General Scolded Rabbi Druckman, But No Charges Brought, Parshas Shelach 5767

MK Gafni Demands Judicial Ombudsman Retract Recommendation to Remove Dayan Sherman from Office, Parshas Shelach 5767

High Court Decides Not to Intervene in Jewish Studies Budget at Yeshivos Ketanos, Parshas Behaalosecho 5768

False Conversion, Parshas Behar 5767

Opposition to Justice Ministry's Intervention in Beis Din Decision, Parshas Emor 5768

Letter from HaRav Eliashiv shlita about Brain Death, Parshas Tetzaveh 5768

UTJ Opposes Bill to Disconnect Brain-Dead Patients from Life Support, Parshas Tetzaveh 5768

MK Gafni Says Knesset Would Intervene If Highly Unreasonable Court Rulings Become More Common, Shemos 5768

General Prosecutor: Work and Rest Hours Law Does Not Apply to Kibbutz Stores, Vayeitze 5768

Betzedek Asks Police Why Recommendations Regarding De Hartoch Not Yet Submitted, Rosh Hashana 5768

High Court Rejects Petition to Require Dayanim to Have Law Degree, Parshas Ki Sovo 5767

Justice Minister Working to Introduce Civil Marriage, Parshas Vo'eschanan 5767

Knesset Approves Law Limiting Court Presidents and VPs to One 7-Year Term, Parshas Mattos-Massei 5767

Ashdod Court Denies Autopsy Request, Parshas Bolok 5767

MK Ravitz Presents Proposal to Limit High Court's Authority, Parshas Ki Siso 5767

MK Rabbi Ravitz Proposes Law to Limit High Court's Power, Parshas Voeiro 5767

MK Gafni: Ethical Guidelines for Judges Should Apply to Dayonim, Parshas Shoftim 5766

Ongoing Antichareidi Discrimination at Movement for Quality in Government, Parshas Mattos-Mass'ei 5766

Betzedek Argues Teachers Should be Compensated for Preparing Students for Szold Exams, Parshas Mattos-Mass'ei 5766

Autopsy on Boy Who Drowned in Lake Nitzanim Averted, Parshas Pinchos 5766

Israeli Reform Movement Tries to Disrupt Chinuch Atzmai, Parshas Bolok 5766

Bill would Allow Rabbinate Botei Din to Hear Monetary and Civil Cases, Parshas Chukas 5766

State Prosecutor's Office Does Not Show Up at Meeting on Autopsy of Baby in Ashdod, Parshas Shelach 5766

The Knesset — Barak's Natural Forum, Parshas Beha'aloscha 5766

Judge Refuses to Attend Gathering of Organization Against Rabbinate Botei Din, Parshas Nosso 5766

Barak Draws Political Fire for Remarks on Citizenship Law, Parshas Bamidbar 5766

High Court Upholds Law Allowing Deferments for Yeshiva Students, Parshas Behar/Bechukosai 5766

Haifa Court Prevents Store from Selling Pork, Parshas Tazria-Metzora 5766

Stealing the Gavel from the Judge!, Parshas Vayikra 5766

Stealing the Gavel from the Judge!, Parshas Vayakhel/Pekudei 5766

High Court Forces Housing Ministry to Sell Lots in Ramat Beit Shemesh to Chareidim, Parshas Ki Siso 5766

High Court Forces Housing Ministry to Sell Lots in Ramat Beit Shemesh to Chareidim, Parshas Yisro 5766

Constitution Proposal to Continue in Next Knesset, Parshas Beshalach 5766

Reduction in Number of Local Authorities Refusing to Pay Tuition for Chinuch Atzmai Students, Parshas Voeiro 5766

Interior Ministry Restores Land Allocation Authority to Elected Representatives, Parshas Chayei Soroh 5766

A High Court Opinion that Justifies Discrimination and Hungry Children, Parshas Noach 5766

Beitar Illit Challenges Decision to Exclude the City from Hot Lunch Program, Parshas Noach 5766

Betzedek Petitions to Allow Demonstrations Outside of Missionaries' Homes, Parshas Ki Sovo 5765

Religious Zionist Heads: "We've Lost Our Faith in the High Court", Parshas Ki Seitzei 5765

Beitar Illit Petitions High Court to Include All its Schools in the Hot Lunch Program, Parshas Shoftim 5765

Betzedek Files Petition to Enforce Gafni Law at Local Authorities, Parshas Shoftim 5765

Judge Hila Cohen Convicted of Conduct Unbecoming a Judge, Parshas Eikev 5765

Betzedek Says that Modi'in is Not Authorized to Close Chareidi School, Parshas Massei 5765

Betzedek Demands Kiryat Gat Close Businesses on Shabbos, Parshas Massei 5765

Jerusalem Religious Council Petitions High Court Against Appointment of Rabbonim, Parshas Pinchos 5765

Demand to Disqualify High Court Judge from Hearing Petitions Against Yeshiva Military Deferments, Parshas Bolok 5765

Court Forces Jerusalem Mayor to Assist and Fund Abominable Event Held in the City, Parshas Korach 5765

High Court President Accused of Approving Appointments Without Tenders, Parshas Bechukosai 5765

Chareidi Seminary Teachers Ruled Eligible for Hour Grants and Reimbursements, Parshas Bechukosai 5765

80 Percent of High Court Rulings Inconsistent With Jewish Values, Parshas Metzora 5765

Steps to Stop Court Quickie Conversion Concession, Parshas Tazria 5765

Comments about the High Court Ruling, Parshas Tazria 5765

High Court: Law Against Employing Jews on Shabbos Does not Contradict the Basic Law, Parshas Tazria 5765

Betzedek Files Suit Against Shinui Slush Fund, Parshas Tazria 5765

IDF Quietly Promoting Large-Scale Conversion, Parshas Ki Sovo 5764

High Court Petition Against Education Ministry for Discriminating Against Chareidi Kindergartens, Parshas Eikev 5764

Beyond All Limits, Parshas Chukas 5764

High Court Allows Sale of Pork in Israel, Parshas Korach 5764

High Court Postpones Decision on Recognizing Reform and Conservative Conversion, Parshas Shelach 5764

Betzedek Asks High Court to Transfer Withheld Funding, Parshas Bamidbar 5764

Judge Barak: "Religious Parties are a Minority that Acts Like a Majority", Parshas Vayikra 5764

Lapid to Head Dayanim Appointment Committee, Parshas Beshalach 5764

Widespread Criticism of High Court Power Assertion, Parshas Shemos 5764

The Israel High Court Allows Terrorists' Relatives to be Relocated to Gaza, Parshas Rosh Hashana/Yom Kippur 5763

Under and Above the Law in Israel, Parshas Ki Siso 5762

The High Court Causes Democratic Dysfunction, Parshas Voeiro 5762

Chadera Slaughterhouse Customers Cancel Orders, Parshas Shemos 5762

The Badatz Determines Kashrus, not the Bagatz, Parshas Shemos 5762

The Courts Are Active on Chanukah, Parshas Mikeitz 5762

Federman vs. Barak, Parshas Vayeitzei 5762

Survey: No-Confidence in Israel's Judges, Parshas Vayeitzei 5762

Politica: Peres is Indefatigable, Parshas Nitzavim 5761/Rosh Hashana-Yom Kippur 5762

Jerusalem District Judge Accepts Favors, Parshas Ki Sovo 5761

Observations: High Court President Sees Judges as "Immune to Human Defects", Parshas Ki Seitzei 5761

Observations: Elisheva Barak to Spend Five Weeks in Germany Despite Backlog -- She Just "Happens" to be Barak's Wife, Parshas Pinchos 5761

Rabbi Gafni: "High Court to Blame For Lack of Constitution", Parshas Pinchos 5761

Nine HCJ Judges Tour the Kosel, Parshas Balak 5761

NYS Rights Bill Opposed by Agudath Israel, Parshas Chukas 5761

If this is not Judicial Imperialism, What Is?, Parshas Chukas 5761

Procacia Appointment to High Court Provocation Against Religious Sector, Parshas Chukas 5761

The Fiendish Aim in Feigning Traditional Values, Parshas Nasso 5761

Politica, Parshas Nasso 5761

Aharon Barak Hopes That He Can Design The Future Israeli High Court, Parshas Bamidbar 5761

Justice Barak Attacks Plan to Found Constitutional Court, Parshas Behar/Bechukosai 5761

Justice Barak Expresses Prior Opposition to Draft Deferral Law, Parshas Behar/Bechukosai 5761

Constitutionality of Draft Deferments to be Reviewed by Court, Parshas Behar/Bechukosai 5761

Politica, Parshas Behar/Bechukosai 5761

Israel High Court Declines to Issue Provisional Order Against Draft Deferrals, Parshas Emor 5761

High Court Halts Yeshiva Students' Tax Breaks, Parshas Shmini 5761

Kahalani Found Innocent of any Wrongdoing, Parshas Tzav 5761

Israeli Chief Justice Sees Judges as "Immune to Human Defects", Parshas Tzav 5761

High Court Ignores Police Regulations and Rejects Petition of Religious Policemen, Parshas Vayakhel - Pikudei 5761

High Court Prevents Implementation of Order Forbidding Sale of Treif Meat in Beit Shemesh, Parshas Vayakhel - Pikudei 5761

The Prohibition of Legal Actions in Non-halachic Courts (Arko'os), Parshas Vayakhel - Pikudei 5761

The Facts, the Law and the Judgment of Nochum Korman, Parshas Beshalach 5761

Barak Equivocates: Tells IDF to Prepare Draft Plans and Appoints Committee to "Improve" Tal Law, Parshas Miketz 5761

Justice Cheshin Does not Apologize for Anti-Chareidi Remarks, Parshas Vayeshev 5761

High Court: We Will Not Protect the Rights of the Chareidi Community, Parshas Vayishlach 5761

Exactly the Same, but Oh So Different, Parshas Vayishlach 5761

Torah Draft Deferments in Danger; Chareidi Community Went All-Out to Heed High Court Order, Parshas Vayeitzei 5761

Court Clears Arab Journalist of Encouraging Terror, Convicts Leader of Kach of Sedition, Parshas Toldos 5761

High Court Weighs Women of the Wall Provocation, Parshas Chayei Soroh 5761

Barak and Barak, Ltd., Rosh Hashana-Yom Kippur 5761

Barak and Barak, Ltd., Parshas Nitzavim-Vayeilech 5760

Elyagon Will Not be Promoted, Parshas Ki Seitze 5760

The Judiciary Must be Free of Even an Appearance of Bias, Parshas Ki Seitze 5760

Court Blocks Lev L'Achim Community Center in Rechovot, Parshas Shoftim 5760

Yeshiva Student To Receive NIS 90,000 for Police Beating, Parshas Eikev 5760

Barak Tries to Appoint Elyagon to the Regional Court, Parshas Eikev 5760

Fire Starters, Parshas Vaeschanan 5760

They Blindly Follow the High Court of "Just Us", Parshas Bolok 5760

Proposal Approved to Allow Rabbinical Courts to Hear Cases on Monetary Issues, Parshas Shelach 5760

Gedolei Yisroel Decry Court Intervention in Halocho and Tradition, Parshas Behaaloscha 5760

Judicial System Continues to Undermine Jewish Nature of the State of Israel, Parshas Behaaloscha 5760

High Court Halts Elad Benefits, Parshas Nasso 5760

High Court Justices End Term of Karta Director, Parshas Nasso 5760

Knesset Weighs Bill to Jail Women for Desecrating the Kosel, Parshas Nasso 5760

U.S. Aguda: Kosel Ruling a Travesty, Parshas Bamidbar 5760

Judicial Activism Strikes Again, Parshas Bamidbar 5760

High Court Decision to Force Reform and Conservative Women on the Kosel, Parshas Bechukosai 5760

The Court Fulfilled the Expectations for It, Parshas Kedoshim 5760

Judicial Tyranny, Parshas Pekudei 5760

Chinuch Atzmai Rejects High Court Intervention, Parshas Ki Sisa 5760

How Do We Teach the High Court the Limits?, Parshas Terumah 5760

Barak: Constitution Should Be Enacted Only by Consensus, Parshas Mishpotim 5760

Justice Ministry to Investigate Justice Elyagon's Remarks About a Handicapped Lawyer, Parshas Bo 5760

Basic Law Bill Proposed In Knesset, Parshas Bo 5760

Former Supreme Court Justice Elon Criticizes Barak Court Activism, Parshas Shemos 5760

Barak: Court Has the Right to Abrogate Law and Deal with Values, Parshas Vayechi 5760

U.S. Supreme Court Hears Arguments On Benefits to Religious Schools, Parshas Mikeitz 5760

Secular Legal Expert Assails High, Parshas Vayeshev 5760

MKs Tell High Court To Back Off Contentious Issues, Parshas Vayeshev 5760

The High Court Cannot be Society's Moral Authority, Parshas Vayeshev 5760

The High Court Orders the Religious Affairs Ministry to Change its Criteria and Support the Conservative Movement, Parshas Noach 5760

Only Left Can Undermine the Rule of Law By Changing Basic Law, Parshas Voeschanan 5759

Contempt of Court Indictment Against Attorney Dror Choter- Yishai Canceled, Parshas Bha'alosecho 5759

High Court Removes Hinderences to Marrying Foreigners, Parshas Bamidar 5759

We Support Democracy, Parshas Behar-Bechukosai 5759

Judicial Ethics, Parshas Tzav 5759

Israel Bar Chief Challenges Court, Parshas Vayakhel/Pekudei 5759

Downtown Yerushalayim Drugstore Opens on Shabbos, Parshas Tetzaveh 5759

Aerial Photography Expert Estimates: Only 8,867 People Attended the Leftist Rally in Sacher Park, Parshas Tetzaveh 5759

The Judges Refuse to be Judged, Parshas Terumah 5759

Why Are we Afraid of the Bagatz? -- Important High Court Statistics Complied by Manof

State Prosecutor: No Investigation Against Anti-Religious Am Chofshi, Parshas Terumah 5759

Former High Court Judge: Court Wary of Re-Trials, Parshas Mishpatim 5759

Protecting the Honor of Torah- Observant Jews, Parshas Mishpatim 5759

Dismiss Oded Alyagon : Israeli Judge Unleashes Attack on Those Who Dare to Differ, Parshas Yisro 5759

The German Tradition of the Israeli High Court, Parshas Voeira 5759

Rabbi Meir Porush: "Judges Should be Elected", Parshas Voeira 5759

A Judge in Jerusalem Orders That Non-Jews with Reform and Conservative "Conversions" be Registered as Jews, Parshas Shemos 5759

The Kibbutzim Deceive The Courts, Parshas Vayechi 5759

A Legal Perspective
Attorney About the Decision to Allow Kibbutzim to Work on Shabbos: "The Entire Ruling is Mistaken", Parshas Vayigash 5759

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