I've been getting a lot of questions about my views on religion and state in Israel since this past Saturday night, when Israel's Channel 2 News interviewed me for a story on Orthodox rabbis who officiate at weddings not under Rabbanut auspices (and TOI followed up with an article that makes it look far riskier than it is). I've also been asked to write a manifesto of sorts on my religion-state views; someone's even talking about a book project.
Either way, here is a list of articles and blog posts that I've written on the subject over the past 8-9 years for various outlets. Meanwhile, I'll get working on that manifsto:
Jewish Review of Books
Why I defy the Israeli Chief Rabbinate
https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/1917/why-i-defy-the-israeli-chief-rabbinate/
Halakha and State: An Exchange
https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/2056/halakha-and-state-an-exchange/
Mida
http://mida.org.il/2015/06/25/
(Hebrew version)
The Myth of the Conversion Crisis
http://mida.org.il/2015/05/22/
Why Rabbi Goren Matters: The Legacy of the Langers
http://mida.org.il/2015/02/06/
Elazar Stern's Conversion Bill: Bad for Religion, Bad for the State, Bad at Math
http://mida.org.il/2014/04/07/
(Hebrew version)
Moment
http://www.momentmag.com/
Jerusalem Post
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/
Jewish Ideas Daily
http://www.jewishideasdaily.
Tal Tales
http://www.jewishideasdaily.
Yair Lapid's Religion
http://www.jewishideasdaily.
New York Jewish Week
http://www.thejewishweek.com/
Does the US now have a Chief Rabbinate?
Regime Change, Realpolitik, and the Rabbanut
http://www.thejewishweek.com/
Middle Class Rising? (not about religion and state per se, but touches on it)
http://www.thejewishweek.com/
Not all Orthodox Rabbis Oppose Civil Marriage in Israel
http://www.thejewishweek.com/
A Gaon in Every Sense (an obit for Rav Ovadia)
http://www.thejewishweek.com/
Intermountain Jewish News (cross-posted to TOI)
A Jewish Holiday and a Civic Dilemma
http://blogs.timesofisrael.
Book Chapter
Perversion of the Priesthood: The Decline and Fall of the House of Eli
https://www.academia.edu/
https://www.academia.edu/
TOI Blog Posts
Why Israelis don't Realize that Martin Luther King Jr. was Religious
http://blogs.timesofisrael.
http://blogs.timesofisrael.
A Pilot Plan for Reorganizing the Rabbinate
http://blogs.timesofisrael.
Same-sex Unions and Intermarriage: Against as a Jew, For as a Citizen
http://blogs.timesofisrael.
An Ironic Observation on Freedom of Religion at Israel's Holiest Site
http://blogs.timesofisrael.
Personal Blog Posts
Will Tzohar Declare War on the Rabbanut?
http://adderabbi.blogspot.co.
http://adderabbi.blogspot.co.
On Tzohar Rabbis Accepting Pay to Officiate Weddings
http://adderabbi.blogspot.co.
The High Court's Decision on Heter Mechira
http://adderabbi.blogspot.co.
Conversion Collision Course
http://adderabbi.blogspot.co.