April 10 2016
In this article it talks about the new generation of Judaism. There is less attention to asking people like a rabbi for help for most young people. It also addresses the aspect of the Israeli government changing. People are not going along with Heredi part of the government anymore. This can be viewed as a good thing and a bad thing. The way you view this article can vary on what you believe. Our generation is constantly changing so thats why this article was written. Because of this change we have the ability in Israeli politics to form a new set of values. People are not necessarily able to change the laws but it can be something powerful, the more reform some things come could be viewed as a more open society. If the people feel that going to someone like a rabbi for advice is not necessary to them then it isint. Overall this article addresses the fact that the powerful changes that the modern society can have
The face of the decline of Israeli rabbinical hegemony is not per say the lack of the new generation's reliance on religion, but the diminishing legitimacy and influence of the ultra-Orthodox party, which for decades has had "a stranglehold on Judaism in Israel". While it is true that progressivism has veered away from the rabbinate in politics, the leading causes for this decline has stemmed directly from within the movement itself. With most of the important and influential rabbis dead, new reforms are tearing the new recruits' power to shreds, and democracy makes religion less and less welcome. The current situation was bound to happen: the separation of church and state has always been inevitably requested, and it is only now that it begins to take foot in the nation of Israel, a theocracy for millennia.
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