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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (220315)2/22/2007 12:42:13 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (4) of 281500
 
The Orthodox Rabbinate has official power in Israel, so only Orthodox conversions are recognized. This is a sore point with Israelis, 85% of whom are secular, and also a sore point with the Israeli government, who understand that implicitly declaring most American Jews not really completely Jewish is not a smart thing to do. So there is a running political battle over the issue. But the Orthodox parties are used having a lot of clout as make-weights in the fractured Israeli parliamentary system, so chipping away at their entrenched power is not easy.
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