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32 Friday, December 17, 1976
Conservative Rabbis Permitted to Perform Weddings in Israel
NEW YORK (JTA) —
The World Council of
Synagogues, which held
its Biennial Convention
in Jersualem last month,
scored a major break-
through when the Israeli
government announced
last week that Conserva-
tive rabbis will be allowed
to perform weddings in
Israel.
David Zucker, newly
elected president of the
World Council, the inter-
national organization of
Conservative congrega-
tions, said, "We welcome
this positive step to-
ward our objective of full
and equal rights for our
rabbis in Israel."
government's
The
announcement came sev-
eral days after the bien-
nial convention con-
cluded. It represented a
concession to demands by
the Independent Liberal
Party that recognition be
granted to the non-
Orthodox branches of
Judaism in Israel.
Zucker said that while
the accomplishment was
the result of political pres-
sures within Israel's coali-
tion government, the cli-
mate for it was created by
the presence of the repre-
sentatives of Conservative
Jewry in Jerusalem.
The problems of Con-
servative congregations
in Israel were fully aired
among the delegates to
the convention.
They adopted a resolu-
tion calling on the gov-
ernment, the Israeli
Chief Rabbinate and the
local religious authorities
to "permit all rabbis of
Conservative congrega-
tions in Israel to officiate
freely with the same
rights, authority and full
recognition as Orthodox
congregational rabbis,"
Zucker said.
The right to perform
weddings was offically
granted Conservative
rabbis by Religious Af-
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servative rabbis have
been permitted to per-
form marriages on an ad
hoc basis. Authorization
was granted to six Con-
servative rabbis by local
religious councils but this
did not constitute recog-
nition by all religious
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just accorded the Conser
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Halakha. He said that
would constitute dis-
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fairs Minister Yitzhak
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Religious Party which,
like the ILP, is a coalition
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The weddings must be
performed according to
Halakha and the couples
must be certified by the
local religious authorities
as eligible to marry.
According to reports
from Jeruslaem, Raphael
asked that his concession
be kept secret so as not to
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cles.
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Orthodox rabbinate.
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