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Reform Movement
Alleges Funding Bias

Jerusalem (JTA) — A peti-
tion filed this week with the
Supreme Court alleges bias
against the Reform Move-
ment in the Religious Af-
fairs Ministry's funding of
Jewish cultural programs.
The case - represents a
milestone in the history of
religious pluralism in
Israel," said Rabbi Uri
Regev, head of the Religious
Action Center of Israel,
which filed the petition on
behalf of the Israel Move-
ment for Progressive
Judaism.
About six months ago, the
Progressive Movement ap-
plied for 120,000 shekels,
the equivalent of about
$40,000, for its Jewish
cultural programs for new
immigrants as well as its
"informal education" pro-
grams, such as bar and bat
mitzvah classes and youth
movements.
Since then it has received
no funding and no explana-
tion for the lack of funding.
The movement suspects dis-
crimination because it is a
non-Orthodox institution,
said attorney Anat Ben-Dor.
"We believe it is because
our religious denomination
is unpopular in the min-
istry," she said.
Ministry spokesmen could
not be reached for comment
on the petition's allegations.
Ms. Ben-Dor said it is
difficult to protest discrim-
ination because there is no
public access to information
on the ministry's budget and
allocations.
The secrecy precludes
public criticism of the min-
istry's administration of
public funds and also
prevents applicants and the
public from being able to
identify discrimination, she
said.
Rabbi Regev thinks that of
tens of millions of shekels in
question, non-Orthodox in-
stitutions receive "almost
none."
The petition calls for fun-
ding criteria to be applied
fairly to the Progressive
Movement's request; that a
list of all institutions receiv-
ing money for Jewish
cultural education be
published; and that the
money the movement re-
quested be set aside so that
the money will be available
if the court rules in its favor.
The court did, in fact, issue
an interim ruling this week

in favor of setting aside the
funds.
The battle for fair funding
is not new to the Religious
Action Center for Israel.
In 1990, its lawyers filed a
petition against the system
of government budget
allocations then in place to
"politically linked organiza-
tions, particularly Orthodox
and haredi (ardently Or-
thodox) institutions."
That system, said attorney
Ms. Ben-Dor, enabled
Knesset members to lobby
for and get "special alloca-
tions" for their institutions
during Knesset budget
debates.

Uri Regev:
Filed the petition.

In effect, that meant the
institutions connected to
well- placed political parties
benefited financially, said
Ms. Ben-Dor.
"Haredi (cultural) edu-
cation was growing and
growing and growing on
state funds and resulting in
discrimination against any
alternative education," she
said.
But the system was chang-
ed following the petition and
a public outcry, said Ms.
Ben-Dor.
Every government min-
istry was given a lump sum
to subsidize private institu-
tions on the basis of stan-
dard funding criteria that
were to be established and
published by each ministry.
The new criteria went into
effect two years ago.
The first year, 1992, the
Israel Movement for Pro-
gressive Judaism received
its first allocation, 34,000

