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or the second time this year,
Israel's High Court of Jus-
tice has knocked a hole in
the wall of the official dis-
crimination practiced against the
Masorti (Conservative) Move-
ment and the Movement for Pro-
gressive (Reform) Judaism in
Israel by requiring the Religious
Affairs Ministry to allocate funds
for their activities — thus smash-
ing the Orthodox monopoly over
government spending that has
existed since the establishment
of the state.
"For years, we've been treated
like second-class citizens," said
Rabbi Ehud Bandel, spokesper-
son for the Conservative Move-
ment. "Christians and Muslims
enjoy religious freedom and state
financing in Israel. Even Samar-
itans and Karaites [two sects that
broke away from mainstream
Judaism centuries ago] appear
in the ministry's budget. But we
do not," he complained.
Now, due the landmark ruling,
that is about to change.
The court's decision came in re-
sponse to three appeals lodged
last year by the two "alternate
streams" for equitable support of
their institutions. Together they
had applied for a mere 1 million
shekels of the Religious Affairs
Ministry's 500 million shekel
budget for "Torah and cultural
activities," which are allocated
mainly to Orthodox yeshivot (par-
tially as personal subsidies for
their students).
The grounds for discrimination
against non-Orthodox institu-
tions were telling. The ministry
had disqualified the Reform
Movement's Hebrew Union Col-
lege, for example, because it has
a coeducational student body and
includes "secular subjects" in its
curriculum.
The implications of the court
ruling go beyond educational
bodies, however.
`The Religious Affairs Ministry
will now have to treat the Or-
thodox and non-Orthodox sectors
equally," declared Rabbi Uri
Regev, head of the Reform move-
ment's Religious Action Center.
Ultimately, the two movements
believe, that will mean funding
not only the activities of their 56
congregations but the actual
building of synagogues, as well.
Clearly, however, the issue be-
hind the appeals was not finan-
cial support but recognition of the
movements' "legitimacy" by both
the public and the powers that
be. And here their jubilation has
been tempered by the fact that
their struggle is far from over.
True, they will now have the
official "sanction" of government
funding (though Rabbi Bandel
Despite the headway
made by the non-
Orthodox, they still
face the
establishment's best
weapon
procrastination.
expects that it will take addi-
tional time and effort to actually
get the money in hand). But Con-
servative and Reform rabbis are
still not authorized to perform
marriage and conversion cere-
monies, and this is the key — and
very sore — issue that continues
to block their path to acceptance.
Thus the system for conduct-
ing religious affairs in Israel re-
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