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Liberal Movements
Protest Rejection
Jerusalem (JTA) — The Reform
and Conservative movements
here will turn once again to the
Supreme Court to protest the lat-
est rejection by the Jerusalem
City Council of their candidates
to the local religious council.
The move reflects the escalat-
ing struggle between champions
of religious pluralism and
guardians of the status quo,
which gives a virtual monopoly
over religious matters in Israel to
the Orthodox establishment.
At a late-night meeting, the
City Council voted down a series
of Reform and Conservative rab-
bis proposed as candidates for the
local religious council by the left-
wing Meretz bloc.
The council, which dispenses
basic religious services to all Jew-
ish citizens and oversees an esti-
mated $10 million annual budget,
is supposed to represent all po-
litical parties serving on the city
council. The rules entitle Meretz
to two seats on Jerusalem's reli-
gious council.
Jerusalem Mayor Ehud
Olmert apparently instructed
council members not to discuss
the candidates before the vote.
Afterward he claimed the Meretz
nominees were rejected on the ba-
sis of their individual qualifica-
tioris and not their religious
affiliations, a city spokeswoman
said.
But Conservative Rabbi Ehud
Bandel, one of the candidates,
pointed out that Meretz nomi-
nated three pairs of rabbis, all of
whom were summarily rejected.
It was obvious they were
turned down because of their
non-Orthodox religious affiliation;
and, therefore, the council had
acted in contempt of court, Rab-
bi Bandel said.
The Supreme Court ruled last
January that candidates for local
religious councils could not be
barred from serving because of
their non-Orthodox affiliation.
The ruling was in response to a
petition filed five years earlier.
The Orthodox political and re-
ligious establishment reacted an-
grily to the decision as an
unwarranted intrusion by the
Supreme Court in religious af-
fairs.
Knesset member Avraham
Ravitz of the fervently Orthodox
Degel HaTorah party said in an
interview that the Reform move-
ment is not a Jewish religious
movement and does not belong
on a religious council that over-
sees religious matters.
Two months ago, Mr. Ravitz
and other politicians from the Or-
thodox parties took their protest
to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin,
.
who promised to investigate the
matter and try to find a solution
to the problem.
City councils are required to
form the religious bodies within
six months after municipal elec-
tions. But Mr. Olmert, a member
of Likud who is widely seen as po-
litically boxed in by the Orthodox
members of his city council, failed
to adhere to the timetable.
This failure prompted a
Supreme Court petition filed in
protest last August by the Reform
The high court
scheduled a hearing
for early next year.
and Conservative movements.
The high court had scheduled
a hearing on the petition for ear-
ly next year, but Mr. Olmert ap-
parently preferred not to wait and
last week convened the city coun-
cil meeting to act on nominations
to the religious council. For his
part, Mr. Olmert abstained from
the votes in question, his spokes-
woman emphasized.
The petition by Rabbi Bandel
and his colleagues will be filed in
the coming days and "we expect
the Supreme Court once again to
say the (City Council) vote was il-
legal," he said. "I just hope we
won't have to wait another five
years."
The religious councils "are not
the ones to rule on halachic mat-
ters," said Rabbi Bandel, refer-
ring to matters of religious law.
"They are administrative bodies,
and we just want to ensure the
monies are distributed on a fair
basis.
"It is a test case (for) Israeli
democracy and the status of the
Supreme Court," he said.
Meanwhile, the Supreme
Court is expected to rule soon on
a controversial agreement be-
tween the fervently Orthodox
Shas party and the Labor Party
that, in effect, would nullify any
Supreme Court ruling that un-
dermines the religious status quo.
Shas has made the agreement
a condition of its return to the
governing coalition, while the
Supreme Court's Deputy Presi-
dent Aharon Barak reportedly
has termed it "an agreement to
circumvent democracy."
Last January's ruling on the
religious councils is a prime ex-
ample of what the Orthodox es-
tablishment maintains is an
unacceptable attack on the sta-
tus quo.