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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.