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posal by the ministry (then con-
trolled by the Orthodox Sephar-
di Shas party) to add the word
"convert" in brackets.
The ministry registered
Miller, but refused to treat her
as a precedent for other overseas
converts. In 1987 the Supreme
Court ruled, definitively, that
all overseas converts must be
registered as Jews, so long as
they were converted after ap-
propriate instruction in a rec-
ognized Jewish community.
This excluded "paper" conver-
sions, or attempts to bring "lost
tribes" back to Judaism.

Israeli citizens
converted to
Judaism by a
Reform or
Conservative rabbi
must be registered
as Jews.

The next battle was over the
right of Israeli non-Jews to be
converted by non-Orthodox rab-
bis abroad. In this case, a Dutch
Christian woman married a
Jewish kibbutznik. The couple
produced a daughter. Mother
and child were both registered
as non-Jews. The mother then
went back to Holland and was
converted by a Liberal rabbi.
The Jerusalem district court
ruled in 1993 that they had a
right to be registered as Jews in
Israel.
Where does the struggle go
from here? Israeli-born Rabbi
Regev, who is also a practicing
attorney, demanded immedi-
ately after this week's ruling
that the Interior Ministry reg-
ister Liane Goldstein as Jewish
by the end of this month. "We
hope that we will not have to go
back to court," he said, "but we
are ready to go back if the min-
istry stalls." Then Regev will ask
district courts all over Israel to
register dozens of local converts
whose cases are still pending.
And if the religious parties
present legislation to restore
their monopoly on conversions
in Israel? "We are preparing a
worldwide campaign," Regev
threatens. "We may see a repe-
tition of the 1988 'Who is a Jew?'
campaign. The issue is the same
— religious pluralism. And we
expect world Jewry to react the
same way." ❑

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