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issues," says Zamira Segev, ac-
taive in the coalition.
"What still concerns us enor-
mously, however, is that the Con-
servative and Reform movements
will be the first to be harmed," Ms.
Segev adds. High on the list of the
remaining demands is the amend-
ment of the religious-conversion
law and measures to keep mem-
bers of the "alternative streams"
off Israel's religious councils (de-
spite a High Court ruling to the
contrary).
What's more, the commitment
of the Third Way and Yisrael
B'aliyah to religious pluralism is
less definitive than their stand on
religious coercion.
Last week, Yuli Edelstein, a
new Knesset member for Yisrael
B'aliyah, said, "I want to help the
immigrants. rm not interested in
helping Reform [and Conserva-
tive] Jews."
Still, as spokesmen of the "al-
ternative" movements point out,
the ultimate connection between
the two is sLonger than the unini-
tiated suspect.
"In accepting the appeals of the
Conservative and Reform move-
ments, the High Court has not
ruled against the religious 'status
quo,' as it opponents claim," says
Rabbi Ehud Bandel of the Con-
servative movement. "It has ruled
according to the legal status quo,
which demands full equality and
forbids discrimination on the ba-
sis of religious identification."
Hence, Rabbi Bandel reasons,
"Any attempt to make the court
rule according to other than strict-
ly legal principles will ultimately
affect every sector of our society,
by undermining Israel's democ-
racy."
Ms. Galili-Blum also laments
the impact that the "alternative
streams" were to have had on
Jewish education in Israel. Two
summers ago, the Shenhar Com-
mission report called for an en-
hancement of Jewish education
in the secular schools, recom-
mending that the Reform and
Conservative movements help to
build a new curriculum and train
educators, using the lessons to
bridge the religious and secular
worlds.
"We sank a fortune into cur-
riculum ,planning and teacher
training, but now rm sure none of
it will be implemented," she fore-
casts.
Instead, secular students will
be taught Jewish subjects either
by Orthodox teachers who don't
understand their background and
thinking or by secular ones who
lack a deep understanding of the
material. "Either way," says Ms.
Galili-Blum, "the result is likely
to perpetuate the divisions in Is-
raeli society by raising yet anoth-
er generation that feels alienated
toward religion."
And that, as the results of last
month's elections indicate, is fi-
nally becoming a true concern of
religious and secular Israelis. ❑
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