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A last moment
agreement to delay legal
action against the
Orthodox rabbinate
temporarily calms
nerves.
LARRY DERFNER
Israel Correspondent
t the last minute, the
Reform and Conservative
movements decided that
retreat was the better part of
valor on the sticky conversion contro-
versy.
Having lost nearly all their support
among secular politicians and the
Israeli media, they retracted their
decision to take their case for, reli-
gious equality to the Supreme Court,
and instead agreed to wait three more
months in the hope that the
Orthodox establishment would agree
to a compromise.
"Leadership is judged not only by
its determination, but perhaps also by
its readiness to take a step back when
it might have gone one step too far,"
said Rabbi Ehud Bandel, head of the
Israeli Conservative Movement, in
explaining the decision.
The agreement was reached at the
behest of President Ezer Weizman,
whose prestige worked its influence
on the Reform and Conservative.
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Also, sympathetic Knesset members
pledged that they would not ask
them to agree to another delay if, by
the end of January, a fair compromise
with the Chief Rabbinate was not
reached.
Finally, Rabbi Israel Rosen, head
of the Conversion Authority, which is
under the Chief Rabbinate's jurisdic-
tion, told the Reform and
Conservative at the President's
Residence that "we do have some-
thing to talk about."
"This sort of gesture from the rab-
binate was what we'd been asking for
all along," Bandel said, describing it
as a "confidence-building measure.
A delegation of Reform and
Reconstructionist rabbis from the
United States and Europe, led by
Reform Rabbi Amiel Hirsh, flew to
Israel for a 48-hour effort to convince
the Knesset not to pass the
Conversion Law, which would
enshrine in law the Orthodox
monopoly over legal Israeli conver-
sions.
The delegation was doing pretty
well on the public relations end until
it decided that since the Chief
Rabbinate was not interested in a
compromise, and was calling them
"clowns," they would give up on the
Knesset and take their case to the
Supreme Court. Politicians from
every party who supported their
cause-tried to convince them to hold
off.
Finance Minister Ya'acov Ne'eman, e
whose committee has received high
marks from every-
one for trying to
find a compromise
on the conversion
issue, warned that
the Reform and
Conservative were
"making the most
serious mistake by
the Jewish people
since the destruction
of the Temple."
The delegation and
their Israeli counter-
parts protested that
they had accepted
the Ne'eman
Committee eompro-
Hundreds o Jewish
residents of Hebron
celebrate Simchat
Torah as their rabbis
remain against the
conversion compro-
mise.
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