mise proposal on conversion, while
the Chief Rabbinate had rejected it.
It made no difference. If the
Reform and Conservative groups
decided to go to the Supreme Court,
they would be seen as the instigators
of a religious war among the Jews.
Yuri Stern of the Yisrael B'Aliya
party, who recently discussed the
issue with Jewish leaders in Atlanta,
said that a consensus had been taking
shape in the Knesset against the
Conversion Law, but if the Reform
and Conservative decided to go to
the Supreme Court, "They would be
seen as the ones opposed to compro-
mise."
A number of Knesset members
from Yisrael B'Aliya and the Third
Way, who had pledged to vote against
the Conversion Law, were now
changing their minds. At this rate,
the Knesset would pass the law and
thereby pre-empt the Supreme Court.
The Reform and Conservative would
lose their battle for equality, and
would also be blamed for bringing it
on themselves.
The following morning, at the
President's Residence, Bandel, Israeli
Reform Rabbi Uri Regev and five
leading Orthodox rabbis agreed to
return to the Ne'eman Committee
and try to hammer out a compromise
suitable to the Chief Rabbinate. The
compromise that's currently on the
table — accepted by the Reform and
Conservative, rejected by the Chief
Rabbinate — calls for the Reform,
Conservative and Orthodox to jointly
instruct converts, with the Orthodox
having find say over the convert's
acceptance as a Jew; and for
Conservative and Reform marriages
to be recognized as long as they are
performed in the presence of two wit-
nesses provided by the Chief
Rabbinate.
With this arrangement, Bandel
said, "We've come to the limit of the
concessions we can make." It's also a
matter of self-respect, he continued.
With the Orthodox rabbis calling the
non-Orthodox clowns and much
worse, "We cannot allow them to spit
in our face day after day while we
keep pretending that it's raining," he
said.
This is the third time the Reform
and Conservative have agreed to
delay their Supreme Court challenges
to allow the Ne'eman Committee
more time. If no agreement can be
reached by Jan. 31, 1998, they warn,
there will not be a fourth time. ❑
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