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The Jewish Republic of Israel

Remember this day. It's the day Israel changes its character. As a result, it can also change its name to the Jewish Republic of Israel, like the Islamic Republic of Iran. Granted, the loyalty oath bill that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to have passed purportedly only deals with new citizens who are not Jewish, but it affects the fate of all of us.

From now on, we will be living in a new, officially approved, ethnocratic, theocratic, nationalistic and racist…

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Added by Arzenu Admin on October 11, 2010 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Reform and Conservative Jews fuming ahead of Knesset vote on conversions. By Natasha Mozgovaya and Jonathan Lis, Ha'aretz

The Reform and Conservative movements both in Israel and abroad were up in arms on Sunday, a day before the Knesset plenum was to stage its first vote on a proposal that would grant the chief rabbinate exclusive authority to oversee conversions in Israel.

The bill submitted by the Knesset Law and Justice Committee has already spurred a wave of…

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Added by Arzenu Admin on July 12, 2010 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Why IRAC opposes the Conversion Bill

At the end of April, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon and MK David Rotem of the Yisrael Beiteinu party traveled to New York to meet with the heads of the North American Jewish community and convince them to accept the bill. Ayalon and Rotem were unsuccessful.… Continue

Added by Darryl Egnal on May 27, 2010 at 1:30pm — No Comments