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Apr. 12, 2021 6:03 AM
The High Court of Justice overruled a decision by the Education Ministry to cancel the special funding received by pluralistic Jewish organizations for activities they provide in schools. In doing so, the justices rejected the ministry’s arguments that all the activities in nonreligious state schools – including those of religious groups such as Chabad – is of a pluralistic nature.
Justice Daphne Barak-Erez said the changes in rules that led to ending support two years ago “is not based on a factual foundation and adequate internal processes of consultation, and therefore is required to be reconsidered.” Barak-Erez also said that teaching Judaism in state schools must be done according to pluralist principles, which are based on the report of the Shenhar Committee that examined the curriculum for this subject.
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Mar. 6, 2021
Justice David Mintz couldn’t let it rest. “There is no escaping the need to recognize people who were converted in Reform or Conservative communities in Israel as Jews for the purpose of being considered under the Law of Return,” he wrote in last week’s High Court ruling.
“However,” he added, “one can only hope that a minority with impure intentions does not abuse the situation, because alongside this ruling lies a danger with unforeseeable consequences.”
What’s Mintz afraid of? Let the ultra-Orthodox Shas party do the explaining. “Danger! Thousands of infiltrators and foreign workers will become Jews through Reform conversion!” This is what a Shas election poster cries out, showing two African asylum seekers sitting on a swing in a public park. Above them is a banner saying “Jews branded kosher by the High Court.” On the bottom is a pledge: “Only Shas will preserve a Jewish state.”
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