The Boston Globe, February 21st, 2002
JERUSALEM - The Israeli Supreme Court, wading into the long- simmering debate over who is a Jew, issued a watershed ruling yesterday declaring that the state must recognize as Jews people converted by Reform and Conservative rabbis in Israel. Orthodox rabbis and politicians, who control religious life in Israel, immediately condemned the ruling and vowed to seek to circumvent or overturn it. Conservative and Reform leaders, struggling to create liberal Jewish alternatives in Israel, hailed the ruling, which they said would give new energy to their efforts to broaden religious pluralism here. T...
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