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Israel’s high court says non-Orthodox converts are Jews

Israel Reform rabbis pray at the Western Wall 2016

Tel Aviv, IsraelAP Israel’s Supreme Court on Monday dealt a major blow to the country’s powerful Orthodox establishment, ruling that people who convert to Judaism through the Reform and Conservative movements in Israel are also Jewish and entitled to become citizens. The landmark ruling, 15 years in the making, centered around the combustible question of […]