A Small Step for Israel, A Long Schlepp for Religious Freedom

Israel's high court today ruled that for purposes of being Jewish, overseas conversion is an acceptable alternative to being converted under the sanctioned (and Shas Party-controlled rabinate). This is a very small step for Israel in the long road toward religious freedom. InstantReplay will be pleased if the day ever comes when Israelis are free to worship according to the dictates of their conscience, or if the day comes when Israel abandons that whole modernist concept of the racially pure Nation.