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2018- Religion and state - JPW update - November - 11 11/12/18, 3:18 PM

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State & Religion JPW Knesset Update

Greetings to all our friends! This week the Ministerial Committee will discuss MK Yael German's (Yesh } bill seeking to prohibit “conversion therapy” (trying to convert people’s sexuality) for minors. On Tuesday the State Control Committee will discuss the government's treatment of 's transgender community.

Last Wednesday, in the aftermath of the Pittsburgh shooting, the Knesset held an emergency conference entitled "It's Time for Equality," calling for religious tolerance and closer ties with Diaspora Jewry, and appealing for Israel's recognition of the different Jewish denominations.

The conference, held jointly with the Reform and Conservative movements, was the initiative of Deputy Minister MK (), MK (), MK Aliza Lavie (), MK Rachel Azaria (Kulanu), MK (Zionist Union) and MK (), and was attended by several public

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figures and more than 20 Knesset members from coalition and opposition parties including , Meretz, Yisrael Beitenu, Zionist Union, Kulanu, Yesh Atid, and the .

MK Nachman Shai: "We thought it only fitting that, at the initiative of the Reform and Conservative movements, the Knesset should take the time to highlight this issue, to make it heard, so as to find ways to repair the rifts and perhaps lead us to a new chapter in Israel's relationship with the various Jewish communities and streams. Talk alone will not suffice and we must come up with meaningful and concrete actions."

MK (Likud): "When there are anti-Semitic acts around the world and are massacred, no-one asks if you are Reform, Orthodox or Conservative. We all have the same blood and when they kill one of us they have accomplished their mission."

Chairman of Yesh Atid MK : “So long as the plan for the Wall {refurbishing the egalitarian prayer area} is not implemented and so long as there is no change in the conversion law, we are doing an injustice to ourselves as a society. We will not rest until all streams of Judaism are recognized by the Israeli government."

MK Rachel Azaria (Kulanu): "Diaspora Jewry is part of my family and a tremendous asset to the State of Israel. The Conservative and Reform movements are two very important denominations. I am Orthodox and we have differences of opinion but there are always disagreements in families and that is a good thing. The question is how we find a way to live together despite these differences."

MK Stav Shafir (Zionist Union): "Part of the State of Israel's purpose not only relates to its own citizens but also to giving legitimacy to all of world Jewry to live their Judaism as they see fit. The fact that specifically here, at

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home, Jews cannot live their Judaism as they wish, and the fact that we hear official representatives of the State speaking against the different denominations, these are the things that send a dangerous message abroad."

MK (Meretz): "Judaism passed me by as a child. I chose to join a Reform synagogue not so as to bolster the Reform or Conservative streams but for my own sake and for the sake of my children because I didn't want them to be cut off from their Judaism as I had been when I was growing up. This struggle is for me and for my children, and for most of Israeli society."

MK (Likud) shared his own experience with the non- Orthodox community while he was In the United States for the birth of his children (by surrogacy): "When my partner and I were in the United States with our newly-born babies and we wanted to attend synagogue on Friday, the synagogue we found was not Orthodox, but Alon and I will never forget the love and acceptance that we received there……We need to unite all the different sides so that we will finally be worthy of being called a Jewish State – a State for all Jews.”

Other MK's who participated were and Yulia Malinovsky (Yisrael Beitenu), Leah Fadida, Ksenia Svetlova, Ayelet Nahmias- Verbin, and Michal Biran (Zionist Union), (Meretz), (Yesh Atid) and (Joint List).

Read more on the JPW website | View the full conference

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We invite you to come to the Knesset and participate in the discussion. Write us and we will assist you in coordinating your visit. Email us at: [email protected] As always, you are welcome to follow the JPW’s Facebook page and twitter account in real time, and to invite English speakers to sign up to receive this newsletter by writing to us at: [email protected] Shavua tov,

Nerya Raphael Knafo Emily Levy-Shochat Director, Jewish Pluralism Watch Chair, Jewish Pluralism Watch

NEXT WEEK IN THE KNESSET The Ministerial Committee for Legislation Prohibition of Gender Conversion Therapy for Minors - bill introduced by Yael German and others 2017 This bill seeks to follow various states in the United States that have legislated against conversion therapy for minors carried out by licensed therapists. The bill proposes to prevent therapy for minors and referrals to such therapy. Conversion therapy aims to alter sexual orientation from homosexuality or bisexuality to heterosexuality or to modify gender identity. Read more

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The Knesset Committees

Tuesday, November 13, 2018 At 11:00 o'clock The State Control Committee The Israeli transgender community requested that the State Comptroller examine the conduct of state authorities towards the community – fifth follow-up meeting.

LAST WEEK IN THE KNESSET A selection of comments, bills, votes and discussions in the committees last week:

The Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs convened to discuss the conduct of rabbinical courts toward new immigrants in general and female new immigrants in particular. MK Yulia Malinovsky: "The rabbinical courts are an integral part of the justice system, and not an independent body." Read more\

The Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs also discussed anti-Semitic attacks and the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre. MK Mossi Raz: "We are all one people, all the streams, and we must respect all of them." | Read more

The Knesset Secular Lobby convened to discuss religious indoctrination in the education system under the heading "The Struggle for Israeli State Education". MK Michal Rozin: "I support Jewish studies in the schools but they should be pluralistic and inclusive of all the different kinds of Judaism." | Read more

MK Dov Khenin's bill proposing public transport on Shabbat was rejected in its preliminary reading by a majority of 43 opposed and 30 in favor. MK Dov Khenin: "Public transport on Shabbat serves democracy." | Read more

Members of the Ethiopian community gathered for the annual celebration of the Sigd festival. Prime Minister Benjamin

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Netanyahu: " drives me crazy; it has no place in Israeli society." | Read more

MK Yehuda Glick (Likud) submitted to the Knesset a private State Conversion Bill which conforms to the Nissim Committee's recommendations. | Read more

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