JERUSALEM - The Israeli government has managed to resolve temporarily its biggest fight with the Jewish diaspora, while it battles for domestic survival, writes David Horovitz.
Leaders of the Orthodox, Conservative and Reform streams of Judaism yesterday signed an agreement in Jerusalem to put aside their argument over the basic criteria for being Jewish - for the time being. Reform and Conservative leaders agreed to freeze their petitions to the Israeli Supreme Court for the formal right to convert non Jews to Judaism in Israel; in return, the Orthodox leaders agreed to suspend Knesset legislation that would have explicitly outlawed such conversions.
The agreement gives the sides until the winter to find a compromise.