In response the editorial that ran in the Jewish Week on Nov 9, 2018:,
IT IS TIME FOR ISRAEL TO RECOGNIZE ALL JEWS, All Jews and all streams of Judaism operate freely and openly in Israel. The government Israel registers and funds 64 non-Orthodox synagogues, with two provisos : Non-Orthodox Rabbis are not licensed to conduct weddings and conversions.

The editorial ignores the distinction between non-Orthodox practice in Israel and abroad. That is where the problem lies.

Some Non-Orthodox streams outside of Israel allow for interfaith marriage and define a Jew by way of the father, not the mother

Non-Orthodox streams in Israel forbid interfaith marriage and will not define a Jew through patrilineal descent.

There is a schsim in World Jewry which no one discusses: Non-Othodox synagogues in Israel do not recognize the standards of Non-Orthdodox Jewish practice abroad.

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  1. The headline is dishonest: Israel regonizes all JEWS. Israel does NOT recognize all Jewish ORGANISATIONS. Israel also does not recognize all people which some Jewish orgaisations have chosen to recognize.

    Israel IS NOT A RUBBER STAMP FOR ALL PRACTICES OF ALL JEWISH ORGNISATIONS.

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David Bedein is an MSW community organizer and an investigative journalist.   In 1987, Bedein established the Israel Resource News Agency at Beit Agron to accompany foreign journalists in their coverage of Israel, to balance the media lobbies established by the PLO and their allies.   Mr. Bedein has reported for news outlets such as CNN Radio, Makor Rishon, Philadelphia Inquirer, Los Angeles Times, BBC and The Jerusalem Post, For four years, Mr. Bedein acted as the Middle East correspondent for The Philadelphia Bulletin, writing 1,062 articles until the newspaper ceased operation in 2010. Bedein has covered breaking Middle East negotiations in Oslo, Ottawa, Shepherdstown, The Wye Plantation, Annapolis, Geneva, Nicosia, Washington, D.C., London, Bonn, and Vienna. Bedein has overseen investigative studies of the Palestinian Authority, the Expulsion Process from Gush Katif and Samaria, The Peres Center for Peace, Peace Now, The International Center for Economic Cooperation of Yossi Beilin, the ISM, Adalah, and the New Israel Fund.   Since 2005, Bedein has also served as Director of the Center for Near East Policy Research.   A focus of the center's investigations is The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). In that context, Bedein authored Roadblock to Peace: How the UN Perpetuates the Arab-Israeli Conflict - UNRWA Policies Reconsidered, which caps Bedein's 28 years of investigations of UNRWA. The Center for Near East Policy Research has been instrumental in reaching elected officials, decision makers and journalists, commissioning studies, reports, news stories and films. In 2009, the center began decided to produce short movies, in addition to monographs, to film every aspect of UNRWA education in a clear and cogent fashion.   The center has so far produced seven short documentary pieces n UNRWA which have received international acclaim and recognition, showing how which UNRWA promotes anti-Semitism and incitement to violence in their education'   In sum, Bedein has pioneered The UNRWA Reform Initiative, a strategy which calls for donor nations to insist on reasonable reforms of UNRWA. Bedein and his team of experts provide timely briefings to members to legislative bodies world wide, bringing the results of his investigations to donor nations, while demanding reforms based on transparency, refugee resettlement and the demand that terrorists be removed from the UNRWA schools and UNRWA payroll.   Bedein's work can be found at: www.IsraelBehindTheNews.com and www.cfnepr.com. A new site,unrwa-monitor.com, will be launched very soon.

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