A governmental committee in Israel plans to meet this week in an attempt to resolve the conflict over the Orthodox Chief Rabbinate’s control of conversions performed in the Jewish state. The committee, which is expected to include religious and secular representatives, will mark the first high-level government effort to take on the issue since Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s election last May.
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