A liberal U.S. Jewish group is urging American Jews to flood the Israeli Embassy in Washington with phone calls to oppose bills in the Knesset that would set back the cause of religious pluralism in Israel. “It’s time for American Jews to tell the Israeli Government exactly what we are. Jews,” the group said in an advertisement in The New York Times. The bills would invalidate conversions preformed by non-Orthodox rabbis and counter efforts by non-Orthodox representatives to serve on local religious councils.
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