Conservative Jewish leaders called on Israel’s High Court to move to allow civil marriages. The calls came this week after court president Aharon Barak on Sunday told a group of American Conservative Jews visiting Israel that “the lack of civil marriage in Israel is a major violation of human rights.”
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