Israel’s education minister promised to budget $1.25 million for educational organizations that offer a pluralistic approach to Judaism, according to the Israeli daily Ha’aretz. In a meeting with representatives of some of the 70 non-Orthodox organizations involved in Jewish education in Israel’s state school system, Yossi Sarid said the money would come in addition to the $15 million budgeted for pluralistic educational programs to implement the recommendations of a commission that investigated the issue in the early 1990s.
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