Israel’s High Court of Justice authorized a compromise under which the Religious Affairs Ministry would provide a subsidy of some $77,000 to the Conservative movement’s rabbinical seminary. The subsidy given the Schechter Institute for Jewish Studies was calculated at 85 percent of the subsidies the ministry gives to Orthodox institutions. Israel’s Conservative and Reform movements had petitioned the court to receive subsidies at the same rate as those given Orthodox schools.
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