The Knesset Finance Committee approved $20 million in funding for fervently Orthodox institutions. The move came after the committee turned down a $1.6 million funding request last week for the Joint Conversion Institute, set up by the government as a partial solution to the “Who is a Jew?” question in Israel.
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