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JERUSALEM, Jan. 5 (JTA) — In the wake of the Knesset’s final approval this week of a bill to dissolve itself and call for new elections in May, many political observers here are predicting a chaotic and fragmented new legislature reminiscent of Italy in its worst postwar instability. Some observers are warning, too, that the […]

NEW YORK, Jan. 5 (JTA) — Leaders of the Reform and Conservative movements of Judaism are once again mobilizing their 3 million American followers to fight legislative moves to solidify the Orthodox monopoly over Jewish religious affairs in Israel. Using rhetoric as sharp as a well-honed knife, leaders of the two movements exhorted their constituents […]