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Reflection on Religious Pluralism and Th

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Israel's exclusive accommodation of Orthodox Judaism creates a fundamental inequity at odds with its identity as a homeland for all Jewish people. While Orthodox Jews represent only a small minority of Israeli citizens, they maintain disproportionate control over religious institutions and practices, effectively denying equal religious rights to secular, Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist Jews. Through critical analysis of Israel's religious policies, this normative study demonstrates how Orthodox political dominance generates religious coercion that alienates many Israelis and impedes aliyah from diaspora communities. Six specific reforms are proposed to address these disparities: shared control of the Ministry of Religious Affairs, governmental subsidies for all Jewish religious movements, legal recognition of all ordained rabbis regardless of denomination, regulated public transportation on Sabbath, interfaith chaplaincy positions, and elimination of Orthodox monopoly over determining Jewish identity. Dismantling Orthodoxy's institutional stranglehold requires a unified international coalition of Jewish movements and organizations. Only through embracing religious pluralism can Israel fulfill its role as a truly representative Jewish state serving all Jewish people.

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    Published 1981

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    Albert Axelrad