As Israeli government reforms to undermine halachah are in full swing, delegates from around the world have come together with the Orthodox Eretz Hakodesh slate in the World Zionist
Since winning power in June, Naftali Bennett’s government has moved quickly on a series of religious reforms that undermine the role of halachah in public life.
Finance minister Avigdor Lieberman has targeted working chareidi mothers with childcare subsidy cuts to strong-arm kollel students into the workforce. Co-prime minister Yair Lapid has vowed to give the Reform movement full access to the Kosel by January — a move that Meirav Michaeli of far-left Meretz characterized as “liberating” the holy site.
All of that is happening because religious political influence is at its lowest ebb in decades. For the first time, no party committed to the defense of Israel’s religious status quo is in government.
Against that gloomy background, a convention thousands of miles away under the thunderous showers of Monsey, NY, provided a path forward.
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