Most Israelis Welcome American-Jewish Interference In Israel’s Religious Affairs

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A survey conducted by the Rafi Smith Polling Institute among 500 individuals representing a sample of Israel’s population found that most Israelis support American-Jewish involvement in increasing religious freedom in Israel. The survey was ordered by the Hiddush Freedom of Religion for Israel Organization.

According to the survey, 60% of Israel’s Jews support the involvement of Jewish Diaspora organizations in advancing marriage freedom and 40% oppose it. Among secular Jews and traditional Jews, 75% support U.S. Jewish involvement, compared to 91% of religious Zionist Jews and chareidi Jews who oppose it.

62% of secular Israelis felt that Israel should take into account the Jewish Diaspora’s positions on issues like marriage, conversion, and worship at the Kosel, as did 53% of traditional Israeli Jews. 73% of chareidim opposed this, as did 61% of religious Zionist Jews community. Overall, 53% of the Jewish population supported Israel taking the Diaspora Jewish community’s views into account on matters of religion and state and 47% opposed it.

Regarding which religious issues roiling Israel are the most important, 38% ranked the fight against the chief rabbinate’s control of Jewish marriage and divorce as the most important issue and 33% ranked it as second most important. Then came the fight for public transportation and commerce on Shabbos, which 28% regarded as the most important issue and 23% regarded as second most important. The controversy over prayer arrangements at the Kosel ranked last, with only 3% considering it the most important state-religious issue and 8% considering it the second most important.

“Interestingly,” Hiddush noted, “only 21% of immigrants from the former USSR attach importance to the dispute over who is a Jew, compared to 45% of native Israelis, even though the immigrant population is considered the primary target for conversion programs to Judaism. It would seem that veteran Israeli society is more interested in the conversion saga of the immigrant population than the immigrants themselves… To prove this point, the results are consistent with the lack of interest expressed by immigrants towards the various conversion programs offered by the Israeli government.”

David Steger – Matzav.com Israel


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  1. Rabbi Ovadiah of Bartenura
    in a letter to his father in year 1488 August 15:

    “Jews in Muslim lands make themselves appear poor.

    They go about like an impoverished, despised people,
    with their heads bowed before Muslims.”

    CHRONOLOGY:
    Rabbi Ovadiah ben Abraham of Bartenura was born around 1445 CE in Bertinoro, Italy, and died around 1515 CE in Jerusalem.

    SOURCE:
    Pathway to Jerusalem: the Travel Letters of Rabbi Ovadiah of Bartenura, written between 1488 and 1490 during his journey to the Holy Land (page 40) translated by Yaakov Dovid Shulman, year 1992 CE, 93 pages, CIS Publishers, Lakewood, New Jersey, ISBN 1-56062-130-3

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  2. A phony survey.

    Of the 500 “Jews” who were interviewed, approximately 60% were secular, 10% were traditional (not Torah Observant), 10% were former soviet Jews (some had questionable backgrounds), 10% would not be considered Jewish according to Halacha, and 10% were a combination of Modern Orthodox, Conservadox and anyone else who would respond to the questions. Chareidim and other Frum Yidden were not even taken into consideration. That’s why you had such a lopsided cockamamie response to the questions.

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