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A group of American Conservative and Reform rabbis and the Women of the Wall movement members hold Torah scrolls during a protest march against the governments failure to deliver a new prayer space, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Old City, November 2, 2016. Hadas Parush/Flash90)

U.S. Jews can’t expect Israel to be liberal only where they want it to

Liberal American Jewry is up in arms after the Israeli government nixed a deal to allow men and women to pray together at Judaism’s holiest site. But if American Jews want their interests in Israel safeguarded, they must rid themselves of the fantasy of a nonexistent Jewish pluralism. The Netanyahu government created an uproar across the Jewish world on Sunday…

By Noam Sheizaf June 26, 2017