Israelis want children. Those who are more religious want more, and those who have more want more.

Those who are not connected to the community also do not see the need for it. In other words, the considerable effort directed at the unaffiliated American Jews to make them “connected” may well be a futile effort.

What is the purpose of a legal system? What does it exist for?

So, is it polite to speak in the Knesset in Arabic, or Russian, or French, or Amharic, or any other language that not everyone understands?

Kahana has a law to promote: Israel’s law of conversion. The short recap of what the new law intends to do: eliminate the monopoly of the rabbinate over conversions and let city rabbis perform official conversions.