Conservative movement slams 'deplorable' moves on Western Wall, conversion

The Conservative Movement condemns yesterday’s “deplorable” cabinet decision to shelve plans for a pluralistic worship area at the Western Wall and the Knesset’s initial approval of a bill that would cement the ultra-Orthodox monopoly on conversions.

In a statement, the Conservative movement calls the “rising influence of an intolerant religious establishment as an existential threat to its future and to the unity of the Jewish people.|

The movement vows “not [to] rest until these decisions not only are overturned but also until Israel fulfills the promise of its Zionist origins and founding declaration to ‘ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex’ and to ‘guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture.'”