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IRAC's highs and lows

Center has expanded its scope to support not just Reform Movement but other minority groups in Israel.

ANAT HOFFMAN at the Western Wall
Photo by: Reuters
The Israel Religious Action Center (IRAC), located in Jerusalem, is the public and legal advocacy arm of the Reform Movement in Israel. Founded in 1987 with the goals of advancing pluralism in Israeli society and defending freedom of conscience, faith and religion, today it focuses on issues of religion and state.

Though the center’s original aim was to win recognition and gain equal government funding for Reform and Conservative Judaism, IRAC’s legal department has since become expert in the issue of fair distribution of government funds for other minority groups, not just Jewish ones.

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