07.10.2011 - 14:26 [ Reuters ]

Israeli forces state to change ´Jewish´ classification

Yoram Kaniuk, a rambunctious 81-year-old author, was hailed by Israeli secularists this week for winning a court victory that compelled the state to stop listing Judaism as his „religion“ while keeping „Jewish“ as his „ethnicity.“ He is the first Israeli Jew to have done so