AND THEY WONDER WHY AMERICAN JEWS AREN'T PRO-ISRAEL ANYMORE?:

Reform and Conservative Jews fuming ahead of Knesset vote on conversions: Knesset to vote in first reading Monday bill to grant Chief Rabbinate sole authority over conversions in Israel (Natasha Mozgovaya and Jonathan Lis, 7/11/10, Ha'aretz)

The Reform and Conservative movements both in Israel and abroad were up in arms on Sunday, a day before the Knesset plenum was to stage its first vote on a proposal that would grant the chief rabbinate exclusive authority to oversee conversions in Israel. [...]

However, the rabbinical movements not affiliated with the rabbinate see the bill as a method of usurping their authority and subverting the desires of those not affiliated with Orthodoxy to convert according to their chosen religious stream.

The Interior Ministry currently recognizes Conservative and Reform conversions carried out abroad.

Those opposed to giving the rabbinate exclusive authority believe that if the bill is passed into a law, the option of converting abroad without Orthodox supervision will be nullified.