Judaism does not need police protection or criminal sanctions imposed by the government. When the Knesset begins legislating faith instead of protecting freedom, something has gone terribly wrong. Imagine a situation where every public space in Israel was forced, by law, to have a holiday candlelighting each of the eight days of Hanukkah. Would that bring more light into this dark season?

The bill advanced this week at the initiative of coalition MKs Galit Distel Atbaryan and Yitzhak Kroizer, which has now passed a preliminary reading, includes a requirement to install mezuzahs in public institutions and criminalizes interfering with........

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