Anshel Pfeffer wrote "It was a totally pointless exercise that achieved nothing and wasted an opportunity to make a real change in the future." Pointless? I would say the following: No clear 1.thinking person would believe that if this legislation would have eased the way toward conversion, and liberalized the path, it would have had the support of the Haredi world. 2. It has stopped the enshrining into law of additional (exclusive) powers to an already corrupt rabbinate that has soured many on their procedures for marriage, burial, conversion, divorece, kashrut, and more. 3..The use of the word "temples" is insulting. Yes, it is used in the names of many synagogues (especially in the Reform Movement) but it is also used, as it was here, to deny the legitimacy of these institutions as genuine synagogues. 4. He writes with regard to the lobbying against the bill "that trick won't work every time." To suggest that advocating in favor of Jewish unity and against empowering the Chief Rabbinate is a "trick" shows the bias of the author and his inability to separate calls for justice from "tricks." 5. Finally, the author calls the law "irrelevant." A law that hands over exclusive power to a Non (or even anti) Zionist body, here in Israel, is far from irrelevant.