1.   Bakshi-Doron has called for the abolition of the religious councils altogether.

2.   But after pressure or perceived pressure from the local religious councils, most hotels will not hold anything more than a Champagne toast at midnight.

3.   Following a court order, Leah Shakdiel, who is Orthodox, became the first woman seated on a religious council, in the tiny town of Yeroham.

4.   He allowed Reform and Conservative rabbis to sit on religious councils that govern day-to-day religious affairs.

5.   He has also ordered the appointment next month of new religious councils with fewer members in an effort to restrict he number of non-orthodox representatives.

6.   Last year, Joyce Brenner, a social worker and Reform Jew originally from Brooklyn, won a battle to be seated on the religious council in Netanya.

7.   Municipalities have religious councils that divide the money for religious institutions.

8.   Sheikh Abdul Avim Salhab, head of the Waqf religious council in Jerusalem, said he considers the book dangerous.

9.   Social worker, first Reform Jew appointed to a local religious council.

10.   The Golan religious council has written a clause into its standard divorce agreement stating that no property division would be adversely affected by the outcome of diplomatic negotiations.