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iiclr-21273	Smith, Tyler J.	Kosher Babies: How Israel's Approach to IVF Can Guide the United States in Fighting Separation of Church and State Abuses	2016	44	.pdf	application/pdf	13593	695	52	First, the secular Jews that founded and first populated the State did not feel bound to Jewish religious doctrine or Jewish law despite identifying themselves as members of the Jewish religion.254 Second, in 1948 the need was strong for adopting a legal 246 Id. 247 In Israel, the relationship between church and state is not one of strict separation in theory and accommodation, as in the United States, or of division and cooperation, as in Germany.27 Instead, there is a formal unity between the church and state with a substantive division.28 People who are associated with a religion are subject to religious law when the issue involves an area that the Israeli law has authorized to be controlled by religious law.29 When someone is not associated with a religion, in those specific areas where religious law applies, they are considered to be self- governing.30 For example, because Israeli law does not currently allow civil marriage,31 “the only form of standard marriage that can take place in Israel is marriage through the religious courts of one of the recognized religious communities.”	cache/iiclr-21273.pdf	txt/iiclr-21273.txt