Let the seculars have their way.
It is not. It's perfectly comprehensible.
The restored Biblical Theocracy can't come quickly enough.
“seemed to equivocate on calling the house of worship a synagogue”
The word is from a Greek word meaning “assembly”, and certainly Jews assemble there. His equivocation seems baseless, even if he questions whether Judaism is being practiced there.
This article is depressing. It reads like the paralysis is going to be slow death for Israel.
Israeli politics are pretty complex.
Personal status laws such as marriage are the same as they have always been among Jews in the Land of Israel. The modern state incorporated certain recognition of traditional Judaism as part of its ‘basic law’ as a way to assure unity in 1947. It’s known as the Status Quo of 1947 and is the equivalent of Constitutional law in the US.
Socialists/communists continue to lose their grasp over Israel, so naturally are in a panic to make Israel the equivalent of New York or California.