T. Belman. Not only do they undermine our religious policies at the Kotel, they also undermine our political choices by supporting J-Street and Obama who are in truth, not pro-Israel.
Obviously their “support” for Israel is contingent on Israel embracing their progressive agenda. But why should Israel listen. Their numbers are dwindling and their members give more money to the Democratic Party or other non Jewish charities, than Jewish ones, by far.
Heads of American and Israeli Reform and Conservative movements send harsh letter to PM Benjamin Netanyahu, criticizing delay of plan to establish mixed-gender prayer space at Western Wall • Current situation “unjust and unsettling,” letter says.
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The president of America’s Union for Reform Judaism blasted the Israeli government on Monday for delaying a plan to give liberal Jews a special space to pray at the Western Wall, and vowed to escalate his movement’s struggle with public demonstrations and legal action.
“For this government agreement to collapse would be the signal of a real rupture of the North American-Israel relationship,” said Rabbi Rick Jacobs.
The liberal Reform Movement is the largest American stream of Judaism, claiming to represent 1.5 million people. Reform congregations hold mixed-gender prayers, employ female rabbis and have members who drive to synagogue on the Sabbath — all customs that go against Orthodox tradition.
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