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(71,265 posts) Sun Dec 28, 2014, 09:48 AM Dec 2014

Broad Coalition Of American Jews Seeks To Break Israel's Chief Rabbinate Monopoly

Religion News Service By Lauren Markoe

(RNS) A broad coalition of American Jews last month formed the Jewish Religious Equality Coalition — or J-REC — to pressure Israel to diminish the role of Orthodox rabbis who control so much of Jewish life in Israel.

For these Jews, the Chief Rabbinate upholds a strict set of standards governing conversion, marriage and burial that many cannot hope to meet or do not want to embrace.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/28/american-jews-israel-chief-rabbinate_n_6373432.html?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000055

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