A congregation in Seattle named Kadima welcomed Ariel Sharon’s new political party of the same name. The executive director of the Reconstructionist congregation, Sharon Davis, told the Jerusalem Post that the synagogue “wishes Prime Minister Sharon the very best with his huge party name.” The congregation has commissioned a Torah to be written by a woman and operates a Middle East peace camp, the Post reported.
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