About 1,000 people demonstrated here in favor of religious pluralism following the disruption of a Simchat Torah service in a Reform synagogue by Orthodox Rabbi Eliahu Abergil. He later apologized, the Kol Haneshama synagogue dropped charges and Abergil embraced Reform Rabbi Levi Weiman-Kelman.
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