By affirming rabbinic officiation at same-sex unions, Reform rabbis have “gravely misled not only other Jews but the entire world by fostering the notion that Judaism tolerates homosexual acts,” a fervently Orthodox group charges in an ad slated to appear Friday in The New York Times. Agudath Israel of America’s ad came in the wake of a March 29 resolution adopted by the Reform movement’s Central Conference of American Rabbis.
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