Conservative rabbis around the world raised more than $50,000 in two weeks to help pay debts plaguing the Masorti arm of the movement in Israel. Conservative leader Rabbi Reuven Hammer is spearheading an emergency campaign to raise $700,000 to stave off layoffs and education cutbacks in Israel, said a spokeswoman for the movement’s rabbinical union, the Rabbinical Assembly.
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