Ehud Barak, leader of Israel’s Labor Party, said, “I will never support and the Labor Party will never support any legislation that threatens to divide the Jewish people.” Delegates of the General Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations in Indianapolis greeted with enthusiastic applause Barak’s remarks, which were believed to be his most unequivocal position to date on religious pluralism legislation.
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