Rabbi John D. Raynor has been elected chairman of the Council of Reform and Liberal Rabbis, a group established in Britain last year to speak for liberal Judaism in this country. Rabbi P. Slevin Goldenberg was elected vice chairman and Rabbis Sidney Brichto and Hugo Gryn have been elected members of the executive committee. Rabbi Rayner is a former vice chairman of the council of senior ministers of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue. Rabbi Brichto is executive vice president of the Union of Liberal and Progressive Synagogues and chairman of its rabbinic conference.
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