Leaders of three Jewish streams launched a “national consultation” with the Presbyterians in the wake of differences over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Rev. Clifton Kirkpatrick, who heads the General Assembly, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.); Rabbi Jerome Epstein, the Conservative movement’s executive vice president; Carl Sheingold, the Reconstructionist movement’s executive vice president; and Reform President Rabbi Eric Yoffie met last week in Louisville at the Presbyterian Center.
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