Poland installed its first liberal rabbi since World War II. Uri Regev, head of the worldwide Progressive movement, as Reform Judaism is known in Europe, installed Burt Schuman, 58, as the rabbi of Warsaw’s Beit Warszawa congregation at a special Shabbat service over the weekend.
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