The head of the Reform movement in America urged the Zionist movement to focus its efforts on synagogues in the United States, which he called the true power base of American Jewry. Speaking to the 33rd Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, Rabbi Eric Yoffie said synagogues, not the fund-raising establishment, represent the future of American Jewry.
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