The president of the Reform movement’s rabbinical arm called on Reform rabbis to renew the bond among all Jews “who stood at Sinai” and to “proclaim that Torah is our center.” Addressing 600 rabbis at the annual convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, Rabbi Richard Levy said the movement’s rabbis should give their congregants the option of keeping a kosher home and observing the commandments. Levy also held out an olive branch to Orthodox Judaism by calling on his organization to make “a concerted effort to reach out to Orthodox rabbis.”
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