A leader of Reform Jewry wrote to German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, trying to gain recognition and funding for Germany’s Liberal Jewish community. In the letter, released Tuesday at a news conference in Jerusalem, Uri Regev, executive director of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, urged the German leader “to address the needs and the entitlements of the Union for Progressive Judaism in Germany and the communities and institutions it represents.”
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