Conservative rabbis passed a motion that could make it easier to push through a change in the movement’s approach to homosexuality. Rabbis meeting in Mexico City at the annual convention of the Rabbinical Assembly, the movement’s rabbinic arm, voted to lower the threshold needed to enact a takanah, a rabbinic legal term referring to a ruling that changes existing law.
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