Eighty Reform and Conservative synagogue officers from synagogues in the U.S. departed Sunday for Israel to press their demands that Premier Golda Meir not accept the request of the National Religious Party for a change in the Law of Return, thereby recognizing only the conversions by Orthodox rabbis.
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