The Reform movement’s Central Conference of American Rabbis sent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a sharply worded letter “demanding” that his government remove proposed conversion legislation from the Knesset agenda. The CCAR, which has 1,700 members, also called on the premier to withdraw his recent accusation that Reform rabbis perform “quickie conversions.”
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