A long time coming: Reform, Conservative movements laud Israel conversion ruling
Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US correspondent based in New York Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the Union for Reform Judaism president, speaking at the movement's biennial conference in Orlando, Florida, November 7, 2015. (URJ/via JTA) The Reform and Conservative religious movements celebrated Monday’s High Court of Justice ruling that legitimized non-Orthodox conversions in Israel for the purpose of citizenship. The movements that make up the vast majority of American Jewry said in separate statements that the decision was a long time coming and expressed hope that it would lead to greater inte...
Source: timesofisrael.com