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Still, they weren't offering any apologies over their most recent move. Rabbi Paul Menitoff, the executive vice president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the umbrella group of Reform Judaism, used strong language in describing why his organization had made its decision. "Can you imagine the impact on [gays] after so many negative messages from all those religious groups?" he told the Washington Post. Some saw the remark as directed at Catholics - gay rights groups have criticized the pope in recent weeks for his failure to include gays in his mass apology for the church's past sins...
...eruv] lets the disabled and those with small children participate in Sabbath activities," said Rabbi Robert Klapper, who also serves as the Orthodox Rabbinic Advisor for Hillel...
...most prominent and exposed of these is the city of Jerusalem. In January, Israel's Chief Rabbi Yisrael Lau asserted that John Paul's visit to the Western Wall would constitute "de facto recognition...of a united Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty." The Vatican supports no such thing. Weeks later, it signed an agreement with the P.L.O., whose preamble stated that unilateral actions by any party in Jerusalem are "morally and legally unacceptable." The Israelis were furious, but the trip was kept on track...
...Some women are repelled by what they see as anti-feminist traditions in the religion, but I want to go into the religion because of my feminist beliefs," said Tammy Shoham, a Hillel Fellow and conference participant. "I want to be a rabbi in part because I'm a woman...
Conservative Rabbi Elyse A Winick offered a less prescriptive interpretation of the faith...