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Rick Jacobs: Reform Judaism is increasingly the answer to secular Israelis’ prayers

Monday, July 09, 2012

"As a rabbi aligned with the controversial New Israel Fund and provocative J Street political action group, Richard (Rick) J. Jacobs, the newly installed president of the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ), could represent to Israeli Jews yet another naive American Jewish leader who just doesn’t get Israel.

"However, as Jacobs said this week in an interview with The Times of Israel at the Reform movement’s Jerusalem headquarters, “[Chief Sephardic Rabbi] Rav Amar would not be talking about us if we weren’t real.” "

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