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Achieving religious reform

How Miri Gold and 14 other Progressive and Conservative rabbis earned the right to state recognition and a salary.

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Photo by: Courtesy Schechter Institute
Nine years of struggle and a large – and stubborn – campaign ended last week in a decision that some are calling revolutionary.

Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein ruled that Rabbi Miri Gold, who serves the Reform congregation at Kibbutz Gezer, deserves to be recognized as a rabbi, and thus has the right to benefit from public funds for her religious duties.

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