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Opinion

The Western Wall is not a synagogue

February 13, 2010 20:07
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I got this from the Progressive Zionists, ProZion.

The Western Wall should be a national site and not a synagogue, Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor said on Tuesday, in a revealing conversation in Tel Aviv about matters of religion and state with rabbis and leaders of the American and Israeli Conservative Movement.

Top American Conservative and Reform officials met this week with Meridor as well as with a number of other government ministers in separate and - according to the Reform Movement - uncoordinated meetings.

Whereas the visit of Rabbi Eric Yoffie, the president of the Union for Reform Judaism, the congregational arm of the Reform Movement in North America, was planned months in advance, the Conservative delegation, which consisted of heads of congregations and rabbis from across the United States, emphasized that they had come for a brief visit to address what they perceived as a recent serious downturn in religion-state relations in Israel.

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