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Progressives up battle against JFS law reversal

June 3, 2010 14:05

By

Simon Rocker,

Simon Rocker

1 min read

Non-Orthodox leaders this week upped the pressure on the Board of Deputies to justify a campaign to reverse last year's Supreme Court ruling on JFS.

In a joint statement reacting sharply to recent comments by Board president Vivian Wineman, the Reform, Liberal and Masorti movements warned it was "premature" to talk of legal change.

They declared: "We are not persuaded that the decision of the Supreme Court has presented the Jewish community with insurmountable difficulties, and consider talk of a 'threat to welfare provision and even possibly religious services' to be at best unfounded and at worst irresponsible."

They were also "not convinced by the statement of the Board of Deputies and others that it is necessary to change the law 'to protect the community' since no case has yet been made concerning what the community needs protection from".

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