More light, however, has been shed on the situation by Rabbi Michael Marmur, provost of Hebrew Union College in the United States, which is reviewing its own admissions policy.
“It is interesting to note that, as I understand it, in a European seminary affiliated with the Reform movement,” he wrote in a discussion paper, “a change in the policy was brought about not as a result of an internal change of heart, but because of advice from legal counsel.
“That seminary was externally coerced, and not necessarily internally convinced.”