And on Friday, the President will deliver remarks at the biennial convention of the Union for Reform Judaism.

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Reform Judaism, in 1983, recognised patrilineal Jews those born of a Jewish father but a Gentile mother as full Jews, provided they chose to live Jewish lives.

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Another depressing instance of this pattern just occurred at the Union of Reform Judaism with the nomination -- and election -- of Rabbi Richard Jacobs to serve as its president.

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Led by the new anti-Israel Jewish lobby J Street, and supported by groups like Americans for Peace Now, the Union for Reform Judaism, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and the National Jewish Democratic Council, the American Jewish Left supports the White House's hostile positions on Israel as an ends unto themselves.

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