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Check out this audio dispatch from Ben Harris, who is one of two JTA reporters at this week's biennial convention of the Union for Reform Judaism. It's a politically active, extremely liberal crowd of several thousand Jews – and, not surprisingly they're buzzing in the hallways about the elections and cheering in the auditoriums about the need to stop any more conservative judges from getting on to the Supreme Court.

Click the play button below to listen.

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Alan Raeburn

12/16/07 10:24 AM

Pittsburgh Platform: one of the truly sick departures from true Judaism.  Even gentiles can point to it and say: ‘now THIS is an important document’.  Pure unadulterated nonsense that will haunt us forever.

We want Moshiach NOW!  To our true home Yerushlayim!

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