A Haaretz article asks:
Should the Reform movement ordain intermarried rabbis? Hebrew Union College, which is the seminary of America’s largest Jewish denomination, is considering altering its current policy, which does not allow admission to its rabbinical, cantorial or education schools of applicants who are married to or partnered with non-Jews.
“In modernity everything is fluid and up for grabs. In the case of Reform Judaism we’ve not only grudgingly come to terms with that, we’ve embraced that reality,”
Read more: http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-features/u-s-reform-jewish-seminary-reconsidering-policy-against-intermarried-students-1.524953
What's the next step? Ordaining the non-Jewish partners?
You can be sure that with the Reform movement, they are surely thinking of ordaining non-Jews. To them, there's no difference, as they do not believe that Torah is Divine. No wonder the high rate of intermarriage and assimilation, r'l.
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