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(RNS) Citing conflicting opinions among its members and deploring the acrimony of the debate, the largest movement of Jewish Americans has declined to support or oppose the Iran nuclear deal.
Sitting in the pews, we have “a supporter of the deal sitting next to an opponent of the deal hearing a sermon by a rabbi who is somewhere in the middle,” Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, said Wednesday (August 19). “There is not one answer to the biggest questions that face our movement and our world.”
