The most urgent order of business is to minimize the damage they can cause Israel and maximize the number of American Jews who will not go down with them
In the past month, the leaders of the Reform and Conservative movements in America have taken steps that change the basic contours of their movements.
These steps portend disaster for them and for their members.
Over the past two decades, the major disputes among and within American Jewish groups have revolved around two main issues. First, they faced the challenge of skyrocketing intermarriage and assimilation rates among non-Orthodox Jews and the concomitant dwindling of membership rates in non-Orthodox religious institutions.