In Israel no less... I think this is a bad thing... Reform is the first step toward complete assimilation of the Jewish people.
Homosexual Rabbis, Female Rabbis, Women wearing mens clothing, Driving on Shabbat, Using Electricity on Shabbat, complete rejection of Halacha, redefinition of who a Jew is {patrelinear descent}, and allowing non-Kosher food to be served... There is nothing Jewish about Reform except that they too eat bagels...
I thought that the Religious in Israel would prevent the spread of this sickness in the Holy Land. The fact that they are being allowed to spread is just another plague on the Jewish people.
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/05/22/3096191/is-the-israeli-rabbinate-reconciling-itself-to-non-orthodox-judaismJERUSALEM (JTA) -- After a Jerusalem-area’s religious council allowed a female Reform rabbi to participate in its proceedings, some advocates of liberal Judaism in the country are hailing their inroads into the Orthodox-dominated religious infrastructure.
At the beginning of May, the Orthodox members of the religious council in Mevasseret Zion, a town west of Jerusalem, agreed to convene a meeting with the participation of Rabbi Alona Lisitsa. The 41-year-old rabbi is an immigrant from Kiev and received her rabbinic ordination from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem.
"This isn't just a victory for the Reform Movement," Lisitsa said. "This is a victory for democracy in Israel."
She speaks of the 200 dues-paying families in Kehilat Mevasseret and “many more” who come for a bar or bat mitzvah.
"Thousands attend our Yom Kippur prayers. We are easily the largest congregation in town," she said.
Like hundreds of similar bodies across the nation, Mevasseret Zion’s religious council allocates taxpayers' money for an array of religious services such as kashrut supervision, mikvah [ritual bath] maintenance, the building of synagogues and the payment of rabbis' salaries.
In a decision dating back to the 1990s, the Supreme Court ruled that the religious services minister, a portfolio traditionally held by a haredi Orthodox or Modern Orthodox Zionist political party member, could not disqualify a Reform or Conservative (Masorti) Israeli from serving on a religious council.
However, in nearly every city where a non-Orthodox representative was appointed to a religious council, the remaining Orthodox members of the body refused to cooperate. As a result, in dozens of towns across the nation special "religious services supervisors" were appointed to replace the recalcitrant religious councils, essentially bypassing the Supreme Court decision.
All religious Jews must resist the attempt of 'deformed' judaism to become accepted in the Holy Land. Hashem's very law, the Torah, clearly set out the laws which Jews are required to keep. Kashrut, Shabbat, Brit Milah, Family Purity and very important for the survival of the Jewish people. The deformed have done away with all the core Jewish values...