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Article: FOCUS ON ISSUES: Reform movement looks ahead to new directions, new
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- February 13, 1995
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Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
02-13-1995
FOCUS ON ISSUES:. Reform movement looks ahead to new directions, new leaders
As the 21st century looms on the horizon, the Reform movement is reconsidering its mandate, its mission and its structure.
The nomination of Rabbi Eric Yoffie to be the next president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the movement's congregational arm, is viewed by Reform insiders as the promotion of someone who can take the movement in the new directions its baby-boomer constituents are demanding.
At the same time, Yoffie is said, in the words of one, to be "cut from the same cloth" ideologically as his predecessor, Rabbi Alexander Schindler, who ...