In a boost for the plan, the Western Wall's Orthodox Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz endorsed the new prayer section.
The report chronicled the travels of Rabbi Yisrael Gabbai, an ultra-Orthodox rabbi who has taken upon himself to travel to save these important shrines.
In the general election, Mr. Pascrell will face Shmuley Boteach, an Orthodox Jewish rabbi and former spiritual adviser to Michael Jackson, who won the Republican primary race with 58% of the 8, 830 votes.
On his first trip overseas as President, during his visit to Istanbul, he met with Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew, Armenian Orthodox Archbishop Aran Stesyan, Chief Rabbi of Istanbul Isak Haleva, Grand Mufti of Istanbul Mustafa Cagrici and Syrian Orthodox Archbishop Yusuf Cetin.
Rabbi Nathan Diament, an Orthodox Jewish leader who supports the proposal, said religious groups must meet the same standards that secular groups do.
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And even when victims want to speak out, some Orthodox communities require their congregants to consult with a Rabbi before taking their accusations to the secular authorities.
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"They are leading the public astray and are causing a great negative influence on the young generation, " says Rabbi Efraim Luft, head of an ultra-orthodox organisation in Israel called the Committee for Jewish Music.
Sitting in the dining room of his small flat in the orthodox town of Bnei Brak, close to Tel Aviv, Rabbi Luft explains his preference for traditional, even sombre, Jewish tunes like Kol Nidrei.
Remarkably, Rabbi Ellenson has devoted his career as a historian to the study of Orthodox responses to modernity.
Earlier this year, facing a High Court action brought by an Israeli Reform rabbi, the Israeli government announced that it will fund a small number of non-Orthodox rabbis around the country.
The Brooklyn-born Schacter was an early student of Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, who is considered one of the founders of Modern Orthodoxy, a movement within Orthodox Judaism.
Rabbi David Ellenson, president of the (Reform) Hebrew Union College, staunchly defends the non-Orthodox case.
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