Ban on gay rabbis may be lifted

[Josh]

NEW YORK - A key Conservative Jewish leader is organizing talks nationwide to tell synagogues that the movement will likely roll back its ban on ordaining openly gay rabbis by year's end.

He and two religious law experts joining him at the meetings are trying to help congregations prepare for the confusion and discomfort to follow.

Rabbi Jerome Epstein, executive vice president of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, says a committee of scholars who interpret Jewish law for the movement will likely loosen the prohibition when they vote in December.

More: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060907/ap_on_re_us/conservative_jews_gays

[razors edge]

1. let the good times roll.

[countmyvote4real]

2. "discomfort?" Please. You don't know discomfort...

Sorry. Bad attempt at cliche humor.

Seriously, this is great news and it's why I SO love my activist/liberal/intellectual Jewish friends. And while every stereotype comes in different flavors, I could convert for that particular flavor even though I've become an agnostic. The really great thing about my friends and their community is that I could still be agnostic. Our common ground is that we celebrate the same core human values.