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A committee for the Conservative Jewish movement recently approved two liturgies that may give more rights to same-sex couples marriages than in heterosexual marriages. And women aren’t taking it lying down.

The Conservative Jewish seminary in Israel has voted to allow gays and lesbians to become rabbis, overcoming years of opposition by many of its own leaders.

A once unimaginable movement is emerging from within Israel’s insular Orthodox Jewish community: homosexuals demanding to be accepted and embraced, no matter what the Bible says.