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| | Rabbiner Uri Regev - The Reform movement arose in Germany... |
 | | This support would be largely aimed at the social and cultural integration of Russian jewish immigrants to Germany who have caused the community to swell from 30,000 in 1990 to 100,000 today. |
 | | According to Shmuel Bahagon, director of the Union Progressiver Juden in Deutschland, most of the Russian immigrants have little or no knowlegde of Judaism, but they are all considered members of the official, Orthodox-conrolled, Jewish communitiy, to which they look for moral and material support. |
 | | Regev said that he believed that eventually the leaders of the Zentralrat would realize that if they wanted to maintain a unified Jewish community, they wouuld have to accommodate the Reform, but he added that if they did not, the movement was ready to continue the fight. |
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