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US Jewish leaders call reintroduction of Latin prayer 'retrogression'

Jewish leaders in the United States say they are dismayed and disappointed about the revision of a prayer in Latin by Pope Benedict XVI about the conversion of Jews to Christianity, reports Ecumenical News International. US Jewish leaders said on 14 February they shared the disappointment of members of the Rabbinical Assembly, a global body representing of 1600 Conservative Jewish rabbis, which criticised the revision of the Latin prayer. "It's retrogression," James Rudin, senior inter-religious advisor of the American Jewish Committee, told Ecumenical News International. "I'm disappointed."

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