21.   Orthodox leaders ridicule both groups as heretical and responsible for assimilation of American Jews.

22.   Orthodox leaders are keenly aware how explosive any change in the church calendar can be.

23.   Orthodox leaders are not particularly pleased at the competition for souls.

24.   Orthodox leaders fear that the wealthier, more powerful Catholic church is using reconciliation as a Trojan horse to push into Orthodox territory and convert their believers.

25.   Oxnard Street is an alternate route if Orthodox Jewish leaders successfully block the busway through their community.

26.   Reform, Conservative and some Orthodox leaders denounced the move.

27.   Rabbi Benjamin Morgenstern, an Orthodox Jewish religious leader and educator for many years, died Friday at Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem.

28.   Some Orthodox leaders believe the more lax rules adopted by the Reform and other Jewish movments is undermining the faith by promoting assimilation and intermarriage.

29.   Some centrist Orthodox leaders in the United States said in interviews that they would welcome this outcome.

30.   Still, some Orthodox leaders say the talk of greater power on the right is overstated.