21.   Regev, the Reform leader, said the Orthodox resistance to any recognition of the rival streams makes compromise impossible.

22.   Rival Preston Manning, former Reform party leader, showed more concern about the issue.

23.   Reform Jewish leaders have overwhelmingly approved a resolution giving rabbis the option of presiding at gay commitment ceremonies.

24.   Reform Jewish leaders on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a resolution giving rabbis the option of presiding at gay commitment ceremonies.

25.   Reform leader Rabbi Uri Regev and Conservative leader Rabbi Ehud Bandel said one of the proposed sites, the Herodian Street, could be an acceptable compromise.

26.   Rabbi Alan Silverstein of Congregation Agudath Israel in Caldwell, New Jersey, noted the Reform leaders aggressively track Jewish population shifts and often establish synagogues in new areas.

27.   Rabbi Uri Regev, a Reform leader in Israel, charged Bakshi-Doron had authorized the murder of Reform Jews.

28.   Reform leaders said Sunday that they would likely drop those cases if the deal was approved.

29.   Reform Party leaders kept up their sniping at one another Sunday, using Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura and presidential hopeful Pat Buchanan as targets in a factional fight.

30.   Regev said that since the election, he and other Reform Jewish leaders in Israel have received a stream of threats by telephone and fax.