31.   Yet Smith has yet to align himself with a third party as potentially potent as the Reform movement, as Buchanan did Monday.

32.   A few weeks earlier a Jerusalem area kindergarten run by the Reform movement was torched.

33.   A top Orthodox rabbi sparked outrage Tuesday when he said the Reform movement encouraged intermarriage and assimilation and was eroding the Jewish population just as the Holocaust did.

34.   Although the Milsteins now support the Reform movement, the issue for them is how much influence the religious should have over their daily lives.

35.   Anat Galili, a spokeswoman for the Reform movement, said American Jews were sending a message to the Israeli government by channeling money directly to the non-Orthodox streams.

36.   But officials of the Reform movement, which runs the kindergarten, blamed Orthodox Jewish leaders who agitate against them.

37.   Conversion is especially important in the Reform movement.

38.   He said the Reform movement will press ahead with its court cases and not agree to further delays.

39.   However, he noted that the Reform movement still had a lot of work before achieving full recognition in the Jewish state.

40.   In response, the Reform movement appealed to the Supreme Court which ordered Suissa to explain by Sunday why he is preventing the convening of the Haifa council.