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…EDITOR'S NOTILINE • THE Uniting, Overcoming or much of the 20th century, the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York were a favorite meeting and vacation spot for Jews. So it wasn't surprising that the Conservative movement's Rabbinical Assembly held its 1968 convention there. Who would speak at the annual event, however, was not so predictable. When the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. entered the meeting hall, the rabbis greeted him with a...…
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