 In Israel, Conservative/Masorti Judaism has not extended Torah honors to either a bat Kohen or a bat Levi.In 1938, with the outbreak of violence that would come to be known as Kristallnacht, American Orthodox rabbi Menachem HaKohen Risikoff wrote about the central role he saw for Priests and Levites in terms of Jewish and world responses, in worship, liturgy, and "teshuva", repentance.In "The Priests and the Levites", he stressed that members of these groups exist in the realm between history (below) and redemption (above), and must act in a unique way to help move others to prayer and action, and help bring an end to suffering.