Chief Sephardic Rabbi Shlomo Moshe Amar Shlita has sent a letter to rabbonim instructing them to attend an urgent kenos to be held on 6 Tammuz 5772 at 14:00 in the office of the Chief Rabbinate in Yerushalayim. Rav Amar did not spare words to show his concern and disdain for the state�s decision which gives legitimacy to the Reform Movement in Eretz Yisrael.
The state�s decision compels the national government to pay the salaries of 15 Reform clergy presently serving in moshavim and kibbutzim. While the state�s partial recognition does not permit Reform clergy to perform weddings, Rav Amar and others are well aware of the danger of the precedent-setting decision which opens the door to total recognition of the Reform and Conservative Movements in Israel.
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(YWN � Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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3 Responses
Sinas chinam is what brought this about. 2000 years of exile and nothing was learned.
#1, How do you figure that? Whose sin’ah for whom?
The only sin’ah I see here is the Reform movement’s sinas Torah u’mitzvos.