After 26 years without a chief rabbi, Rabbi Kalman Bar Shlita assumed the position of mora d�asra of Netanya on Monday, 7 Teves 5775. Taking part in the ceremony were Rishon L�Tzion Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef Shlita, Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem Rabbi Shlomo Amar Shlita, Rosh Yeshivat Kerem B�Yavneh Rabbi Mordechai Greenberg Shlita, former Chief Rabbi Yonah Metzger Shlita, Minister of Religious Services Naftali Bennett and his assistant, Deputy Minister Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan, Interior Minister Gilad Erdan, Mayor Mrs. Miriam Fierberg and local officials.
Bayit Yehudi officials point out the appointment is a continuation of efforts by Ben-Dahan to appoint Zionist rabbonim to fill municipality vacancies.
Rabbi Bar is a graduate of the Bnei Akiva yeshiva network and Yeshivat Hesder Kerem B�Yavneh and earned his Rabbanut semicha as well as certification to serve as a rav of a city. He was employed for years as a rebbe in that yeshiva as well as serving as rav in the Talpiot College in Tel Aviv. He also gives shiurim in Kibbutz Chafetz Chaim on a regular basis and serves as the head of the girl�s high school on kibbutz.
(YWN � Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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8 Responses
Sensible for a Zionist country to have Frum, Toradig, Erhlich Torah scholars who happen to also be “Zionistic” (what does that mean? that your semicha is from a non-European Yeshiva gedolah, that gives shiur in lashon hakodesh??)
he’s awesome!
behatzlocho!
it’s actually Rav Kalman Ber, Shkoyach
🙂
Matching hats
The Rav’s last name is pronounced Ber.
Thinking Cap –
Finally there is a Israeli mayor with enough respect for Torah Jews to cover her hair!
and you make jokes?
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We are sadly enough all aware of what �Zionistic� is intended to mean
Is it applicable here?
Similar to yerushalayim
For 26 years (More than a generation) all worthy candidates were blocked ..till ..they found one?
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Zionists were relatively once a small minority.
Millions of your brethren over generations were convinced to follow the siren song ,because they promised that there some things were above zionism
such as the rabbinate