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rebdoniel
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I read an interesting piece in the latest Hadassah Magazine over Shabbat (my mother is a lifetime member).

They have an interview with MK Dr. Ruth Calderon, a scholar of Talmud, and she explains a distressing encounter she had with MK Lapid a few years back.

Apparently, she initiated a program where prominent secular Israelis took part in Torah study. She says that she was immensely bothered when Lapid read Tanakh as part of the program, and stubbornly insisted on upsetting traditional Jews by saying G-d’s name as “Yahweh,” not the more respectful and traditional HaShem or even Adonai.