Jerusalem – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday slammed remarks made by various Knesset members against Reform and Conservative Jews following a cabinet vote to radically upgrade an egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall and to anchor the arrangement in law.
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“Reform and Conservative Jews are part and parcel of the Jewish people and should be treated with respect,” said Netanyahu.
“The government approved this week a historic compromise that ensures that the Western Wall will continue to be a source of unity and inspiration for the entire Jewish people. This is the government’s policy. This is my policy.”
Wrong! If over 70% of Reform guys have intermarried the majority of them are not part of the Jewish people.
excuse please…it is mentioned in the torah many times ‘if you will not listen to my statutes …the land will spit u out’… in psalms says explicitly ‘ vayitnu l’hem nachlas goyim bavur yishmeru es chikosof’. so those who don’t believe in torah min hashmayim, that the torah is just a book authored by….have no claim to eretz yisroel kol shken v’kal v’choimer to the bais hamikdash
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Israel is a democratic jewish state its not a religous state. unfortunately I think their hands are tied on this one
If their mothers and mothers’ mothers are born Jewish, they are part of the Jewish people. Mixed prayers are not Judaism.israel might be democratic but the holinesss of the kotel as a Jewish place of prayer should be reapected. The government has more respect for Iso-called Islamic sights than it does for Jewish holy places.
Why is anyone wasting time arguing over what the head of the Zionist shmad claims is a Jew?
Any agreement between the halachic definition of “the Jewish people” and, lihavdil, the Zionist definition of the same, is, at best, purely coincidental.
Let’s state two facts, unequivocally.
1. Anyone born of a Jewish Mother is Jewish.
2. Reform, conservative, is NOT Judaism.
Bibi is deliberately combining these two facts, saying that he accepts them as Jews. So do all Chareidim. But their form of worship has NOTHING at all to do with Yiddishkeit, and should be banned from all mekoimos hakdoshim.
The reform today are different then the the Reform if yesteryear. Then they became Reform for the sole purposeof leaving the Torah and Mitzvahs Today they are clueless. And the few who try to understandare actually returning to yiddishkeit. So iI would be careful before saying they are not jews.