Jerusalem – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied that he said in closed talks that Reform Judaism in the United States would disappear within two generations due to assimilation.
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Netanyahu’s bureau said the reports, which appeared Friday in the Makor Rishon daily, were “inaccurate and do not reflect the Prime Minister’s views.”
But Makor Rishon’s diplomatic correspondent, Ariel Kahana, reported that Netanyahu repeated this assessment several times in private talks, and that Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer, has been heard making similar projections.
Netanyahu and his government have come under harsh criticism in recent months from leaders of Reform and Liberals Judaism in the United States and beyond over his government’s refusal to implement a compromise that enlarges the space devoted to egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall and over its support for a bill that would give the Orthodox chief rabbinate formal control over conversions.
Yet according to Kahana’s reports, Netanyahu spoke of the scenario of the demise of Reform Judaism as a threat to Israel, saying the Jewish state needs to prepare for a day when it would no longer enjoy the base of support provided to it today by the Jewish community in the United States.
by 2070 there will be no US, since itll be bankrupt and will demographically resemble Brazil.
Reform Judaism will exist in the future because the orthodox and hassidic drop outs will go there
What difference does it make if he did or didnt say? Reform Jews dont pose a threat to Yiddishkeit as Bibi does. Theyre dumb innocent idiots while Bibis himself in the footsteps of his honored teacher Jabotinsky hopes that Jews will assimilate And leave our our holy Torah and be secular bums as they are. Reform is a threat to the State of Israel and Bibi and his cohorts are the REAL threat to YIDDEN and everything We hold so dear. Reform is a joke. Theyre clowns. Wake up people.
Bibi sure does stir the pot doesn’t he?
One thing Bibi has wrong is that it will not be 2070 it will be sooner than that something like 2050
The non orthodox communities of jews are turning into a type of unitarian church today. The have spurned the halacha as practiced by jews till now and have adopted the refrain of ”tikkun olam” to be their object of practising judaism, without realizing what it means.