Jerusalem – Israel’s consul in New York, Dani Dayan, called “deeply frustrating and disappointing” the Union for Reform Judaism’s negative reaction to President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
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Dayan said this on Wednesday, according to the Makor Rishon daily, following a statement by Rabbi Rick Jacobs, who head the Reform Union, on behalf of the organizations of the movement.
Jacobs wrote that Trump’s declaration Wednesday “affirms what the Reform Jewish movement has long held: that Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the Jewish people and the State of Israel. Yet while we share the President’s belief that the U.S. Embassy should, at the right time, be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, we cannot support his decision to begin preparing that move now, absent a comprehensive plan for a peace process.”
Dayan said the statement was “deeply frustrating and disappointing because Jerusalem is the uniting force of the Jewish People.”
Jacobs also said that the White House should not undermine efforts toward making peace between Israel and the Palestinians by “making unilateral decisions that are all but certain to exacerbate the conflict.”
The Republican Jewish Coalition praised the president for his announcement of a “significant change in U.S. policy” by recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and announcing a plan to begin the process of moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.
Malcolm Hoenlein, president of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, said Trump was doing “the right thing.”
“When President Trump visited the Western Wall and made a declaration recognizing Jerusalem as holy to the Jews after the denunciation of UNESCO, there was not even one warm-up, not one demonstration, because when you do the right thing, you do not have to ask questions, you just do it,” Hoenlein said Wednesday in an address at the launching of the Lobby for the Protection of the Mount of Olives in the Knesset.
Many Reform Jews, especially the rabbis and the national organization, are unfortunately left-wing politicos first; everything else is a secondary matter to them.
these reform “Jews” are as Jewish as Bernie Sanders.
Again it’s time for a complete break with the ‘reform jewish church.’The have shown time and time again that their ‘religion ‘is nothing more than a completely americanized , assimilated sect of liberal jews that has no foundation in the jewish religion.’ They profess no connection to our torah and mitzvos and just do what’s comfortable at the moment.
For once the reform and NK are on the same page.
Some of these left wing Jews were actually caught assisting the Arabs on ships bound for Gaza with contraband goods. Those ships were not just carrying humanitarian supplies.
Can any of you who support the President’s announcement address the substantive issues? All you do is dismiss those who disagree with you on spurious personal terms. That neither makes you look intelligent, nor adds anything to your position.
and they want access to the holy wall which they dont even belive in . not in coming of moshiach, not in korbonos etc judstlhachis to destroy
I agree 100% with Esther (#16). A leopard does not change its spots. We have seen time and time again, the modus operandi of the Palestinian savages. I remember in 1974, how they gunned down and killed 26 Israeli school children at Maalot. I also remember how they killed American hostages, whether it was on the Achille Lauro, or on a hijacked TWA plane. On cannot make peace with such savages. I regret that after the Six Day War, that Moshe Dayan didn’t order his troops to expel the Palestinians from East Jerusalem and the West Bank. If they had done that, we wouldn’t have these problems today. Kahane was right, pertaining to the Arabs. They must go, including those who live in Israel, proper, if they wish to side with their brethren.