Despite his tenacious efforts, Jerusalem Councilman Aryeh King lost his battle to prevent city funding of an organization with ties to Reform Jewry. According to King, the vote was close, 12-11 in favor of the funding for two organizations.
The first organization is a ‘secular yeshiva’, whatever this is meant to be, a school tied to the Reform Movement. The second organization is called Elul.
Deputy Mayor (Bayit Yehudi) Dov Kalmanovich lamented the fact the dati leumi community does not stand up strongly enough against the Reform.
Rabbi Aryeh Stern, the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, responded that the city could not fund the yeshiva due to its practice of holding civil marriages and other actions contrary to halakha. He added that the ‘Elul’ organization could receive funding if it agreed to avoid cooperating with the Reform Movement in the future.”
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Rabbi Shach said that secular subjects introduced into schuls, yeshivas or academies is contrary to learning Jewish law–I am paraphrasing him—it follows that any violation of this opinion is false Judaism—
Reform Judaism was introduced into Germany around 1850s by a R. Geiger—-some 70 + years later HaShem (in my opinion) took his wrath on the Jewish Nation !!
A goy,
Gerry Mullen
So Mr Mullen, can you explain why the vast majority of the murded were orthodox Jews?
To #2
Perhaps the reformed Jews were already annihilated spiritually and ceased to exist Before the holocaust. And the majority of so-called orthodox were not involved enough to influence their reformed brethren to stay on track etc etc
For the most only viable remnant are the charedi ultra orthodox; whereas the reformed Jews are for great majority are already assimilated
A goy,
Gerry mullen