The Chazon organization on Wednesday morning launched its new campaign against the Reform Movement, explaining if the grandfather is Reform, the child is mixed and the grandchild is a non-Jew. The campaign adds, “We are maintaining a normal Kosel”, which is a statement against the proposed egalitarian prayer area at the Kosel. The new major publicity campaign includes billboards, as the one seen in the accompanying photo, opposite the Ayalon Shopping Mall in Ramat Gan.
The campaign comes just days before the provocative actions of the women who will be marking 30 years of activities, coming to the Kosel every rosh chodesh. This will take place on Friday, 2 Rosh Chodesh Adar II at the Kosel, at 7:00 AM. The campaign relates to recent statements by Rick Jacobs, the president of the Union for Reform Judaism, who was quoted saying “I still hear some people speaking about mixed marriage as if it is an illness.”
Jacobs made additional statements backing and supporting mixed marriages between Jews and non-Jews.
Chazon is a new organization, which was established now, before the elections, hoping to safeguard the Jewish values of the state in the next Knesset. The organization is calling to return to a dialogue on matters of Shabbos in the public sphere, rethinking the family unit, the holiness of the Kosel, and Jewish lives in general. The organization reports that it has amassed a list of over hundred 20,000 supporters, who have signed on its platform, calling for the various parties running for Knesset to advance the future of the Jewish state.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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What utter nonsense is this? A father ‘s or grandfather’s status has no influence on a child’s status as a Jew, or are these people now following the Reform Hellenists’ patriarchal descent ? Sounds like someone is trying to get the noncharedi public mad at religious Jews so they’ll vote for the unholy alliance of Gantz and Lapid.