A group of over 50 “non-Orthodox rabbinical students” visited Knesset this week and taken aback when they were told they could not use the Knesset shul for their prayer service. According to the report, the participants in the program are members of the Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist movements, members of a group founded by the Conservative Moment, Pluralism Watch.
According to the organization’s website, it “monitors Israeli elected officials’ positions, statements and legislative initiatives and voting in regard to state and religion in Israel”.
According to Rabbi Joel Levy, who heads a Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem, some of the members of the group live in Israel and others are studying here presently. Group members are from N. America and Europe and Levy told Haaretz the members “represent the future of liberal Judaism”.
MK (Yesh Atid) worked to find a solution, commenting he will be speaking to the speaker in the hope of finding a solution for future events. Lipman explained to the group that using the shul for a group requires considerate advanced planning since the shul is used by hundreds of Knesset employees daily. Haaretz quotes Lipman adding “…through a complete lack of understanding of Jewish life and values in America, they would view an egalitarian service in the synagogue as an affront”, referring to the frum employees who regularly use the shul.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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“….the participants in the program are members of the Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist movements…”
The movements mentioned above have little to nothing to do with Judaism. They are deviant forms of practices calling themselves “streams”, “branches” or “movements” of Judaism. They are not Judaism. Their practices, liturgy and beliefs (or lack thereof) disqualify them as being anything remotely related to Judaism. They more closely resemble Paganism.
The leaders of the above mentioned groups are phonies who pedal their trash to their uneducated followers as a form of Judaism or as some of these charlatans say about their false religions: “ours is the original Judaism”.
They don’t believe that Hashem gave us his Torah. Many of them don’t even believe that Hashem exists!
They won’t be around much longer and will end up in the trash bin of history along with all the other falsehoods.
It’s an orthodox shul so get lost and pray in your tuma.
Nisht kein yid, nisht kein goy
The legal argument should be: it’s a different religion. Calling themselves “Jewish” and eating gefilte fish doesn’t make it one religion when they don’t even agree on the most basic principals.
Just like you don’t expect Christians to let muslim prayer in their church, you cannot expect us to let this new religion in our shul, even if it’s a public one.
#3 yo a goy in nit kein yid…see sunhedrin and many places ‘hoimer afilu ois achas betorah lo min hashumayim harei zeh koifer’
Of course physically he is a yid if his mother is (and this they also ignore
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