A disagreement over funding for a rabbinical seminary is causing friction between Germany’s orthodox Jewish community and the government.
Orthodox leaders have pressed the government — so far unsuccessfully — to give their facility the same funding it grants Germany’s only other rabbinical seminary, which is liberal.
Rabbi Josh Spinner of the orthodox Rabbinical Seminary said Thursday the government should treat all religious denominations equally. He says the dispute raises questions about “what moral, historical and legal rights the German government has to choose its Jews.”
The German Interior Ministry says it already supports the education of orthodox rabbis by providing an annual grant to a Jewish studies center in Heidelberg. But that school doesn’t ordain rabbis.
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Somehow this sounds like the German government charging entrance fees to visit the concentration camps on German soil. There has to be some connection but I haven’t been able to identify yet.
um… maybe the reform just have better powers of persuasion/PR/ etc.
Do you think the German govt really care about orthodox/reform?
By the way if it was Chabad complaining about equal funding everyone would be going mad.
Don’t really see a connection with the camps in fact it sounds a bit paranoid to me.
I think I stated above that there may be a connection I just can’t identify. It is a bit of a coincidence, no?