Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has not stopped the process of giving a permit to creating an egalitarian prayer section at the Kosel for the Reform community and has announced that he will come to a conclusion without reconvening the special committee for the overseeing of holy places set up to discuss the issue in the Knesset.
After three government ministers, Ayelet Shaked, Miri Regev and David Azoulai, resigned from chairing the committee one after the other, Netanyahu got together with Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz, to come up with a solution on their own. According to Israeli media reports, the two will come to decision and notify the committee with regards to what it is. They do not feel a need to reconvene the committee at all.
The reports continue to state that the decision has already been made by the pair, and that they are simply waiting for the opportune time to notify the committee about it.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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I truly hope that they will not desecrate the area of the Bais Hamikdosh with chazers. In other words, Reform is not Judaism and it would be a shame for the State to try to legitimize such a deviant cult. It would mean the end of support for the State by the rest of the Torah Observant World. That includes me.
do the reform actually pray? to whom do they pray? they don’t believe in G-d, so what is their take on ‘prayer’?
Can’t we tell him what we the real Jews want?
We want no pseudo-Judaism, no reformers, no cheats.
hopefully they don’t succumb to the erev rav
Firstly reform is a shorter word for zero attendance, so we don’t really need to worry about bizayon of the holy place in this matter
secondly the religious world will not allow this practically to happen, there will be tremendous outrage and it will cease to exist after a few months at most. It’s like donald trump banning muslims from restaurants in america. It can happen, but it definitely won’t last very long
reminds us when the romans besieged yerushylaim and they substituted a
pig instead of a sheep for the daily sacrifices…
“rabbi of crawley”, Donald Trump never banned Muslims from restaurants in America.
Get that straight.