Police are investigating two recent attacks against a Reform and Conservative synagogue in Ra’anana. In one case, a brick was hurled through a window and in the second more recent attack; a number of the synagogue’s windows were smashed.
Officials connected to the two synagogues feel the attacks are due to intolerance to the various streams of Judaism, as Gilad Kariv, the executive director of the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism feels “this is a period of increased tensions among sectors in Israeli society”.
Kariv calls on city officials and leaders of the city’s Orthodox community to condemn the attacks. Mayor Nachum Hofri has ordered increased security for the synagogues, releasing a condemnatory statement as well.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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I find it simultaneously astonishing and depressing that not a single message of support and/or sympathy, from any chareidi rov, has been published yet.
Sympathy, maybe. Why would any charedi rov support for people bent on destroying all that makes us special?
#2:
Because they are Yiddin whose property was violently attacked we should show support; we all know the pitfalls of sinas chinam. Where you find strife, there you find the sahtahn at his best.
Besides this, #1, where is your evidence that no Charedi Rov has shown public support? It is impossible that you have investigated all possible sources for such a statement; your claim is therefore clearly lashon hara / rechilus.