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US Jews must force Israel to end the Orthodox monopoly
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
The Jewish Federations of North America are to be congratulated for condemning the statement by Israel’s Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar last week in which Amar referred to Reform and Conservative Jews as “up-rooters and destroyers of Judaism, who have brought devastation upon the Jewish people in the Diaspora.”
Not only are Rabbi Amar’s remarks insulting, but they serve to display his ignorance of the realities of Jewish life overseas, where all the major streams are struggling against the ravages of assimilation and intermarriage but in a spirit of tolerance and mutual respect.
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