Sep 7, 2010

3 news items and one ENORMOUSLY important OpEd, each pointing to the same thing (PLEASE READ 3)

Our goals for the coming year are clear.  3 news items and one ENORMOUSLY important OpEd, each pointing to the same thing (PLEASE READ ALL OF THESE): Jewishness of some 4,500 soldiers questioned by the Chief Rabbinate (http://tinyurl.com/2e7a5y7)  investigation against head of Kibbutz Movement's task force for calling on public to hide foreign workers' children (http://tinyurl.com/27adfq5) and Police Recommend Pressing Charges Against Anat Hoffman while Rabinowitz Tightens his Grip on the Western Wall (http://womenofthewall.org.il/media-3/press-room).  Kol Hakavod to Rabbi Eric Yoffie (Reform) and Rabbi Steven Wernick (Masorti) for their joint OpEd "Op-Ed: Israeli Chief Rabbinate is thwarting religious expression, democratic principles" http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/09/07/2740824/op-ed-the-israeli-chief-rabbinate-is-thwarting-religious-expression-and-democratic-principles.

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Rabbi Menachem Creditor
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