In June, the Mekor Rishon newspaper hosted its first International Diaspora Conference, online, and with that, held a session about common denominators between Jewish communities around the world under the title “Shared Purpose: Who’s afraid to talk?”
That
session was moderated by Prof. Gil Troy, an expert in the Diaspora and a
columnist for The Jerusalem Post, and his two panel participants were Rabbi Eliezer Melamed,
a religious-Zionist leader from the more conservative wing of the
sector, and Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur, a female French Reform rabbi.
The traditional Chareidi approach was always "If they can't handle being 'real' Jews like us, might as well toss 'em away." From that we got the Reform and the Haskalah. Perhaps engaging them will lead to more positive things.
ReplyDeleteI am not reform , but I agree , there should be women at the wall, they should read the Torah and wear tefillin. Why? 200 years ago, reform hated religion, ate chazir, mocked gedolim like the Malbim (or had him jailed), and removed references to Jerusalem from their prayer books. Today, they are the opposite _ they thirst for Torah, mitzvot, Jerusalem and Israel. The way to build the temple is not to shed their blood, but to encourage them to keep Torah, even partially.
ReplyDeleteConsidering the non-orthodox hate them, shouldn't it be the other way around? Shouldn't they require the others to drop their hatred?
ReplyDeleteWill those who label people "settlers" and blame the religious zionist for middle east unrest alter their views and drop their stupidity? Or just engage them and let them continue to hatemonger because the hate is directed at "just a subsector" of the overall group?
ReplyDeleteThe RZ's need to be engaging the moderate majority and slowly rekindling their interest in Judaism and increasing the Jewish content of the state.
ReplyDeleteThat doesn't happen through entertaining of Reform Judaism delusions. The majority of Israelis reject Deform
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