Chief Rabbi David Lau told the prime minister Tuesday that he will not approve any future conversions to Judaism as long as the government continues to advance a plan to ease the process and dilute the Chief Rabbinate’s control over it.
Lau’s move, which drew condemnation and demands that he be fired, came as Religious Affairs Minister Matan Kahana pushes reforms on some key religion and state issues, including conversion and kosher certification.
Kahana’s proposed legislation would allow for conversions outside the auspices of the Chief Rabbinate, authorizing municipal rabbis to supervise the process.
Last year he was freezing funerals...
ReplyDeleteI had hopes for him when he became Chief Rabbi but now he's just acting like another "Chareidi first and only" appointee.
ReplyDelete"In the mid-1960s, Rabbi Dr. Samuel Belkin offered Rav Shach the position of senior rosh yeshivah at Yeshiva University in New York, which he politely declined"
ReplyDeleteFrom Wikipedia of rav shach..