Three news items recently surfaced in the same week.
1) America’s Reform movement states that 50% of their rabbis now officiate at marriages between Jews and non-Jews even without quickie Reform conversions. In effect the movement offering no objections to this behavior now sanctions raw intermarriage.
2) The Israeli Chief Rabbinate reacts angrily and calls the non-Orthodox movements “destroyers and saboteurs of Judaism.”
3) Non-Orthodox groups around the word including the supposedly non-partisan Council of Jewish Federations in America attack the Chief Rabbinate with the usual vitriol: “medieval … entrenched … intolerant … corrupt … divisive.” The list of epithets goes on and on.
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