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JewishIsrael's Rabbinic Director Sholom Gold has issued a lengthy and comprehensive statementhighly critical of the CJCUC initiated "Orthodox Rabbinic Statement on Christianity".
JewishIsrael's Rabbinic Director Sholom Gold has issued a lengthy and comprehensive statementhighly critical of the CJCUC initiated "Orthodox Rabbinic Statement on Christianity".
Excerpts:
"The 'Orthodox Rabbinic Statement on Christianity'is neither normatively 'Orthodox', nor 'Rabbinic', but it certainly feels 'ecumenical'. In fact, tragically, it reads like the ultimate 'anti-Rav' document – in irreverent defiance of the widely accepted directives on interfaith conduct formulated by Rabbi Riskin's own mentor, Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik Z"L…"
"That such conciliatory gestures are being offered-up in a time where mainline churches - across denominations - are driving the divestment movement and have all but declared war against Israel is unthinkable…"
"It is tragic irony that a theological document that paves the way for Jewish assimilation with Christianity has been introduced by 'Orthodox' rabbis during the Festival of Hanukah"…more