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2021-12-24T06:43:42.041Z


It is permissible to intervene. Rabbi Arthur Schneier, rabbi of the modern Orthodox synagogue, Park East in New York, is in no hurry to retire. In the tenth decade of his life he is convinced that his former assistant, the young and charismatic rabbi, Benjamin Goldschmidt, is unable to succeed him, even though he managed to bring many young Jews to the synagogue benches, including immigrants from


It is permissible to intervene.

Rabbi Arthur Schneier, rabbi of the modern Orthodox synagogue, Park East in New York, is in no hurry to retire.

In the tenth decade of his life he is convinced that his former assistant, the young and charismatic rabbi, Benjamin Goldschmidt, is unable to succeed him, even though he managed to bring many young Jews to the synagogue benches, including immigrants from Russia.


The confrontation between the two rabbis even reached the pages of the New York Times.

The young man found a building next door to Park East, brought his fans to him and brought upon him the blazing anger of the elderly man, who decided to fire him.


Our Minister of Tourism, Joel Rezbozov, felt the need to go out in favor of the young rabbi, feeling that he was doing so to help immigrants from Russia, and bothered to send a letter - on official paper of his office - to the old rabbi, urging him not to fire Goldschmidt. Then the foam came out on Rezbozov, who dares to interfere in matters not his own, and not only that - to use official paper, as someone who implies that not only he is asking for it, but the Israeli government. He apologized - rightly - for using the paper, but not for intervening (and rightly so).


There are two large communities in the modern Jewish world, and Jewish continuity depends on the relationship between them. American Jews are allowed to interfere in what is happening in Israel (and not just the Western Wall outline), and we are allowed to intervene in matters that take place among American Jews. He who truly believes that we are one people cannot defend the claim that each side should engage only in its own.


American Jews are allowed to support - if that is their position - Israeli peace organizations, as they are allowed to support the settlements. Israelis are allowed to interfere in what is happening in Jewish education in America, in what is happening in Jewish organizations, and even in the struggle that is taking place in the synagogue, where Rabbi Schneier adopted what is said in the Mishnah, in a small tract, that "no two kings serve in one crown." To the body of this controversy, the writer of these lines admits, with due disclosure, that he is agnostic.


Equality for increase.

In 2011, the Knesset decided on the eighth amendment to the Cooperative Societies Ordinance, which stipulated that community localities, the size of which does not exceed 400 families, may filter the candidates to join them through admissions committees.

A new bill, whose parents are MK Bezalel Smutrich and Minister Ayelet Shaked, will soon be discussed in the government, and it proposes to increase the number of families to 600. This means that larger community localities will also be able to filter out those who want to join them.


Liberals oppose this amendment because they fear that admissions committees are a means of preventing Arabs from joining these localities.

The leaders of the Galilee communities claim that in recent years the admissions committees have not rejected any Arab candidate, and the few who applied to join were accepted.

According to them, in localities that exceed the size of the 400 families, and in which the admissions committees stop operating, the uniqueness of the locality is lost, and many young people leave.


Liberals fear that the Supreme Court will interpret in the spirit of the problematic "nationality law" the filtering of non-Jews, and therefore they will vehemently oppose, and rightly so, the increase in the number of localities allowed to filter candidates.


But if, really, the intention of the thinkers of the law is not to harm the Arabs, but to ensure that the localities with the special character remain the same even when they grow a little - the dispute can be resolved by adding the principle of equality to the Nationality Law, and at the same time increase the maximum number Enabling the existence of admissions committees.


A worthy candidate.

Not just because President Biden knelt before her when he heard she had 12 children, and yet it was Presidential Political Adviser Robbie Rivlin.

Not only because she served as Rivlin's adviser to the Speaker of the Knesset. 

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Source: israelhayom

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