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Nov 2, 2014
Shame on Shas
letter published from Rabbi Shalom Gold
Shame on Shas
It was reported in the Jerusalem
Post of October 30 (page 10) in an article with regard to the latest US administration's
ugly personal attacks on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that Naftali
Bennett, Yuli Edelstein and others protested the insulting remarks. Yuli
Edelstein said, "When the Prime Minister of Israel is insulted in this way
all Israelis are insulted." Since then many political figures in the
United States have joined the chorus of condemnation.
The article then says – please hold
onto your seats: "Shas MK Yacov Margi, however, said that Netanyahu earned
the insult from the US, and that there is no reason to complain about the
Americans." Of this the Medrash in Shir Hashirim says, "Crush the
mouths of those who speak ill of Israel."
Shame on Margi. When a fellow Jew is
attacked we are all attacked. How does he dare give credence to ugly remarks
made against our and his fellow Jewish Prime Minister? Has he lost all sense of
decency and propriety. Does Margi have a right to serve as a Member of Knesset?
We call on all outraged fellow Jews
to protest this disgusting display of Jewish anti-Semitism. We call on the Shas
leadership to disavow this statement; to censure Yaakov Margi; to issue a
public retraction; to make public an apology to the Prime Minister –
immediately.
Please send your protest to the Shas
e-mails listed here.
Rabbi Boruch Taub, Rabbi Emeritus of Beit Avraham Yosef
of Thornhill, presently in Netanya, joins me in this protest and request.
Shavua Tov,
Sholom Gold
Har Nof
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This seems a bit hollow in an atmosphere where anything which mocks chareidim goes viral, and no non-chareidi seems to care.
ReplyDeletebefore you stop treating sepharadim as second class you can' t really say anything
ReplyDeleteif sefardi leadership earns its headlines with sensationalist statements against other jews maybe they are putting themselves in the second class arena without "our" help
ReplyDeleteIf this would have been titled "Shame on Margi", it would have some merit. Since it was titled "Shame on Shas", it can be deemed totally political and loses any merit it may have had.
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