Showing posts with label Rabbi Gilad Kariv. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rabbi Gilad Kariv. Show all posts

Dec 25, 2022

Quote of the Day

The Reform Rabbi once again used his immunity and like the last of the criminals is trampling the regulations of the Kotel Rav, via desecration the holiness of the site and desecrating a sefer torah. Soon this will come to an end.

  -- MK Meir Porush (UTJ), commenting on the actions today of MK Gilad Kariv (Labor) who went to the Kotel this morning to daven with the Women of the Wall and used his immunity to bring in a Torah scroll, which he also raised open (hagba or out of the blue?) (see pic below)

1. how will this soon come to an end? Kariv will remain an MK even after the new government is sworn in and will continue to have immunity. What can they do to stop it? I am curious

2. According to Orthodox opinion and according to halacha, it seems that Reform Torah scrolls do not have holiness (I have heard this over the years many times in shiurim and from rabbis talking about these laws) so how did Kariv desecrate a Torah scroll according to Porush? Unless Porush says Reform torah scrolls do have holiness...







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Apr 11, 2022

Quote of the Day

There are many Orthodox shuls in Tel Aviv that I feel comfortable davening in without hiding. Once a month I additionally make sure to bring my children to daven in an Orthodox minyan. It is important that they should see it and be familiar with it.

   -- MK Gilad Kariv (Labor) 

With Kariv being a Reform rabbi this is an interesting tidbit....


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Feb 3, 2022

go fight for prayer on Har Habayit

Yesterday, the 2nd day of Rosh Chodesh Adar 1, MK Rabbi Gilad Kariv joined the service at the kotel held by the Women of the Wall.

MK Yaakov Asher (UTJ) attacked Kariv (verbally) and said, among other things, "let's see if you have the courage to go with this group of provocative women up to Har Habayit and disturb there with your prayers.

While MK Yaakov Asher is not wrong - the women, and Kariv, fight for equal prayer rights at the Kotel despite it being probvocative and against what most of the people there want, yet they would not dare take the same stand on Har Habayit and support, and fight for, Jewish prayer there as it would upset the Muslims, I find it ironic and humorous to hear Asher encourage people to go to Har Habayit and pray when he is against that too.


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Dec 28, 2021

who owns the club?

We see this again and again. Haredi MKs telling others MKs or Ministers with whom they have disagreements that they aren't Jewish, or aren't religious, and should take off the kipa from their heads.

After the initial attacks after the formation of the new government have settled down somewhat, last night in a special Knesset session for discussion of the new tax on disposable paper goods MK Yaakov Litzman (UTJ) attacked MK Gilad Kariv (Labor). Litzman said Kariv, a Reform rabbi, is a priest, not a rabbi, and should take off his kipa, he is a goy.

First, humorously, plenty of priests also wear a kipa. Just look at the Pope.

Second, agree or disagree with whoever you want on policy or lifestyle or whatever, but what Litzman said, and what other Haredi MKs have said several times to Bennett and others in the government since it was formed, "take off your kipa" or "you are a goy", shows, I think, exactly why they needed some time away from controlling the religious services of the country, or even their influence on the government. They feel that only they get to decide what Judaism is, how it is defined, and who qualifies to be a member. Disagree with Kariv, disagree with Reform Judaism (as has always been the case), disagree with Bennett, disagree with Matan Kahane, but you dont get to decide who is a Jew, who is a goy and who gets to wear a kipa. The Haredi community, or the Haredi politicians, aren't the owners of Judaism and don't get to decide who can be a member and who cannot.


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Oct 7, 2021

Picture of the Day


MK Meir Porush (UTJ) protested in the Knesset Constitutional Committee headed by MK Gilad Kariv (Labor). Kariv, a Reform rabbi, used his Knesset immunity earlier today to bring a Torah into the women's section of the Kotel for the egalitarian minyan (WoW, etc). Porus protested at the start of the session, and Kariv allowed the protest. Porush recited Tehillim aloud, and when pushed to leave, he sat on the floor and continued. After a few minutes Kariv called him to order and Porush refused to get up, insisting on continuing his protest. After 3 calls to order, Porush was forcibly removed from the session. At that point they took a break and Kariv said it is important to allow MK Porush to voice his protest and it is time for the session to get started and hopefully Porush would rejoin after the break. Porush, not a member of the committee, did not return after he eventually left - he called on Kariv to stop his provocation at the Kotel and said you stop going to the Kotel and I will stop coming to the committee.

Porush is the king of antics. I remember when he handcuffed himself to the Knesset podium.







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Jul 28, 2021

MK Kariv vexes MK Deri (video)

hmmmm





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Jun 3, 2021

Quote of the Day

The picture of Bennett and Lapid with Mansour looks more like a picture of them selling their chametz...and if you might ask which is the rabbinic figure, Bennett or Lapid? In the new government with Gilad Kariv, they too can be rabbis..

  -- MK Michael Malkieli (Shas)

lol

this entire experice of the "change government" looks like it will give us a lot of chaos and interesting situations, but also a lot of fun talking and screaming from the Opposition...



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May 31, 2021

Quote of the Day

if the Haredim prefer it, I'll take the Ministry of Religious Affairs

  -- MK Rabbi Gilad Kariv (Labor)

Kariv is set to be Minister of Diaspora Affairs, if the Bennett-Lapid government gets formed and the finals appointments happen according to what is expected. The Haredi parties are upset that Kariv is set to be a minister, and Minister of Diaspora Affairs at that (a position in which he can use to work to strengthen ties between the State of Israel and Reform leadership and communities abroad).

It is a cute thing to say, which is why he gets QotD, but I said it first the other day shortly after the potential appointment became known to the public. 






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May 30, 2021

Headline of the Day

Yesh Atid and Labor Signed a Coalition Agreement: The "Reformi" will be Minister of the Diaspora



thoughts:
1. This ministry is one of those that should have been done away with, so I am a little disappointed.
2. Kikar should be happy MK Rabbi Gilad Kariv was not set to be appointed as Minister of Religious Affairs. I could have seen that happening. And I wonder what Kikar would have written had that happened. They would have been apoplectic.
3. It is looking more and more like the little chance there was for the "change government" to be formed might actually happen. It all seems to depend on what Bennett announces some time today, but it looks like the sense right now is that it will happen in some way. That does not mean it will be functional or long-lasting, but it looks like it might happen.




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Apr 27, 2021

Quote of the Day

I will use the opportunity [of being a member of the Knesset Finance Committee] very well to safeguard the interests of the public and to fight for a fair society and a just economy. The chairman, MK Moshe Gafni has 20 years history of a complicated relationship with me. not surprisingly, the skies did not fall when he gave me the right to speak. With a full heart I wished him success.

  -- MK Gilad Kariv (Labor)

this is one of those relationships that is going to be interesting to watch in the Knesset. Hopefully the elections that will come sooner or later won't rob us of this opportunity..



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Feb 21, 2021

he can't be part of the coalition or mincha

This is pretty funny. Times of Israel is reporting that the Haredi MKs, from both Shas and UTJ, are writing off the Labor party as future coalition partners. 

Why? 


Because the fourth slot in the Labor list for Knesset is a Reform rabbi, Rabbi Gilad Kariv. 

That's not the funny part of this though. 

The funny part is that they said not only will they not sit with him in a coalition, but they also won't count him for a minyan in the Knesset shul. They said they won't throw him out of the shul (would they even be able to if they wanted to?) but they will make sure they have ten men, a minyan, without him, and he can be the 11th and on.

So, no coalition with the Haredi MKs and no mincha either.

Haredim not counting the Reform as part of a minyan is nothing new, so this isn't surprising, but it is cute how they linked the two.

More coming, in the next post, on the coalition issue.






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