The Ashkenazi ultra-Orthodox journal Yated Neeman launched a direct attack on Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, an adjudicator of religious law and spiritual leader of the political party Shas, over his decision to confirm that conversions to Judaism performed by military rabbis are legal from a religious standpoint.
The Yated Neeman article said that Yosef’s decision was shocking, a “desecration of God’s name,” and an inversion of clear decisions of religious law which will likely lead to “increased danger of major assimilation among the people of Israel.”
ASSIMILATION!!!!! God forbid!
The paragraphs in parenthesis are taken from this HaAretz article; Haredi journal: Rabbi Yosef’s approval of IDF conversions ‘a desecration’
As I see it the only thing being desecrated these days is the name of Jewish people themselves. The recent edicts of the rabbis have caused many people throughout the world look more carefully at the Jewish people as a whole, not realising that these rabbis speak for a, thankfully, small percentage of Jews and Israelis in general.
Those who chose to follow these misinformed ‘leaders’ of the Flock will eventually inbreed themselves out of existence. Perhaps only then will there be a reawakening of reality in the religious community.
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