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Simon Rocker

Anger over anti-Zionist Rebbe’s visit

November 04, 2009 15:50

Religious Zionists are up in arms over an impending visit this week by the anti-Zionist Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok Rebbe to a synagogue built by the late Rabbi Walter Wurzburger, a leading light in American modern Orthodoxy.
You can read more on the Honestly Frum blog.
“Is this a smart move?” wondered an editorial in the local
Jewish Star
, which reports on Long Island Orthodoxy. It noted: “The Rebbe’s followers — at least a good number of them — are thugs and criminals who created an unprecedented desecration of G-d’s name with their violent street protests in Jerusalem.”

November 04, 2009 15:50

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