Agudath Israel & Reform Judaism Form Alliance & Partnership

Following is a rebuttal by Yisrael Medad of claims by Reform Rabbi Eric Yoffie that allowing Jews to pray on the Temple Mount will ignite a holy war with the Muslim world. 

Yisrael Medad is a veteran Temple Mount ascender and activist, being among the earliest to ascend the Temple Mount following its liberation in the 1967 Six Day War. 

While we would not have found it justified to post Eric Yoffie's article on its own (lack of (merit), Yisrael Medad's rebuttal is brilliant and worth reading. - Temple Institute

THE AGUDAH AND REFORM JUDAISM JOIN FORCES

https://www.jns.org/opinion/the-agudah-and-reform-judaism-join-forces/

The Reform Rabbi Eric Yoffie and the haredi Rabbi Avi Shafran must confront their failings to history, human rights and the value of Judaism.

By Yisrael Medad

(September 17, 2021 / JNS) We have witnessed a remarkable development as a result of the publication of an article by Rabbi Meir Soloveitchik in Commentary titled “The Real Truth About the Temple Mount,” which suggested that “the government of Israel owes it to its citizens, and thousands of years of Jewish history, to state unequivocally that the Temple Mount, and not the Western Wall, is the locus of Jewish longing.” He also did express sympathy for those seeking to ascend to the Temple Mount, enclosed within the Muslim Haram A-Sharif compound, so that they could continue to pray in writing, “For those who care deeply about the Jewish connection to the Mount, and who desperately desire to pray there, it may well be that today it will be achieved first and foremost with finesse.”

For Soloveitchik, what is important is foremost “Jewish visits.”

The development? He caused the public-affairs director of Agudath Israel of America, Rabbi Avi Shafran, to unite in common cause against Rabbi Soloveitchik’s views with Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president emeritus of the Union for Reform Judaism. A true “only Jewish” accomplishment.

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Photo: Yisrael Medad on the Temple Mount.

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