{"id":911,"date":"2012-06-20T12:13:54","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T18:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=911"},"modified":"2012-06-22T05:12:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T11:12:58","slug":"jfna-condemns-israeli-chief-rabbis-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/jfna-condemns-israeli-chief-rabbis-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"JFNA condemns Israeli chief rabbi&#8217;s statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reacting to a statement aired Tuesday over Israeli radio by <strong>Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar<\/strong>, the <strong>Jewish Federations of North America<\/strong> (<strong>JFNA<\/strong>) issued a firm condemnation in rebuttal today. \u00a0In speaking over <strong>Kol Berama,<\/strong> a haredi radio station, Amar was quoted as calling non-Orthodox rabbis detrimental to &#8220;the foundations of Judaism.&#8221; He went on to state \u00a0that these non-Orthodox rabbis are causing &#8220;great damage&#8221; and &#8220;great danger&#8221; to the Jewish people. &#8221; It is well known that the greatest danger in our times is assimilation and they recklessly enable this phenomenon,&#8221; Amar said. The statement by the JFNA read that &#8220;It is a fundamental Jewish virtue to &#8216;love your fellow as yourself.&#8217; We condemn comments that that disparage fellow Jews and, in particular, well-established branches of Judaism that represent 80 percent of North American Jewry.&#8221; The statement advocated for a continued, pluralistic dialog in which all members of the Jewish people would be considered as equals.\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span> <!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"JFNA%20condemns%20Israeli%20chief%20rabbi%27s%20statement\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,27],"tags":[8781,8790,141,143,8788,142],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":952,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions\/952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}