Excerpt from this day’s program:
…So tomorrow vote on legalizing the outposts, and the muezzin headache law, yesterday evening Shas came up with a bill formally outlawing Reform-style payer anywhere along the Western wall. In effect, it attacks to destroy the separate allotted platform south of Robinson’s Arch which has been up for some time and the most recent promise from the prime minister to the so-called Reform leaders to expand it or something. Shas’s bill is a take no prisoners assault on the Reform and I support that, if only because I find them so twisted in their thinking. It insults my love of reason that HaShem gave me. The invasion of the women’s prayer section at the Wall by that crowd carrying Torah scrolls uncovered by a talis offended Orthodox Jews but the Reformers did not care. They see in the separation of the sexes at prayer as some sort of infringement of their civil rights, which Orthodox Jewish men impose on women because they think they are dirty and evil… |