Haaretz
On Monday, Army Radio quoted Neeman as having said that "step by step, we will bestow upon the citizens of Israel the laws of the Torah and we will turn Halakha into the binding law of the nation," at a Jewish law convention at the Regency hotel in Jerusalem, in the presence of many rabbis and rabbinical judges.
"We must bring back the heritage of our fathers to the nation of Israel," Neeman said. "The Torah has the complete solution to all of the questions we are dealing with," he added.
Neeman's statements during the conference were received with applause from participants, among them Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.
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A Jewish Taliban!..How original!
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And this in the NYT:
ReplyDelete"JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's justice minister called for Jewish law to become binding in Israel, causing a stir Tuesday that cut to the heart of the country's simmering secular-religious divide.
Yaakov Neeman's office tried to contain the uproar Tuesday by saying his words were taken out of context and that he had no intention of replacing Israel's current legal system. But his comments touched a raw nerve among secular Israelis wary of what they consider to be religious coercion by the Orthodox Jewish minority."
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/12/08/world/AP-ML-Israel-Justice-Minister.html
Yes, I mentioned something about this on Mondo, when the man (Neeman) was mouthing off -
ReplyDeleteI wonder how the announcement of the adoption of all the Papal Bulls in predominately Catholic countries would go over? lol Shall we unearth all the historic rabbinic deliberations in regard to Torah? (in regard to your 12:25 pm post). It is goals like Neeman’s which will undo Israel from within just as fast as external opposition, in fact we can have a front row seat to watch it self-destruct.
Guest is me...
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