Reform Leaders Organized ‘Lynch' Against Hotovely'

'Reform leaders organized 'lynch' against Hotovely'

NY rabbi says Deputy Foreign Minister is correct in saying US Jews don't serve in army as Israelis do.

Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld, the Rosh Kehilla (Community Rabbi) of the Young Israel of Queens, accused the American Reform and Conservative Movements of launching a 'lynch' against Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely.

"What happened with [Deputy] Minister Hotovely is disgraceful," Rabbi Schonfeld said in an interview with Arutz Sheva. "She made a statement which I believe is correct."

"She wasn't picking on Jews. What she was saying is that the American people do not send their kids off to war...like the Israelis do. There isn't a mishpacha (family) in Israel that doesn't send their child off to the war, or to active battle, or to possible battle. And the American people don't understand that,

"This was a lynch against Hotovely all organized by the Reform and Conservative [leaders] all purely for political consumption," he said.


Source: ArutzSheva