Ultra-Orthodox and Haredi groups continue their campaign to discredit and defame the Supreme Court and 
Reform and Conservative Judaism

Supreme Court Justice  Mishal Heshin, decried  the derogatory words of  former Chief Safaradi Rabbi and spiritual leader of the Ultra-Orthodox Shas Party, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef  in one of his weekly sermons who condemed the Justices of the Supreme Court as "Evil, impure men, who reject  Judaism and revolt against it"  At meetings of the Chief Rabbinate Council held in Jerusalem, leading Ultra-Orthodox Rabbis again vociferously  attacked the legitimacy of Conservative and Reform Judaism. Rabbi Shloosh of Netanya declared that "Reform Jews are worse than Christians and war should be declared against them". Rabbi Shimon Ben Haim, former Director General of the Ministry of Religion said "...if we allow Reform Rabbis to perform marriages then why not Catholic priests?" In an editorial in the Ultra-Orthodox newspaper of the Belzer Hassidim, "HaMachaneh HaHardi", the editor, Rabbi Yisrael Eichler wrote that "Reform Rabbis are further from Judaism than Christians and Moslems and that they should be judged as filthy, lying, vermin who are criminals, who brought about the holocaust on the Jewish people".  In an earlier event Rabbi Ovadia Yosef,declared in one of his weekly sermons, that " Reform Jews should be vomited up...and thrown out of the country. They should be forbidden from settling in Israel...they have no place in Israel since they are a separate people." In another event, Orthodox fanatics  tore the mezuzah off the door and threw excrement on the walls of a Conservative Synagogue.

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