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ULTRA-ORTHODOX RABBIS DISCREDIT AND
DEFAME REFORM AND CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM
A few years ago at a meeting of the Chief Rabbinate Council held in Jerusalem , Ultra-Orthodox 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 they should be judged as filthy, lying, vermin who are criminals, who brought about the holocaust on the Jewish people". Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, former Chief Sepharadi Rabbi of Israel, and spiritual head of the Shas Ultra-Orthodox party 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.