The Jewish Week, August 16th, 1996
Larry Derfner The Jewish Week 08-16-1996 A Modest Proposal. One of the lessons learned from the unfortunate episode triggered by the Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel's recent intemperate about Reform Jewry is that there is no real forum for religious dialogue between Jews of differing denominations, in this country or in Israel. Much has been reported in these pages in the last few weeks over what Rabbi Bakshi-Doron said, what he meant to say, and how it was interpreted. He claims that his description of the Biblical sinner Zimri as "the first Reform Jew" was part of a Sabbath sermon whose po...
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