Chief Rabbi Reportedly Made Deal With The Devil To Get Elected
The new haredi Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel David Lau secretly
promised haredi leaders before his election that all of his rulings
regarding conversions to Judaism would be submitted to notorious haredi
Rabbi Avraham Sherman – the man who voided thousands of Zionist Orthodox conversions to Judaism in 2008 – for review before Lau issues them.
Ashkenazi Chaief Rabbi of Israel David Lau
Chief Rabbi Reportedly Made Deal With Anti-Zionist-Orthodox Conversion Hawks To Get Elected
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
The Israeli daily Ma’ariv has reported that the new haredi Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel David Lau secretly promised haredi leaders before his election that all of his rulings regarding conversions to Judaism would be submitted to notorious haredi Rabbi Avraham Sherman for review before Lau issues them.
In 2008, Sherman infamously ruled that thousands of conversions to Judaism done by Zionist Orthodox rabbis in the state’s conversion framework were invalid. Sherman issued that ruling at the behest of then-haredi leader Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv.
In a conversation with Ma’ariv, Sherman confirmed Lau’s deal with haredi leaders.
“Rabbi Lau told [Elyashiv’s former chief of staff] Rabbi [Yosef] Efrati that on all matters regarding conversions he would come to talk to me and consult in me before reaching a decision, because I have been involved in these issues as a confidant of Rabbi Elyashiv, and I am familiar with his rulings on these matters,” Sherman said.
Lau – who ran as a ‘moderate’ haredi who claimed he wanted to reach out to everyone, not just haredim, is now widely viewed as a liar who sold his soul to the proverbial devil to get elected.
Lau also made a racist remark about Black basketball players last week.
Earlier this week, Ma’ariv reported that a senior member of the rabbinate’s testing team that proctors and administers Smicha (ordination) exams had signed an affidavit asserting that Lau was given the exam questions and answers before he took his ordination test.
Lau is the son of former haredi Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel Yisrael Meir Lau.
This is why I care about the chief rabbinate. The torah tells us not to oppress gerim, but unless they are super-dooper ultra-Orthodox, it's not enough for these fucks. (Simple torah observant Modern Orthodox or Zionist Orthodox is not good enough- you must become an extra on Fiddler on the Fucking Roof.)
Posted by: Yochanan Lavie | August 05, 2013 at 07:49 AM
I had defended him as a boring non flamboyant jerk that couldn't be harmful. I was mistaken. He is also one of those who speaks at best from 2 sides of his mouth. (no different from his father).
His father, the holocaust kid saved by catholic priest then Karol Vojtila, oops no, Abdul Karim Jabbar's father, oops, no, maybe it was AKJ's uncle.
Oops, moslems? they are no longer in style. Probably it was the Angel Gabriel, al tishlach yadekha el hana-ar.
Posted by: Yosef ben Matitya | August 05, 2013 at 10:32 AM
all done behind closed doors, the 'spineless inquisitor'.
Posted by: Yosef ben Matitya | August 05, 2013 at 10:34 AM
The evil charedi fools known as gedolim strike again. deals like this combined with the disgraceful words and actions of lau and most of the past chief rabbis of israel are what ensures that the vast majority of israelis will continue to want nothing to do with religious judaism. and thats a good thing.
Posted by: ah-pee-chorus | August 05, 2013 at 02:11 PM
this guy is not a godol by any extent of the imagination. he is a boring nebekh-bigot.
Posted by: Yosef ben Matitya | August 06, 2013 at 10:40 AM