Comments on: So you say you’re a Jew … Prove it!

By: ‘How to Prove You’re a Jew’ - Afterthoughts, aftershocks « South Jerusalem: Gershom Gorenberg and Haim Watzman

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:44:08 +0000

[...] some people who wrote to me, or who commented in various places online, would like to believe that the rabbinate only causes problems for people [...]

By: Yonason Wolff

Yonason Wolff — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:25:25 +0000

According to articles I have read in New York Jewish Week and elsewhere, a problem exists only as to recognition of RCA supervised conversions by the Israeli rabbinical establishment - if there really is a larger issue, then Rabbi Farber knows things that the larger Jewish press, frum and not frum does not. Hmmm?

By: Rabbi Hershel Billet

Rabbi Hershel Billet — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:15:52 +0000

I find the comments of Rabbi Seth Farber in this article and in others to be very irresponsible, false,alarmist, and misleading. I hope that Rabbi Farber’s remarks are taken out of context. He has much important work to do in Israel without making incendiary comments which create false fires here and fan the flames of divisiveness.
Rabbi Hershel Billet
Woodmere, NY