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Israel's top Ashkenazi rabbi was targeted on Sunday for refusing to acknowledge in a newspaper interview that the Pittsburgh massacre had been perpetrated in a synagogue.
In reporting this event, the country's ultra-Orthodox newspapers also refused to admit that it took place in a Jewish house of prayer because Tree of Life was a conservative congregation and they did not recognize unorthodox movements.
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In the interview granted to Makor Rishon, a popular newspaper in the modern Israeli Orthodox community, Rabbi David Lau stated that "any murder of a Jew in any part of the world to be Jewish is unforgivable". performed in a synagogue, he described the place as "place with a deep Jewish flavor".
Responding on Twitter, Yizhar Hess, executive director of the conservative movement in Israel, rhetorically asked, "Really, Chief Rabbi of Israel? A place with a deep Jewish flavor? Maybe a synagogue?
Tomer Persico, an Israeli scholar of prominent religion, tweeted in response: "The Chief Rabbi Lau refuses to say that it was a synagogue. And it was while Jews were murdered while praying. "
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"Even on the halic plane, it's a synagogue," added Persico, referring to the fact that conservative Judaism follows halakha, Jewish religious law. "It's the face of the orthodox establishment: petty, detached, archaic and hateful."
The ultra-Orthodox newspapers in Israel have all reported on the attack, but have also refused to call Tree of Life a synagogue, preferring to call it the "Jewish center".
It is estimated that 18% of American Jews are affiliated with the conservative movement. Israel's refusal to recognize unorthodox movements is a major cause of tension with the Jewish diaspora.
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