Israel – The chief rabbi of the Israeli settlement of Teqoam, which some Palestinians regard as illegal, condemned Jewish settlers for allegedly setting a mosque alight in the early morning hours of December 11. The mosque was located in the northern West Bank village of Yasouf.
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Said Menachem Froman to local media, “This is just insanity, blasphemy, an insult to the Judaism before Islam.” “What [these] settlers did does not represent the settlers, nor Jews,” Froman added.
Rabbi Froman vowed that he would lead a large group of Israeli settlers to help the Palestinian village rebuild its mosque as penitence for “the crime that was committed by the settlers.”
Rabbi Shlomo Amar, who leads Israel Sephardic Jews, is expected to issue his own denunciation on Sunday, December 13, following the Jewish Sabbath. Fromer said. Rabbi Amar had intended to condemn the arson on Friday, but was apparently unable to do so by sundown Friday evening, the beginning of the Jewish Sabbath.
Rabbi Froman asked that his deep regret be expressed to Palestinians for the incident. The Jewish religion prohibits attacks on religious shrines, he added.
this act of kindness will kindle the arab’s love of jews. they will return our goodness and fix all that they have destroyed. lol!
Regardless of what I think about what has happened, to call Rav (?) Fruman the Chief Rabbi of Tekoa is completely inaccurate. Most- if not all of the people in the settlement do not agree with him and his twisted ways of befriending Arab terrorists and he is not considered the Rav there.
her come the apologists who cave in to the emotions of killers! where were the arab leaders when the arabs blew up buses and pizzerias the last decade? where are the so called leaders of Gaza condemning the inhumane treatment of Gilad Shalit? of course, it’s only the jews who have the urge to do it. well, maybe this has been the state of isreal’s problem since it was created?
Why are we so hypocritical? They destroyed the shul by Yosef Hatzadik and nothing is said by anyone.
When did they apologize for the Chevron masacre? Am I missing something? Do we not realise the ramification of these apologistics. I’m wondering if building a mokoim tumeh is for any reason is mutter? Anyhow wait and see what kind of venom & hate will be discharged out of the seweage at their pulpit one day. Just wait!!!
A nice, though ultimately useless, gesture.
There is no excuse to torch a mosque. Where can I make a contribution to Rabbi Froman’s effort?
Sometimes it is appropiate to keep quiet…this is one of those situations…please alert the OU to the same fact….one less mosque IN Eretz Yisrael is no great loss…
i never knew that the rabbis ware shtreimels in the west bank; i thought it’s only a Brooklyn thing
The Rambam ruled the Muslims are not idolators but many other Poskim (ie Brisker Rav) have ruled that they are Gerei Toshav. It is an aveirah to destroy the place of prayer of Gerei Toshav and we must rebuild it and punish the offenders. That is the halacha.
We do not change the halacha to reflect the political views of our new “friends” the Evangelical Christians because we want them to give us more money.
“The Jewish religion prohibits attacks on religious shrines, he added.”
Where is this prohibition to be found? And where did he find a heter for building a shrine to a false religion? The Rambam says we must suppress all false religions, if we are able to do so; is there a single rishon who says otherwise?
It sounds too pat. It reminds one of the other setups by the secret
agency in Israel that use provacateurs to commit these crimes so that the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria can be blamed. How many times do they use this and think, no one will catch on. This game is constantly being used and most people in Israel realize it by now. They need to deligitimize the communities, any which way! There seems to be infiltrators (spies) living within some of the communities in order to cause these types of incidents on purpose. Seems the world is on the brink!
There were some carpet burns in the mosque. Why do they assume that the settlers did it?
They should start burning more mosques and mayb then the arabs will get some shock and quite down a bit! Give them a taste of they’re own product!
It is high time that the Jews started fighting back.
There are 8 days of Chanuka. There should me 8 fires burning by next Shabbat. Doesn’t the possuk say “Ubiarta ha’rah me’kir’becha?? You should burn the bad from your midst?
condamning the act is what the jewish representants should do… helping rebuilt them in any way… I don’t think it’s a good thing, helping repairing their mosque to wrongly pray G-d isn’t something we should do
I cringe when I hear the word “settlers” we are NOT settlers.
why do pple posting even write this? And for all you liberals out there who care more about the arabs than your own Jewish people, get a life!
i feel that all zionist settlers are blind and misguided? let them try to trace there origins they find out that the palestians are the real jewish decendants and not all those blood-money thirsty converts from the ‘thirteenth tribe’ no wonder they feel so unsecure on earth that they all have to confine themselves in an occupied land. HELL await all of you. Kol nidre better come soon for you to have fun