Warsaw, Poland – A spokesman says four rabbis educated in Germany were ordained in southwestern Poland in a sign of reviving Jewish life in mainly Catholic Poland.
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The rare ceremony Tuesday at the White Stork Synagogue in Wroclaw was held a day after the 75th anniversary of the German attack on Poland, which sparked World War II and the Holocaust that wiped out much of Europe’s Jewish citizens.
Among some 350 attendees, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said that Jewish communities should be at the heart of every society and condemned anti-Semitism.
Hartmut Bomhoff, of the Abraham Geiger College in Potsdam, Germany, said Wednesday the ordination of its graduates marked 140 years since the death of Geiger, a Jewish scholar who founded Europe’s first modern rabbinical seminary in Wroclaw in 1854.
Nebach. Lo Aleinu.
The oridination of Reform rabbis is a sign that Chabad and others needs to get more involved in Germany so the people won’t be mislead by kefirah.
The sin that caused the holocaust is at it again.
I female Rabbi. What is the reform movement thinking.
The good news? Reform is dying out in the future. The reality? European jewry is so broken that dirty soul satisfaction like reform judaism might still find a way. Very horrible.
To those of you haters who make such vile comments about yesterday’s granting of smicha to these new rabbonim and rabbonot, your words will come back to haunt you. These are yidden whose hashkafah we may disagree with but they will provide needed guidance and leadership to rapidly assimilating yiddeshe community. They are the future of what many call the alte heim, in the tradition of our grandparent and great-grandparents.
Jew hating by the antasemits is the same as reform hating by the frum.
Reform is not Judaism.
These phony practitioners of this deviant religion called Reform are out to fool as many people as possible into believing that Reform is somehow the “new” Judaism. Don’t be fooled. It is not.
Looking at the females wearing tzitzis makes me want to vomit on the future. That is like thinking that there is a god who has a nazi salute. How horrible.