Chief Rabbis Intensify Fight for Right-to-Life

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rav-amar-rav-metzgerThe Ashkenazi and Sephardi chief rabbis of Israel stepped up their campaign for right-to-life in recent days, sending a letter to local rabbonim employing religious arguments to encourage them to dissuade women in their communities from terminating pregnancies.

In their letters to the chief rabbis of several cities, neighborhoods and communities across the country, Rabbi Yona Metzger and Rabbi Shlomo Amar cited a study conducted two years ago by the non-profit group Efrat showing that 50,000 terminated pregnancies were carried out annually in Israel – 30,000 of them in violation of government regulations.

According to the rabbis, the data point to “a real epidemic, as tens of thousands of Jewish souls are being lost each year … In addition to the enormity of the transgression, it is also delaying redemption.”

The rabbis attributed no particular significance to the timing of the letter, other than that next week’s parsha is Shemos, describing the Jewish midwives saving male babies from execution on the orders of Paroh.

Ronit Ehrenfreund-Cohen, the department head of WIZO’s Status of Women Division, condemned the rabbis’ letter for “violating the essence and values of the society and country in which we live, which also pays their salaries.”


2 COMMENTS

  1. If one would total all the soldiers killed in all the Israeli wars and add that to the
    number murdered in all the suicide bombings done to Jews in Israel, even throw in the massacre in Chevron in 1929,and this number doesn’t even come near to the amount of abortions performed in one year in Israel!!!!HASHEM YERACHAM!!!

  2. Reminder to oneself: Efrat (mentioned on article) does a superb job. have been helpin them for the past 4 years. Highly recommend it!!!

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