Yesterday, the shul in Riverdale headed by Avi Weiss, the founder of the Open Orthodox Yeshivat Chovevei Torah and the promoter of Open Orthodox thought and the ordination of women, held its Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Concert featuring Reverend Roger Hambrick, The Green Pastures Baptist Choirthe Green Pastures Baptist Church Choir and the SAR High School Choir.
In the actual shul sanctuary, a co-ed choir sang songs as the mixed audience clapped along.
Watch the following with caution. It is being shown here only for people to realize the threat that Weiss and his cohorts pose to normative Orthodoxy.
VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED/PORTIONS CONTAIN KOL ISHA
{Matzav.com Newscenter}
Matzav is doing a bad job.
It’s totally krum to bring down these stuff
absolutely. disgusting. revolting.
So in the name of Kanous against YCT you’re allowed to post It?
This is on shabbos????
Hashem Yishmor!!!
He should rename his yeshiva to “Yeshiva Ovrei Aveira”!
And instead of calling his women rabbis ” rabba “, they should be called ” Rasha “!
let me see if i have this straight. you’re advising “viewer discretion” when watching this due to “kol isha”, right? a hypothetical question, if you don’t mind. ould (at least, i hope you would!)! so why on earth would you air a video with “kol isha”??
i always thought “matzav” was a “torahdige” website. i’m beginning to realize that it ain’t necessarily so. what is this world coming to??
Perhaps you can obtain from the FBI their videos
Why exactly is this relevant to a frum website such as Matzav & it’s readership.
Disgusting beyond; al eileh ani bochia,,,,,,,,,
Why exactly is this pertinent to a frum website such as Matzav & it’s readership?!
Disgusting beyond words; al Eileh ani bochia,,,,,,,,
To show what that oicher yisroel does is as relevant as what the catholic church does even worse. hes a maiss umadiach hurabim that moriden velo malin
Please don’t call it a shul. Halachicly it has a din of bais haminim(as per kol koireh ) so one may not enter it ….rather go into a church see mes shabbos
Wow this is nuts. So sad. Tremendous embarrassment to the shul. What a crazy and confusing education for those high school kids…. iyh they should all do teshuva
Thank you for having the courage to show the oilam what the threat is from these people who call themselves orthodox and how far they really are.
Is it mutta al pi halacha
#modox
so basically, he is reform.
is it muttar to post such a video???
Whats the heter to post such a video???
This video does not belong on a frum website.
I wish the Torah had some prohibition against saying bad things about other Jews
And how will this effect the shidduch crises?
# 21 well, the torah says that on a maysis umadiach you you should not ‘ cover up, not have pity on them but ‘route the evil from your midst. ad if it bdothers you what is said here shous your also a mumur lhachis’
Jacob N
It does…its called LOSHON HARA.
Never heard of it?
How can you view the videos with a kosher internet…. ??
#24 Loshon horah is only when not known. . A fact that more than 3 personx know loshen doesn’t apply , eirchun 16b. But as pointed out , a heretic that sins and makes others sin he torah says you shall route from your midst and puplicly proclaim him evil so as people should keep away from him…
How precious to the RBSH to see his children singing together in peace, love and harmony. May we truly see this everywhere in the world. What an unbelievable kiddush hashem.
Avi weiss has been around for years . Who pays him any attention other then yated and matzav.com?
Anon..
Nice joke…..
But you are seriously ill.
#27 and wouldn’t it be a greater Kiddish Hashem if we become all Chtris… (sic)and all Hasems children worship same(sic)
To editors of Matzav…I don’t think you should allow such posters as #27. You have a great responsibility of ‘shama asu lamshichay absrei’ .Most people reading are not so strong in emunah and….Remember ,by the riboni shel oilom you don’t have free speech no matter what the US constitution says. If someone becomes influenced because of what some poster posts your a goirom.
Nothing wrong with an educational program about MLK, but I have to wonder if the Baptist church choir performance isn’t better attended than daily minyanim there.
#27. Anon. If your the same Anon that we see your posts on other torah news sites, this post proves beyond shadow of doubt what koifer you are. And to call this’ KIDDISH HASHEM’?! (SIC, SIC) You are pure and simple acknowledging avoa zarah
I enjoyed the concert immensely and thank Rav Avi Weiss for hosting it!
That was a beautiful program. Thank you for posting the video. I look forward to seeing more of the positive things that Avi Weiss and his shul are doing for his community and the Jewish community at large. What a beautiful kiddish Hashem. Kol Hakavod.
#to m. seager was wondering what Kiddush hashem here?…its more kidduh tamay like metamay thorim umetahare temayim’.. so we confused
Since you are providing videos of non Jewish celebrations (open orhtodoxy is not Jewry any more than reform or conservative is) you should show the St. Patrick Cathedral celebration as well as the Ebenezer Baptist Church celebration. You should also look for some Mosque celebration but you probably won’t find one.
Yanklowitz of OO is probably not Jewish since his conversion was done without kabolas mitzvos since he doesn’t accept the Torah Shbaal Peh.
While I appreciate the motive, I do not see how there could be any halachic justification for having trinitarians praise their Lord in your synagogue, or indeed causing them to do so altogether. I have to agree with those who wonder why this belongs on matzav.com any more than any Conservative service would.
where is the kiddush hashem in singing gospel music in front of the aron kodesh?
reminds us of nebuchadnetzer and others we lament on tisha b’av who brought the ‘tzelem b’heichel’