Just ask Israeli Knesset Member, Moshe Gafni. He's the chair of the Knesset's finance committee. He does not mince words:
"The Reform Movement is not a legitimate form of Judaism," Gafni said in a telephone interview [with the Jerusalem Post]. "The Reform are a bunch of treacherous backstabbers to Judaism. They are jokers who operate without hierarchy and without rules." Gafni insisted that "MKs are not a bunch of marionettes who will do whatever the Supreme Court tells them to do. I will block any attempts to provide state funds to Reform."
It really is too bad that the some government leaders would have the State of Israel so inhospitable to Jews. Again, this must be a central part of 21st century Zionism: to build a true democracy, thriving as a Jewish state in Israel. It's possible. It's even likely. We just have to move beyond the Gafni's of the world and let them have Brooklyn and the Catskills.
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