U.S.-based rabbi: Edict against renting to Arabs endangers Jews abroad

In general -- it was a very bad car. Is Rabbi Pinto related to Ford Pinto?

Rabbi you learned nothing from history. Maybe this is too secular for you. In history you have the Trojan Horse. You rent or sell to them you made a Trojan hosre that destroyed Troy. Do you know what you are saying. You cannot hide they hate in New York they will come and get you there Arabs want to destroy you as they do all of Israel (ALL JEWS).

Why should we accommodate people who hate us. You think renting or selling to them they will change. They want to destroy us. Perhaps a few sheiks will send a few billion to buy Israel and not rent to us or maybe sponsor them to destroy us. Rockets and wars have not worked. This Rabbi is not living in Israel he has his own USA interests in mind. He is blinded by his own interests. If he thinks this will protect him well Rabbi Pinto good luck on your own. Let your daughters marry them and you can call yourself Mendelssohn. I think that is where he may be heading by what he says. We do not sell our Souls and our land and that is what you want us to do for what. Israel is only Jewish. Let the whole world stand on its head it will not change.

BS'D IF RABBI PINTO IS SO CONCERNED THAT THE LETTER SIGNED BY RABBIS AGAINST RENTING PROPERTY TO ARABS IN ISRAEL MAY JEOPARDIZE JEWS LIVING IN NEW YORK...AS AN INFLUENTIAL SPIRITUAL LEADER..HE SHOULD LEAD AMERICAN JEWS ON ALIYAH TO THE JEWISH HOMELAND,..INSTEAD OF MAKING INANE SUCH REMARKS THAT GIVE AID AND COMFORT TO ANTI-SEMITES! (See website:www.shuva.net)

The the letter by 50 rabbis prohibiting Jews to rent or sell property to Arabs is by any definition racist. It is however not as racist as throwing 800000 people out of a country because they are "arabs" or as racist as occupying the land where millions of "Arabs" live or as racist as slowly building "Jew only"villages on "Arab" land. I do not think the letter makes much difference other than opening the eyes of some about what happens in Israel. For some it might make it harder to remember that millions of people of Jews religion do not automatically condone everything that happens in Israel or what some Rabbis say.

We can't live in fear. The reason the Rabbis who signed the letter are wrong is that it is a racist, ignorant, and hurtful. We do not live in a shtetl anymore. The world has moved on to where different cultures live side by side everywhere. Why aren't the relgious adapting to that?

I've just heard the rabbi of a synagogue in London say on the radio that she is afraid that what the Israeli rabbis are doing will make life difficult for her and Diaspora Jews. She dismissed the argument based on the Torah that the land of Israel is for Jews. She said that she is a Zionist and yet she disapproves of what the Israeli Rabbis want in this matter. She did not use the argument that making Israel more exclusively Jewish will increase Iran's determination to destroy what it calls "a Jewish entity". Instead, it was a purely selfish appeal to orthodox Jews in Israel not to make life difficult for Jews in the Diaspora, and said without any acknowledgement of Israel's current difficulties.

http://wp.me/pDB7k-tM#isdud-vs-ashdod ... B) NO mention of the racism the letter might incite against Arabs C) We are not a race. Anyone can become a Jew by conversion.

So Rabbi's opposition to the letter is solely based on the possibly negative impact on Jews and not because it is inhumane to discriminate against others

Pinto's fear should only become true. Israel is waiting for all the Jews to move there.

Really? REALLY?

is a fake

The man has a $8 Million home in NY and $4 Million in Ashdod. He wants to make his money keep wearing his $10000 custom suits and let his 11 year old boy wear a rolex while his wife wears short shirts and shops. Give me a break Pinto - Do you see miracles for anyone besides the billionaires you scam ?

He's right...but I live in NY and have never heard of him. "Influential" is like calling the Lubavitcher Rebbe the messiah.

This is the usual paranoid reflex that contains no reality, and also conveniently deflects from the fact that this is racism, pure and simple. Nobody in New York, or anywhere else, is in danger, my dear rabbi. We have understood for many years the racist character of Israel and have grown used to it. Nobody will attack you, nobody will even blink. We are used to it. However, you may be a danger to yourself.

The Rabbis' letter is just one of many indicators of the tone of Israeli leadership and society. Any government that attaches itself to a single religion is inclined to abuse of the individual, even if that individual is a member of that very same religion. A religious based nationalism inevitably aborts historic values of that religion for the sake of preserving and enhancing the state. That has been happening in Israel. The victums have been Arabs, Christians, secular Jews and Jews that view their religion as a more personal relationship to God.

he is waste of time.rabbis should talk less and do more.most of you opening your mouth without thinking. i disagree with the Fatva of our ayatolahs and at the same time , see no danger because no one care what they say

it is not only a stupidity, but as importantly immoral - Sadly, many of us who love Israel are in a state of disbelief and even confusion, with what is going on.

"great racism against Jews in America today." - Rabbi Pinto. That is a bit of overstatement. That is a bit of overstatement. Racial bigotry and hatred towards Jews is but a shadow of what was the case 50 years ago. Then it was much diminished from what it had been during the height of the emigration of Ashkenazim from Eastern Europe about 90 years ago.

Of course he made no mention of the letter's moral aspects, he has no issue with them.

Rabbi Pinto, you are nice guy, keepo talking to your lost congregation, the ARABS are our ennemies if you did not watch the news for the past 50 years?? Jews should not rent to Arabs and by the way france and England (if not too late should kick them out). Sunny

With great respect Rabbi, what you say doesn't make sense. Its like saying if I attack you, then your followers can attack my brother, even tho he had nothing to do with my attack on you. What do Jews living in New York have to do with what a Rabbi in Israel writes? I have never seen that Arabs can't live in New York tho Jews are barred from even visiting most Arab countries, let alone living there.