Israel’s Sephardi chief rabbi caused an uproar by calling Reform Jews “more dangerous to the Jewish people than the Holocaust.” Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron said he never meant to compare Reform Jews to the Nazis, but wanted to make the point that Reform Jews had not learned from the Holocaust and were encouraging assimilation.
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