Israel’s National Religious Party was sharply attacked here today for a resolution adopted by a large majority at its national convention in Tel Aviv last week advocating the removal of yeshiva students’ exemption from military service. Rabbi Abraham Gross, president of the Rabbinical Alliance of America, said the NRP’s action further divided the Orthodox Jewish community and calls into question whether the NRP really speaks on behalf of Torah Jewry. He said this “insensitivity to the inner feelings of the yeshiva world” raised the question “of the sincerity of the NRP’s claim to back the Chief Rabbinate of Israel when both Chief Rabbis had urged the resolution’s defeat.”
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