The Chief Rabbinical Council, in an unprecedented protest to the press, today accused Rabbi Jacob M. Toledano, Minister of Religions, of a “deliberate design” aimed at undermining the authority of the rabbinical body.
The Rabbinical Council said it was “rejecting” Rabbi Toledano’s “encroachments” on its “prerogative” to appoint rabbis to urban and rural centers. Rabbi Toledano, whose appointment was fought by the Chief Rabbinate, had declared that such appointments were not a monopoly of the Chief Rabbinate. The Rabbinical Council charged that the alleged encroachment “sows confusion among the religious population.”
Rabbi Toledano, meanwhile, pressed his effort for a change in election procedures in members of the Rabbinical Council, which includes the selection of Chief Rabbis. Contending that the election procedures were “unrepresentative and undemocratic,” he said he was framing regulations to change the procedures.
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