Reform Jews filed a police complaint against a former Israeli chief rabbi who blamed their movement for the Holocaust. Reform leaders in Israel asked police last week to investigate
Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu after Israel’s mainstream media ran remarks he had made to a fervently Orthodox radio station saying the Holocaust was God’s response to the liberalization of European Jewry. A police spokesman said the complaints wanted Eliyahu, a former chief Sephardi rabbi, charged with defamation, and that investigators were still looking into the matter. Eliyahu had no immediate comment.
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