The Conservative movement chastised a leading Israeli rabbi for saying Hurricane Katrina was divine punishment for Israel’s Gaza Strip withdrawal. Rabbi Jerome Epstein, executive vice president and CEO of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, wrote to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual head of the Shas Party and a former Israeli chief rabbi, that he was astounded by his commentary.
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