The spiritual leader of the Israel’s fervently Orthodox Shas Party said members of the secular Meretz and Shinui parties cannot be witnesses at Jewish weddings because they are evil, smoke on the Sabbath and eat nonkosher food. In a weekly lesson on Jewish marriage, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef said a union is valid only if witnessed by two observant Jews.
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