Israel’s religion minister: Reform remarks taken out of context David Azoulay, a day after saying that Reform Jews cannot be considered Jewish, said, “Of course, all Jews, even though they sin, are Jews.”
Jewish groups rip Israeli religious minister’s anti-Reform remarks Reform leader Rabbi Rick Jacobs called the views expressed by David Azoulay “ignorant and myopic.”
Israel’s religious services minister: ‘Reform Jews cannot be considered Jews’ David Azoulay, of the Sephardic Orthodox Shas party, last month called Reform Jews “a disaster for the people of Israel.”