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Rabbis condemn N.J. rabbi Steven Pruzansky’s anti-Arab rhetoric

The Orthodox Union said it “cannot countenance a response to terror that resorts to wholesale demonization, advocates for the collective punishment of Israeli Arabs, or calls for the destruction or dismantling of Muslim holy places.”

November 26, 2014 10:57 am

Extreme views on Arabs don’t inhibit shul’s embrace of Rabbi Pruzansky

The rabbi of the largest Orthodox shul in Teaneck, N.J., says Arab stone throwers should be shot and the mosque on the Temple Mount should be moved to Saudi Arabia. His congregation — and mainstream Orthodox institutions — shrug.

November 24, 2014 6:00 pm

N.J. rabbi: Arabs in Israel ‘must be vanquished’

In an incendiary and now-deleted blog post, Rabbi Steven Pruzansky of Teaneck, N.J., called for Israel to collectively punish Palestinians until they realize “they have no future in the land of Israel.” He went so far as to suggest the Dome of the Rock be uprooted.

November 23, 2014 9:25 am