Tag: punishing jews who sell land to arabs

• September 13, 2009

  ‘Jews who sell to Arabs are enemies’

  ‘Jews who sell to Arabs are enemies’
  By Matthew Wagner

  A Jew who sells land to an Arab in Israel should not be allowed to lead prayers in synagogue, should not be given the right to make a blessing during the Torah reading, should not be counted among the quorum needed for public prayers and is considered an abettor to the enemies of Israel, according to a halachic decision issued on Monday night by a group of rabbis calling themselves “The New Sanhedrin.”

  What astonishes are the last lines of this piece:

  Eliyahu said that in his own city of Safed, a Jew who sold to an Arab was boycotted by the community. “He owned a grocery store and people boycotted it.”

  Halacha forbids the sale of land in Israel owned by Jews to non-Jews. However, there is nothing in Jewish law that prevents someone who does so from

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