America’s most influential ultra-Orthodox rabbis issued a proclamation on November 2 asserting that the so-called Open Orthodox movement is not legitimately Orthodox, and that rabbis ordained in its seminaries are not rabbis.
The proclamation by the Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah of America, the ultra-Orthodox rabbis who guide the Agudath Israel of America, is the latest salvo against Open Orthodoxy, the left-leaning Modern Orthodox institutions associated with Rabbi Avi Weiss.
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