Israel’s PM has criticized a petition, signed by dozens of rabbis, to stop Jews from renting apartments to aliens. According to Bibi, Torah teaches us to love the stranger.
Rabbi Kahane called it the arrogance of ignorance. The Torah enjoins Jews to treat gerim justly. And gerim are not strangers at all, but converts. They must observe major commandments and behave publicly like Jews.
The rabbinical ruling is very strong, bordering on ordering excommunication for the people who bring Arabs into our communities. This revival of rabbinical patriotism is highly laudable.
