A number of leading Jewish businessmen have resigned from their involvement with the Jewish Association for Business Ethics following the denial of the organisation to allow non-orthodox rabbis to get fully involved.
Once again, it shows how some parts of the community, are actually dividing it, rather than trying to unite it. Sure, we may have some differences, but at the end of the day, we are still all Jews.
Outside of their respective synagogues, it's important for all sections of the Jewish community to respect each other. By preaching one thing of tolerance to all, but by excluding it to your own fellow Jew, it really is pathetic.
Among those leaving the JABE are Stephen Rubin of leisure and clothing company Pentland and Dixons-founder Lord Kalms.
The Jewish Chronicle reports:
Mr Rubin told the JC that he would quit the organisation — which was founded under the patronage of Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks — after several years in the chair. Lord Kalms and Gerald Rothman announced their resignations following a trustees’ meeting on Monday.
A proposal has been under discussion for several months for a non-Orthodox rabbi to address students of the Leo Baeck College-Centre for Jewish Education — the Progressive rabbinic training institute — under Jabe’s auspices at a neutral venue.
But some Orthodox rabbis are understood to have threatened to stop working with the association if the idea was implemented.
Lord Kalms, a United Synagogue member, pointed out that “the Chief Rabbi stood on a platform of inclusivism. Once again, after many other examples, he has tossed it into the long grass.”
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