Rabbi Attacks
Shas Party
Jerusalem (JTA) — Rabbi
Eliezer Schach, the aged .
Ashkenazic sage, has issued
a blistering attack on the
fervently Orthodox Sephar-
dic Shas party for remaining
in the Labor-led government
coalition.
The 95-year-old Rabbi
Schach asserted that Shas
had "removed itself from the
community of the haredim,"
or fervently Orthodox, and
was causing "the ruination
of religion."
Rabbi Schach's diatribe
was circulated to all the
Israeli media and promi-
nently published here last
week.
Rabbi Schach, spiritual
leader of the small Degel
HaTorah party, opposes
Shas' participation in the
current government, citing,
among other factors, the fact
that the avowedly secular
Meretz party is another
member of the coalition.
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the
spiritual leader of Shas, has
called on his followers to
resist responding to Rabbi
Schach's attack.
Rabbi Schach refused this
week to acknowledge that
the recent removal of Meretz
leader Shulamit Aloni as
minister of education — at
Shas' insistence — was an
achievement for the Sephar-
dic party.
Indeed, at a conference of
the Agudat Yisrael party in
Netanya, Rabbi Schach
asserted that the Cabinet
reshuffle had made matters
worse from the haredi
perspective.
Division also exists within
the Ashkenazic camp.
The Agudat Yisrael
gathering, involving haredi
leaders from Israel and
abroad, ended in disap-
pointment when it became
clear that Degel HaTorah
and Agudat Yisrael are not
yet prepared to set aside
their difference and reunite.
The two parties coexist
within the United Torah
Judaism Front as a single
Knesset faction, but they re-
tain their separate identities
— Degel having split off
from Agudah in the 1980s.
Tensions mounted at the
conference when Degel
representatives took affront
when the Agudah news-
paper Hamodia did not refer
to Rabbi Schach as "maran,"
a term used in haredi
parlance to designate the
greatest rabbis.
Agudah's rabbinical
leaders are the Chasidic
rebbes of Gur and Vishnitz.
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