Avi Weiss and The End Of The Chief Rabbinate
I never met Avi Weiss. I heard of him, beginning many years ago, as a fighter for Soviet Jewry, against the desecration of Auschwitz, and various other important causes. Known as a person brimming over with a love of Jews and a passion for fighting against abuse of their rights, he was a beloved figure from afar. Over the past several years, however, I have come to see a different side of Avi Weiss, one that in my opinion has caused tremendous damage to Orthodox Judaism both here in the United States, and now in the State of Israel. The damage was caused because Avi Weiss has decided to begin a new form of Judaism, called “Open Orthodoxy”, and to promote it with all the public relations skills that he honed as a rabble-rousing fighter for all of those good causes, to the detriment of our Holy Mesorah and of Klal Yisroel. I am not going to go into the history and the damage that has been done by Open Orthodoxy in this article, as I wrote about that topic i...