{"id":49970,"date":"2013-07-24T11:18:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T19:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=49970"},"modified":"2015-01-10T18:31:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T02:31:11","slug":"haredim-defeat-modern-orthodox-in-israels-chief-rabbi-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=49970","title":{"rendered":"Haredim Defeat Modern Orthodox In Israel&#8217;s Chief Rabbi Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Marc Shapiro responded to my inquiry: &#8220;The <A HREF=\"http:\/\/failedmessiah.typepad.com\/failed_messiahcom\/2013\/07\/haredim-win-chief-rabbinate456.html\">election<\/a> of Rabbi David Lau is a bad joke. He is only 46 or 47 years old, and is not regarded as a great talmid chacham. So the Ashkenazi chief rabbi is once again just a crown rabbi, not a halakhic authority. If all you want is a chief rabbi who can give a good speech then I am sure Rabbi David Lau is fine, but if you want a chief rabbi who is a gadol be-Yisrael then the whole thing is a joke. There was a really great Torah scholar running for chief rabbi, R. Yaakov Shapiro, but the people who vote for these positions are not interested in electing the greatest Torah scholar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef is on the other hand a truly great scholar and if he carries on the halakhic tradition of his father it will be a positive thing. However, he has shown a tendency to bend to the will of the Ashkenazic haredim.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Marc Shapiro responded to my inquiry: &#8220;The election of Rabbi David Lau is a bad joke. He is only 46 or 47 years old, and is not regarded as a great talmid chacham. So the Ashkenazi chief rabbi is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=49970\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[598,37,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haredi","category-israel","category-marc-b-shapiro"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49970"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61768,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49970\/revisions\/61768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}