Does Minister of Religious Affairs Dovid Azulai get to decide who is Jewish, based on affiliation?
Why are people so upset? So he said something stupid and mean.
If those people were living here, that would be one thing. But they don't (at least not the vast majority, and he was specifically talking about Reform Jews in America), so what do they really care what he said. So he is an idiot.
I would agree, if he said something like those without Jewish mothers are not Jewish. They are not halachically Jewish, though they consider patrilineal descent enough to determine their Jewishness. At least then he would have been right. As it is, he did not say that - he just said they all are not Jews.
So he is an idiot. They do not need to get worked up over something an idiot says, especially if it does not really affect them in any way.
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