NRP head Rabbi Yitzchak Levy called upon the religious parties in the government to set an ultimatum: Either a law is passed that will \"right the wrong\" and recognize only Halakhically-converted persons as true converts, or else \"go to new elections in the hope that the national honor will be restored.\" Rabbi Levy said that the Supreme Court had sent an \"explosive warhead at the heart of the Jewish People… The justices have long detached themselves from the people, and today they totally cut themselves off from Halakhah [Jewish Law] and cut the thread of Jewish identity.\"
Reactions in Shas were just as harsh. \"The Supreme Court has become the most radical chapter of Meretz and the Reform movement,\" a party statement said. \"The Court is undermining the Jewish character of the State of Israel… and is helping the fatal process of Jewish assimilation. Many sectors of the Israeli public simply have no trust in this Court.\"
Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau said that the ruling drives a wedge in the public, and will be a source of \"weeping for generations.\" Rabbi Lau said that the original leaders of the State, \"headed by David Ben-Gurion, and even the British Mandate, recognized the Chief Rabbinate\'s authority to determine how people may join the Jewish Nation.\"
Reactions in Shas were just as harsh. \"The Supreme Court has become the most radical chapter of Meretz and the Reform movement,\" a party statement said. \"The Court is undermining the Jewish character of the State of Israel… and is helping the fatal process of Jewish assimilation. Many sectors of the Israeli public simply have no trust in this Court.\"
Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau said that the ruling drives a wedge in the public, and will be a source of \"weeping for generations.\" Rabbi Lau said that the original leaders of the State, \"headed by David Ben-Gurion, and even the British Mandate, recognized the Chief Rabbinate\'s authority to determine how people may join the Jewish Nation.\"