Danny Ayalon, Israeli's envoy in Washington, has not issued any public statements answering last week's letter from the OU to him. It demanded an explanation on discrimination by police against religious Jews whom police tried to prevent from reaching the recent protest in Kfar Maimon.
The OU wrote Mazuz, "We are disturbed by the indifference to the civil liberties of all Israeli citizens that Israeli government officials, jurists and police and security forces appear to be displaying in the course of executing the government's policies. We are stunned by reports of security forces singling out persons displaying outward appearances of religious observance for disparate harsh treatment.
The OU sharply criticized "government threats and coercion, such as the baseless confiscation of bus drivers’ licenses…and the detention in prison or under house arrest of persons merely advocating positions at odds with government policy.
Last week, the OU demanded that Ayalon answer charges that the police and government have discriminated against observant Jews.
Except for the OU and the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), virtually every major Jewish organization has remained silent on recent event police brutality and attempts to stop protests.
Rabbis from the state of Connecticut are the first rabbinical group to issue a joint statement against the expulsion plan
"We have discussed the issue and we are chagrined that more rabbinical councils are not doing the same in this moment of crises facing our brethren, said Rabbi Yehoshua S. Hecht, president of the Rabbinical Council of Connecticut.
The organization issued a statement opposing the "expulsion of ten thousand Jews from their homes, destruction of synagogues, schools, cemeteries, and entire communities." It added that that the government plan "rewards decades of terror, even as suicide bombers continue to infiltrate Jewish communities and rockets and mortars are fired daily at Jewish neighborhoods.
More than 10 rabbis representing synagogues and institutions in Connecticut signed the statement.
The OU wrote Mazuz, "We are disturbed by the indifference to the civil liberties of all Israeli citizens that Israeli government officials, jurists and police and security forces appear to be displaying in the course of executing the government's policies. We are stunned by reports of security forces singling out persons displaying outward appearances of religious observance for disparate harsh treatment.
The OU sharply criticized "government threats and coercion, such as the baseless confiscation of bus drivers’ licenses…and the detention in prison or under house arrest of persons merely advocating positions at odds with government policy.
Last week, the OU demanded that Ayalon answer charges that the police and government have discriminated against observant Jews.
Except for the OU and the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), virtually every major Jewish organization has remained silent on recent event police brutality and attempts to stop protests.
Rabbis from the state of Connecticut are the first rabbinical group to issue a joint statement against the expulsion plan
"We have discussed the issue and we are chagrined that more rabbinical councils are not doing the same in this moment of crises facing our brethren, said Rabbi Yehoshua S. Hecht, president of the Rabbinical Council of Connecticut.
The organization issued a statement opposing the "expulsion of ten thousand Jews from their homes, destruction of synagogues, schools, cemeteries, and entire communities." It added that that the government plan "rewards decades of terror, even as suicide bombers continue to infiltrate Jewish communities and rockets and mortars are fired daily at Jewish neighborhoods.
More than 10 rabbis representing synagogues and institutions in Connecticut signed the statement.