Judaism violates scriptural law

MOSCOW - The World Union for Progressive Judaism condemned Russia's Chief Rabbi Berl Lazar for a magazine article in which he said Reform Judaism violates scriptural law and "can't be labeled as a religion."

The union responded to an article by Lazar, who comes from the Orthodox and Lubavitch-dominated Federation of Jewish Communities. Lazar was writing in a federation magazine.

According to the union's translation, Lazar also said "Reform Judaism treats the Torah as an anthology of laws created by man for his own convenience. God has no place. What Reform Judaism is are clubs to meet their interests and it seems odd to me that the directors of these clubs call themselves 'rabbis.'"

World union executive director Rabbi Uri Regev replied: "It is regrettable that (the Lubavitch movement) ... so easily returns to its old, hateful bashing of Reform Judaism."
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