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Israeli A-G looks into rental ruling

Israel\'s attorney general is checking whether 39 municipal rabbis who ruled that Jews should not rent to non-Jews broke the law. \"The attorney general thinks the statements attributed to the rabbis are very problematic in several aspects and apparently - at least as far as public officials are concerned - are inappropriate public conduct,\" Ha\'aretz on Friday quoted Yehuda Weinstein\'s office as saying.\n
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December 10, 2010

Israel’s attorney general is checking whether 39 municipal rabbis who ruled that Jews should not rent to non-Jews broke the law.

“The attorney general thinks the statements attributed to the rabbis are very problematic in several aspects and apparently – at least as far as public officials are concerned – are inappropriate public conduct,” Ha’aretz on Friday quoted Yehuda Weinstein’s office as saying.

Weinstein’s office was investigating whether any law had been broken, responding to a request from Ilan Gilon, a Knesset member with the Meretz Party.

Separately, Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Elyashiv, the head of the Lithuanian sector of the fervently Orthodox community also condemned the ruling. “I’ve said for some time that there are rabbis who must have their pens taken away from them,” Haaretz quoted Elyashiv as saying.

A host of American Jewish organizations, along with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,  also denounced the ruling, which was issued this week.

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