Jews split by a messianic message
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1572793,00.html
The right-wing views of a new breed of rabbis have angered many
worshippers in Europe, finds Jason Burke in Venice
Sunday September 18, 2005
The Observer
Rabbi Ramy Banin, a big man with a long grey beard, is sitting in his
office switching easily between English, Italian, Hebrew and Yiddish as
he chats with visitors who walk through its open door. Outside, the
late-summer sun slants across the small square of Venice's Jewish
Ghetto, warming the red and yellow walls of the tall buildings and the
500-year-old synagogue, past the memorial to the Jews deported in the
Second World War and past shops selling menorah, stars of David and
other Hebraica.
A Venezuelan stops by the rabbi's office to introduce his Polish wife -
'a good Jewish girl, of course,' he says. An American woman wanders in
and leaves with a handful of pamphlets. Outside, a group of
schoolchildren sing a few lines of a religious song.
Jason Burke
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