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Rabbi Ravitz Demands Cancellation of Stamp With Cross
by Betzalel Kahn

MK Rabbi Avrohom Ravitz has demanded that Communications Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer remove a series of stamps that show pictures of a religious cross from circulation. "This is the first time that an Israeli government has produced such a thing," Rabbi Ravitz said.

In a letter sent to Ben Eliezer, Rabbi Ravitz writes, "I received a stamp of the Post Office Authority which has a picture of a cross. As you know, Jews have always been appalled by pictures of a cross, both from a religious standpoint and because of the Jewish Nation's harsh associations with it.

"The stamp is doubly harmful since it contains an inscription referring to Israel as the land of "three religions." Israel is not the land of three religions. It is Eretz Yisroel. We respect the minorities who live here as well as members of all religions. But this land is Eretz Yisroel, the land promised by Hashem to the Jewish nation, in prophecy that is known to the Christian world, too. . . . The cross has no place as a message to the Jewish Nation," Rabbi Ravitz stressed, as he asked the Communications Minister to remove the stamp from circulation.

 

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