Yet rabbis in Israel found a workaround. It's forbidden to lend money at interest, but acceptable for a person to "invest" in a bank. So when you deposit money in an Israeli bank, it's called an "investment," and the interest you get is a "return on investment."
This is why Israeli banks post a public notice inside to clarify that you're not getting or paying interest, it's all a "return on investment." That public notice is rabbinical mandatory.
Of course Jewish community leaders, rabbis, imposed the death penalty on their wrongdoers throughout the past two millennia. Why wouldn't they? Every community imposed the death penalty on certain miscreants. Why would Jews be an exception? Are they the sole people on earth who don't bend the law to their needs?
FWIW, I get all the above info from Israel Shahak's book, Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years.
You can also find it for free on Archive.org.
you can rest assured that other then marriage and burial and a few other little areas, the rabbinic authorities in the very secular state of Israel have virtually no real power.
“FWIW, I get all the above info from Israel Shahak’s book”
lol. I get my information straight from the Talmud itself. I'm on my third cycle of Daf Yomi (you can google it and find the wiki page) and I am still nothing more then a layman.
yes, I’ve seen enough of your posts to know you don't like us kike Jews. thats okay—I don't take it personally.
I just hope you can differentiate between the orthodox Jews like me who do our best to follow G-d’s commandments and the secular heathens who most Americans identify as “them Jews” — unfortunately, we have no shortage of Epsteins, Weinsteins, Howard Sterns, Noam Chomsky's, Andrew Wisemans, Adam Schiffs, Jerry Nadlers, Babs, Diane Fianesteins and the countless other Lear's and Kissingers who have utilized their talents and skills for all the wrong things.
you may have your issues with “the jew lobby” and the commercialization of the holocaust amongst other complaints (have to throw in the obligatory USS Liberty mention), but I do genuinely hope you are on Israels side against the Jihadist enemy. Just remember, those same “palistinians” were the same ones dancing in the streets after 9/11 and you can pretty much say that Yassar Arafat is the undisputed king of modern Islamic terrorism. He made airplane hijacking an art form and was obviously the seed of 9/11. It's the same people and the same ideology. If Israel loses this battle, then you can let me know which size hijab to order for your wife, because the once great USA and all of western civilization is next on their list.