Israel’s Chief Rabbis: abortions delay the arrival of the Messiah

29 December, 2009

JERUSALEM - The two Chief Rabbis of Israel have spoken out against abortions in Israel, stressing in a letter that "they are delaying the messianic redemption," said Tuesday the newspaper online Y-Net.

In this letter to all Jewish communities in Israel, the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger and his co-disciple Sephardic Shlomo Amar denounce "this epidemic, which annually costs the lives of tens of thousands of Jews."

Some 50,000 abortions are recorded annually in Israel, with 20,000 made in illegal conditions, emphasize the two spiritual leaders. the rest