Elst's reply was nothing, who is only questioning the wisdom of denying any role to the non-Indian Hindus and suggesting why the Hindu-Jewish collaboration may be important, without defending any specifics of the summitry in question.
Howveer consider the following rather disgustful responses from the Hindu scholar superstars from krau~nchadvIpa:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:23 PM, N.S.Rajaram <nsrajaram@> wrote:
Ignore these new exclusivists. Radha Rajan is always looking for a
reason to vent her spleen. Let us not forget that it was intrepid Narayan
Kataria and his group who humbled Sonia Gandhi and her tribe in court cases
in the US. Let these braggarts who pretend to be defending Hindu
civilizations do the same to her in India.
NS Rajaram
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->From: Rajiv Malhotra
it is an unforunate fact that hindu activism has also attracted many
disturbed and cognitively dysfunctional persons. It has become an
outlet for many frustrated individuals who did not/could not succeed
in any professional pursuit and/or in personal life; hence "hindu
activism" serves as a banner to give them status as somebody. This
nuisance must not distract us.
regards,
rajiv<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Sandhya Jain's response:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Dear friends
Without addressing any substantive issue raised regarding the objectives of Inter-Faith Dialogue, repulsive language is being used to malign "Hindu activism" as the realm of "disturbed and cognitively dysfunctional persons" (please see message at the tail end of this email).
As I do not understand the concepts invoked, I am placing some information regarding the Rabbi Yona Metzger - kingpin of the Hindu-Jewish Summitry - for the kind information of all, in the humble expectation that this may help clarify the meaning of "disturbed and cognitively dysfunctional persons."
I await your kind illumination on this score.
Warm regards
Sandhya Jain
Item 1:
In 2005, Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi suspends himself from Rabbinical Court
By Yuval Yoaz and Jonathan Lis, Haaretz Correspondents
Israel's Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yonah Metzger on Tuesday advised the High Court of Justice that he suspends himself from his positions as religious court magistrate at the Rabbinical High Court and as member of the committee for appointing religious magistrates. The suspension will remain in place until Attorney General Menachem Mazuz decides whether to indict Mezger over suspicions that the rabbi accepted bribes from a Jerusalem hotel. Police announced last month it has sufficient evidence to try Metzger for fraud and breach of trust.
Shortly after the police made the announcement, the Omets movement for volunteering petitioned the High Court asking to suspend Meztger from the two senior positions until the end of legal proceedings. Omets also asked the court to issue an injunction to ban the convening of the committee until the court rules in the petition.
Justice Minister Tzipi Livni (one of the contenders for the prime ministership of Israel: RM) said that she will not convene the committee until the High Court rules on the petition. Metzger is suspected of having accepted perks equivalent of NIS tens of thousands from the David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem, where he has been staying with his family for the high holidays in recent years.
The affair broke out after TV Channel 2 released a story on suspicions that the Chief Rabbi and his family stayed during the last Passover in two rooms at the hotel without paying for their accommodation and stay at the hotel. It also emerged that the rabbi used to stay in the hotel during the high holidays in recent years, while the State funded his rent for an official residence in Jerusalem, not far away from the hotel.
The chief rabbi was first interrogated in February this year by Brigadier General Miri Golan commander of the Police National Fraud Unit for 11 hours at his official chamber in Jerusalem. He was questioned again in May, this time at the fraud unit headquarters in Bat Yam. Police sources said that Metzger collaborated with his interrogators and answered all the questions he was asked. The investigation opened after AG Mazuz approved for the first time in the country's history to interrogate a chief rabbi on allegations against him.
Item 2:
Chief Rabbi accused of sexually harassing 4 males
By Baruch Kra ( baruchk@haaretz.co.il ) Haaretz - April 25, 2003
m/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?ithttp://www.haaretzdaily.coemNo=28716sub5&contrassID=1&ContrassID=7&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
According to a report published in the Ma'ariv daily on Friday, recently elected chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger allegedly sexually harassed four men of various ages and from various sectors of society.
The men said that Metzger touched their bodies and fondled them. The report goes on to say that two of the men successfully passed a polygraph test, at the request of the paper. Metzger denied the allegations against him and said that that they were an attempt to sully his name.
Metzger has been tarred with scandal for years. In 1998, his rabbinical credentials were returned to him after he promised to drop out of the race for Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Tel Aviv. Charges that he repeatedly forged his driver's signature as a witness on ketubot (religious marriage contracts) in order to tie as many nuptial knots as possible per evening and demanded large sums of money from couples' families at the wedding ceremonies he conducted were never formally investigated. However, according to a close associate of supreme haredi authority Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliashiv, Metzger had the one qualification that "would bring honor to the chief rabbinate: he committed himself to consulting a greater authority." That is, with Eliashiv himself
Item 3:
Hindu Jewish Summit, Delhi, Feb 5-6, 2007
An historic event took place in New Delhi (6-7 Feb-2007), when Hindu and Jewish religious leaders met for the first time for a two day dialogue on a range of subjects. Under the aegis of the World Council of Religious leaders and the Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha, the World Council of Religious Leaders and Aim for Seva, took the intiative to conduct a Hindu-Jewish leadership summit at Delhi on February 5 and 6, 2007.
Several top religious leaders of Judaism and Hindu Dharma participated in the dialogue. Chief Rabbi of Israel, H.H. Yona Metzger and Pujya Swami Dayananda Saraswati, convener of the Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha, several Jewish community leaders in India, and the Ambassador of Israel in India with his senior staff were present. ..
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Howveer consider the following rather disgustful responses from the Hindu scholar superstars from krau~nchadvIpa:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:23 PM, N.S.Rajaram <nsrajaram@> wrote:
Ignore these new exclusivists. Radha Rajan is always looking for a
reason to vent her spleen. Let us not forget that it was intrepid Narayan
Kataria and his group who humbled Sonia Gandhi and her tribe in court cases
in the US. Let these braggarts who pretend to be defending Hindu
civilizations do the same to her in India.
NS Rajaram
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->From: Rajiv Malhotra
it is an unforunate fact that hindu activism has also attracted many
disturbed and cognitively dysfunctional persons. It has become an
outlet for many frustrated individuals who did not/could not succeed
in any professional pursuit and/or in personal life; hence "hindu
activism" serves as a banner to give them status as somebody. This
nuisance must not distract us.
regards,
rajiv<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Sandhya Jain's response:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Dear friends
Without addressing any substantive issue raised regarding the objectives of Inter-Faith Dialogue, repulsive language is being used to malign "Hindu activism" as the realm of "disturbed and cognitively dysfunctional persons" (please see message at the tail end of this email).
As I do not understand the concepts invoked, I am placing some information regarding the Rabbi Yona Metzger - kingpin of the Hindu-Jewish Summitry - for the kind information of all, in the humble expectation that this may help clarify the meaning of "disturbed and cognitively dysfunctional persons."
I await your kind illumination on this score.
Warm regards
Sandhya Jain
Item 1:
In 2005, Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi suspends himself from Rabbinical Court
By Yuval Yoaz and Jonathan Lis, Haaretz Correspondents
Israel's Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yonah Metzger on Tuesday advised the High Court of Justice that he suspends himself from his positions as religious court magistrate at the Rabbinical High Court and as member of the committee for appointing religious magistrates. The suspension will remain in place until Attorney General Menachem Mazuz decides whether to indict Mezger over suspicions that the rabbi accepted bribes from a Jerusalem hotel. Police announced last month it has sufficient evidence to try Metzger for fraud and breach of trust.
Shortly after the police made the announcement, the Omets movement for volunteering petitioned the High Court asking to suspend Meztger from the two senior positions until the end of legal proceedings. Omets also asked the court to issue an injunction to ban the convening of the committee until the court rules in the petition.
Justice Minister Tzipi Livni (one of the contenders for the prime ministership of Israel: RM) said that she will not convene the committee until the High Court rules on the petition. Metzger is suspected of having accepted perks equivalent of NIS tens of thousands from the David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem, where he has been staying with his family for the high holidays in recent years.
The affair broke out after TV Channel 2 released a story on suspicions that the Chief Rabbi and his family stayed during the last Passover in two rooms at the hotel without paying for their accommodation and stay at the hotel. It also emerged that the rabbi used to stay in the hotel during the high holidays in recent years, while the State funded his rent for an official residence in Jerusalem, not far away from the hotel.
The chief rabbi was first interrogated in February this year by Brigadier General Miri Golan commander of the Police National Fraud Unit for 11 hours at his official chamber in Jerusalem. He was questioned again in May, this time at the fraud unit headquarters in Bat Yam. Police sources said that Metzger collaborated with his interrogators and answered all the questions he was asked. The investigation opened after AG Mazuz approved for the first time in the country's history to interrogate a chief rabbi on allegations against him.
Item 2:
Chief Rabbi accused of sexually harassing 4 males
By Baruch Kra ( baruchk@haaretz.co.il ) Haaretz - April 25, 2003
m/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?ithttp://www.haaretzdaily.coemNo=28716sub5&contrassID=1&ContrassID=7&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
According to a report published in the Ma'ariv daily on Friday, recently elected chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger allegedly sexually harassed four men of various ages and from various sectors of society.
The men said that Metzger touched their bodies and fondled them. The report goes on to say that two of the men successfully passed a polygraph test, at the request of the paper. Metzger denied the allegations against him and said that that they were an attempt to sully his name.
Metzger has been tarred with scandal for years. In 1998, his rabbinical credentials were returned to him after he promised to drop out of the race for Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Tel Aviv. Charges that he repeatedly forged his driver's signature as a witness on ketubot (religious marriage contracts) in order to tie as many nuptial knots as possible per evening and demanded large sums of money from couples' families at the wedding ceremonies he conducted were never formally investigated. However, according to a close associate of supreme haredi authority Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliashiv, Metzger had the one qualification that "would bring honor to the chief rabbinate: he committed himself to consulting a greater authority." That is, with Eliashiv himself
Item 3:
Hindu Jewish Summit, Delhi, Feb 5-6, 2007
An historic event took place in New Delhi (6-7 Feb-2007), when Hindu and Jewish religious leaders met for the first time for a two day dialogue on a range of subjects. Under the aegis of the World Council of Religious leaders and the Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha, the World Council of Religious Leaders and Aim for Seva, took the intiative to conduct a Hindu-Jewish leadership summit at Delhi on February 5 and 6, 2007.
Several top religious leaders of Judaism and Hindu Dharma participated in the dialogue. Chief Rabbi of Israel, H.H. Yona Metzger and Pujya Swami Dayananda Saraswati, convener of the Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha, several Jewish community leaders in India, and the Ambassador of Israel in India with his senior staff were present. ..
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