Open letter to Pruzansky on his resignation from the RCA conversion bet din. To Rabbi Pruzansky: I want to thank you for stepping down. I dont know you personally, so I will take you at your word regarding your personal integrity. But you certainly lack humility! Many years ago, when my sister married and I talked to her future husband about signing a prenuptial agreement, I explained that it wasnt about my not trusting him, per se. Rather, making prenuptial agreements normative behavior provided protection for women from potentially abusive aguna situations in general, and his signing, ESPECIALLY SINCE HE WAS A DECENT AND ETHICAL PERSON, was a powerful step in the direction of making prenuptial agreements normative. The same applies here, but you seem to only consider administrative reforms as aimed at questioning your self-proclaimed integrity. (Which as I said, I have no reason to doubt, as I do not know you personally.) Are you so narrow minded and tactical in your thinking that you cannot envision a wider world outside of yourself, where there are both rabbis worthy of respect and rabbis who abuse the public trust? And are you so blind that you cannot envision valuable contribution that Rabbis of your supposed integrity can make in preventing abuses by embracing administrative reforms? Apparently not. So since you cannot see this, it is indeed better that you step down. For what it is worth, I was in NJ NCSY during the Lanner years. I saw the abuses of the Blau bet din firsthand. And when my adopted son was converted by Freundel, my wife and I were shaken down by Fruendel for two bribes during this whole process. I personally informed the RCA in 2010, and watched while they stood idly by and did nothing. (They literally told me that my concerns were between me and Freundel, and I should take them up with him!) So these reforms should not be aimed just at stopping another Freundel, but at reigning in an indifferent RCA that is only moved by the threat of lawsuits and public scandal. If you are so outraged at the perceived slight to your integrity that you must resign, if you are so self-absorbed that you see this entire thing as being about yourself, then I say good riddance. Tzetzchem lshalom. Seth Weissman Stepping Down | Rabbi Pruzanskys Blog
Posted on: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:37:44 +0000
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