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6/28/2025, 9:42:16 PM
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Meanwhile:
>Women’s groups and members of the Israeli parliament have criticised the Israeli military after it emerged that its nominee for the role of chief military rabbi had in the past made remarks – later clarified – that appeared to defend the rape of non-Jewish women by soldiers in wartime.
>In a Q&A section called Ask the Rabbi on the website Kipa in 2012, as part of a discussion of the Torah’s attitude towards rape in wartime, Karim was asked: “Is it allowed in our time for an IDF soldier, for example, to rape girls during a fight, or is such a thing forbidden?”
>Karim answered – in the past tense and referring more generally to sexual relations with non-Jewish women – that “since the success of the whole at war is our goal, the Torah permitted the individual to satisfy the evil urge … for the purpose of the success of the whole.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/12/womens-groups-and-mps-denounce-appointment-of-idfs-chief-rabbi
Meanwhile:
>Women’s groups and members of the Israeli parliament have criticised the Israeli military after it emerged that its nominee for the role of chief military rabbi had in the past made remarks – later clarified – that appeared to defend the rape of non-Jewish women by soldiers in wartime.
>In a Q&A section called Ask the Rabbi on the website Kipa in 2012, as part of a discussion of the Torah’s attitude towards rape in wartime, Karim was asked: “Is it allowed in our time for an IDF soldier, for example, to rape girls during a fight, or is such a thing forbidden?”
>Karim answered – in the past tense and referring more generally to sexual relations with non-Jewish women – that “since the success of the whole at war is our goal, the Torah permitted the individual to satisfy the evil urge … for the purpose of the success of the whole.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/12/womens-groups-and-mps-denounce-appointment-of-idfs-chief-rabbi
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