Speaking up against R' Eliyahu

See the following article (http://www.forward.com/articles/obscene-orthodox-hatred-demands-a-clear-denunciati/). I will be sending the following to the Forward. Any and all Orthodox rabbis are welcome to sign (please indicate your plan to do so by posting a comment or sending me an email at rabbijosh@northwestern.edu). I will not list institutional afflilation unless explicitly given permission to do so.


To the Editor:

In response to Rabbi David Ellenson's challenge to the Orthodox rabbinate, we, the undersigned Orthodox rabbis, unequivocally condemn the comments of Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu casting blame for the Holocaust at the feet of Reform Jews in Germany. We respect Rabbi Eliyahu as a great Torah sage, his words in this matter were not only hurtful and repugnant, they were a chillul Hashem, a desecration of God's name. They have no place in Orthodoxy or in Torah Judaism.

Sincerely,

Rabbi Joshua Feigelson, Fiedler Hillel at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL