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Two rabbis for two Jewish communities: Israel's new chief rabbis, Sephardi Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef (R) and Ashkenazi Rabbi David Lau.

There almost certainly are enough “secular” Knesset Members who are too deeply rooted in Jewish tradition to support a merger that is more likely to tear apart the People of Israel rather than unite it.

Arguments and differences of opinion are what made the Talmud so great.

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Can anyone imagine Jews not arguing about whether the single chief rabbi should be Sephardi or Ashkenazi.

And if they didn’t argue, how could the Jewish people survive?

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Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu is a graduate in journalism and economics from The George Washington University. He has worked as a cub reporter in rural Virginia and as senior copy editor for major Canadian metropolitan dailies. Tzvi wrote for Arutz Sheva for several years before joining the Jewish Press.