Leading rabbi denounces colleagues' edict against renting homes to non-Jews

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Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein broke his silence yesterday on the ruling issued by 39 municipal rabbis against renting homes to non-Jews, calling it "inappropriate public conduct."

"The attorney general thinks the statements attributed to the rabbis are very problematic in several aspects and apparently - at least as far as public officials are concerned - are inappropriate public conduct," an aide to Weinstein, attorney Noa Mishor, said in a statement

Meanwhile, the rabbis' letter received a blow yesterday from the Haredi community, with a denunciation by Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Elyashiv, head of the Lithuanian ultra-Orthodox establishment.

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