The Jerusalem Post's Anshel Pfeffer
muses on why Metzger-gate just might save the dying fish that is the Chief Rabbinate:
The religious parties held out for years against demands to cancel the ridiculously outdated duality of Ashkenazi and Sephardi chief rabbis. Now by default, Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar remains the sole chief, and it's hard to imagine anyone rushing to appoint Metzger's replacement.
Soft-spoken Amar can suddenly come out of media-loving Metzger's shadow and assert himself as the sensible and independent-minded rabbi that few today know he is.
Best part- what are Amar's qualifications for being head honcho, you ask?
If anyone can reconnect the rabbinate to Israeli society, it's the rabbi of humble origins who managed to weather the terrific scandal when his wayward son kidnapped the unsuitable suitor his sister met on the Internet. Like most Israelis, he had to overcome a dysfunctional family and his children know how to use a computer much better than he does.
I say, Anshel Pfeffer for Chief Rabbi. I've already got a slogan: "Why the Hell not?"
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