The wife of Meir Ettinger, who has been placed in administrative detention by the defense minister almost eight months ago without charges or proof, announced that their family refuses to conduct her and her husband’s first-born son’s bris in jail with only 15 people present, as a Be’er Sheva district court judge suggested earlier on Sunday. “We will perform the bris proudly and joyously, God willing, together with Meir,” she announced.
Moriah Ettinger, wife of late Rabbi Meir Kahane’s grandson Meir, said that “unfortunately, the state wants to behave like the Greeks and the Communists who wouldn’t permit a Jewish father to enter his son into the covenant of Abraham.” She added, “This is not a private matter but a struggle over Jewish identity, on the distinction between a lover and an enemy, between Israel and the nations. God willing, the bris will take place on time, together with Meir, and I call on everyone to support our struggle. In any event, we will hold the bris with pride and joy and not in jail as they would have us do.”
Meanwhile, Supreme Court Justice Meni Mazuz set a hearing for Monday at 9 AM for the appeal by attorney Adi Keidar from the Honenu legal aid society of the Be’er Sheva district court’s decision not to let Ettinger out of his administrative detention for his son’s bris.
The Ettinger family invites everyone to be their guests at the bris of the first-born baby boy of Meir and Moriah Ettinger. The bris will take place at 2 PM at the K’hal Hasidim synagogue in the Shaarei Chesed neighborhood in Jerusalem. After the bris there will be a farbrengen with Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg.