Rabbi Sergio Bergman, a lawmaker in Argentina’s National Parliament, will miss the opening of the 2014 legislative session and the State of the Union Speech because it occurs on Shabbat.
Rabbi Sergio Bergman was sworn in to Argentina’s National Parliament on a Tanach.
When he takes the oath of office in December as a new member of Argentina’s lower house of parliament, Rabbi Sergio Bergman will eschew the Christian Bible used by other legislators in favor of the Five Books of Moses.
In the metropolitan area where Adolf Eichmann once hid, a rabbi is now a member of parliament.