Posted on 04/30/2010 5:19:46 PM PDT by NoLibZone
A rabbi and two Jewish officials were arrested in Chicago for their part in immigration reform protests.
Rabbi Joshua Salter of Beth Shalom B'nai Zaken Congregation on Chicago's South Side was among 24 protesters arrested Tuesday morning outside of a federal detention center, along with Jane Ramsey, executive director of the Chicago-based Jewish Council of Urban Affairs, and Tom Walsh, the organization's director of advocacy.
The activists were cited for disorderly conduct after sitting on a street attempting to block a van carrying detainees from reaching the detention center. They were released later in the day.
The protest against a stringent new Arizona immigration law followed a rally and all-night vigil held Monday. At the prayer vigil, Rabbi Bruce Elder, a Jewish Council board member, said that “I'm not here to say 'shame on Arizona.' I'm here to say 'shame on America' for allowing Arizona to happen.”
Activists of all faiths are gearing up for more civil disobedience at a May 1 immigrant rights rallies, The Associated Press reported. Activists hope the tactic will press President Obama to take serious action on immigration reform.
The Jewish Council is a co-convener of “We Were Strangers, Too: The Jewish Campaign for Immigration Reform” with Jewish Community Action and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society.
US Jews voted for Obama.
Ok...we need the “OH Jees..not this shit again” guy picture.
There really are no words.
Lock them up and throw away the key
Deport these anti-American malcontents along with the illegals. They deserve each other.
I wonder if this Rabbi and Jewish Officials showed up Sunday at the rally in New York to protest Obama’s mistreatment of Israel?
US Jews voted for Obama.
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78 friggin’ percent.
You don’t have to be Jewish to join in on the bash Arizona/support unlimited immigration program.
Here is the latest Evangelical Lutheran Church in America statement (enacted before the Arizona law):
http://www2.elca.org/advocacy/immad0306-5.pdf
And we know all about the Roman Catholics who are bashing Arizona left and right!!!!
They’ll all be at all those bogus “May Day” rallies tomorrow.
This Orthodox Christian is planning to show up for Vespers tomorrow (late afternoon) instead. And I’ll be praying for Arizona!
Michele Obama's cousin is a member. Does that tell you something?
http://www.jewishagency.org/JewishAgency/English/About/Press+Room/Press+Releases/2009/nov04.htm
“You don’t have to be Jewish to join in on the bash Arizona/support unlimited immigration program.”
....absolutely!!...I know the Presbyterian Church(USA)clergy will be busting their asses to get down there and more importantly, to get arrested...an arrest is practically a resume’ necessity...there’s a lot of pent up demand in the youger clergy...they were too young for the last big moral exhibitionist extravaganza...the rush to central America to support the Commies in the 1980s...so they need to make their bones with the illegal aliens demonstrations this weekend.
THANK YOU!!!
WE NEEDED THAT!
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