Why Do “Jewish Organizations” Promote Hate Between Jew and Christian?

Toward Tradition ^ | 18JAN06 | Rabbi Daniel Lapin

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Why Do “Jewish Organizations” Promote Hate Between Jew and Christian?

© Rabbi Daniel Lapin

During November, the head of the Anti-Defamation League declared Christians to be the enemies of Jews. “Their goal is to implement their Christian worldview, to Christianize America, to save us!" he said. He proceeded to name names: "Major players include Focus on the Family. Alliance Defense Fund, the American Family Association, Family Research Council and more. They and other groups have established new organizations and church-based networks, and built infrastructure throughout the country designed to promote traditional Christian values."

Where do these traditional Christian values come from? Why, from the Bible of course. Remember that book? The one God gave to the Israelites at Mount Sinai a little over 3,000 years ago. Would you tell me please which ‘traditional Christian values” could be opposed by any Jew who took the Torah seriously? In attacking Torah values, the ADL’s leader clearly indicates that his organization is driven by Democratic Party doctrine, not by Jewish values. Jewish values derive from the Bible. But one isn’t supposed to say that.

Have you noticed? In a weird sort of Alice-in-Wonderland reversal of reality, people now utter apologetic disclaimers whenever they quote something Biblical. It wasn’t so long ago that failing to incorporate Biblical metaphors into your conversation labeled you an ignoramus. Now, for the first time in 500 years, people utterly ignorant of the Bible still think of themselves as educated.

Stop the defensiveness already. Whether Jew or Christian, you need to know this book. It is the only book never to be out of print since 1452 when it became the first book ever printed. It is the book in which is enshrined the moral code of western civilization. It is the book which inspired Isaac Newton to probe and reveal secrets of science. It is the book that encouraged Oliver Cromwell to rebel against King Charles 1.

It is the book which stirred Samuel Taylor Coleridge to write, “In the Bible I have found words for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs.” It is the book from which sprang the Founders’ vision for America. It is your legacy. Know it and quote from it.

I told you all that only so I could tell you this: Biblical morality declares peace to be more important even than truth. Or to put it a bit more accurately, peace is one of the elements that defines truth. If you didn’t understand this, you’d have to accept that God lies. In fact, God appears to have lied to none other than His first devotee, our father Abraham. Here is what happened.

In Genesis chapter 18, God’s angel informed one-hundred-year-old Abraham that during the following year, his ninety-year-old wife, Sarah would have a son. The next verse reads: “Now Sarah was listening from behind the door.” This is followed by Sarah laughing to herself at the very notion of an elderly couple having a son. She explicitly says in verse twelve, “…and my husband is far too old.”

God seems to lie in the very next verse, distorting what made Sarah laugh. “And God said to Abraham, ‘why did Sarah laugh at the news saying ‘How could I give birth with me as old as I am? ” God told Abraham that Sarah laughed at her own age. In fact, she didn’t laugh at the thought of her own age as much as she laughed at her husband being too old. That is exactly what she said in verse twelve . Yet God changed the facts when He reported Sarah’s laughter to Abraham.

Ancient Jewish wisdom points out that the Bible is a moral guide not a history book. Thus it teaches humanity that peace, in this case between husband and wife, is more important than recitation of facts. What is more, it explains that an ultimately truthful report would have to take into account how horrified Sarah would have been had she embarrassed her husband. For this reason, God reported Sarah’s laughter as having been the result of contemplating her own age rather than doubting her husband’s virility.

That is how important peace is to Judaism. Peace isn’t the highest value of all; it can’t be pursued, for example, at the price of betrayal, defeat, or dishonor. But gratuitously picking fights and encouraging disharmony is abhorrent. Doing so to one’s friends is even worse. Peace between American Jew and American Christian is not only achievable, it is a beautiful reality. If you think about it, this peace is an amazing historic development. But more importantly, it is a brotherhood of destiny. What on earth motivates those so-called Jewish organizations who jeopardize it?

If America is to prevail against Islamic terror and once again save Western civilization, American Jews and American Christians must link arms. This great struggle which threatens to plunge, not just Europe but the whole world back into darkness and primitivism is ultimately a struggle between the culture of the Koran and the twin civilizations of the Bible. Only if we, who sprang from the Bible, stand firm can we hope to prevail.

If America is to stand with Israel, American Jews and Americans Christian must link arms. The Washington Post reported how Donald E. Wildmon, chairman of the evangelical American Family Association, warned in a Dec. 5th 2005 radio broadcast that Foxman was fighting the very people who are the strongest supporters of Israel. "The more he says that 'you people are destroying this country,' you know, some people are going to begin to get fed up with this and say, 'Well, all right then. If that's the way you feel, then we just won't support Israel anymore.' " I know Don Wildmon and he is a philo-Semitic supporter of Israel. He is not saying that he will stop loving Jews and Israel. He is warning that many people finally tire of being endlessly kicked by those they considered their friends, and eventually change their minds.

If America is to restore its culture, banish vulgarity, and resist those who would remake it in Europe’s image, American Jews and American Christians must link arms.

In the face of these mighty challenges, Mr. Foxman of the ADL, and Rabbi Eric Yoffie of the Reform Jewish movement see fit to try and destroy peace between American Christian and American Jew. In mid-November, Rabbi Yoffie insisted that anyone who opposes homosexuality is like Hitler. That is right, Rabbi Yoffie is saying that adhering to the words of Leviticus makes me a Nazi!

Mr. Foxman denounced by name, organizations like Focus on the Family. Alliance Defense Fund, the American Family Association, and Family Research Council. I have spoken for these fine organizations on numerous occasions. Whenever I have done so, my speeches were Torah-based words of an Orthodox rabbi. These organizations which Mr. Foxman not so subtly suggests are anti-Jewish applauded my remarks. I have broadcast and socialized with Dr. James Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family; he is a Bible-loving supporter of Israel and friend of the Jewish people. Alan Sears, the head of Alliance Defense Fund is a dear friend and is deeply committed to Biblical values. His organization does outstanding work and is supported by many members of Toward Tradition as indeed it ought to be. The American Family Association and Family Research Council both stand for the basic unit of social organization—the family. What Jew committed to Jewish values would not support these excellent organizations that advocate for the life model recommended by the Bible?

Peace is a foundational Jewish value. Those who try to bring about peace and maintain it are acting in accordance with Biblical values. Those who undermine it and attempt to replace it with enmity are acting in accordance with some other set of values. I am not sure what it is but I am sure it isn’t Jewish.

Rabbi Daniel Lapin

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[Zionist Conspirator]

Secular organizations and individuals have absolutely no business claiming to speak for the organized Jewish community when G-d A-mighty has established an official leadership for that community: the Orthodox rabbinate. Unfortunately that leadership has been very quietistic until recently while secularists and heretics of various sorts took their place in representing Judaism to the non-Jewish world. That is beginning to change now, thank G-d, but it is lamentable that it ever came about and has lasted so long. Part of the blame for this situation doubtless stems from the gradual transformation of the Jewish community from a Theocratic nation in exile (with its own civil government and laws) to a mere religious denomination. The time has come for the Rabbinate not only to speak up as it is beginning to do but to crack down on everyone who is Halakhically Jewish and thus under their G-d-ordained authority.

As dismal as this situation has become I think that it is the Black community that risks a backlash more than any other. Each year on MLK Day we are reminded of "the dream" which has shifted from every citizen's right to vote to "gay rights" and the killing of the terminally ill, yet the Black community keeps its eyes closed and completely ignores the ever growing radicalism of its "friends" and associations as it continues to live in the Fifties. Where is the Black equivalent of the rabbinate to speak out on this?

[Albion Wilde]

Here is a Bible search on the word "remnant", which describes what I believe may be God's plan for the Jewish people:


O LORD, God of Israel, you are righteous! We are left this day as a remnant. Here we are before you in our guilt, though because of it not one of us can stand in your presence. Ezra 9:14-16

A remnant will return, a remnant of Jacob will return to the Mighty God. Isaiah 10:20-22

Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand by the sea, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overwhelming and righteous. Isaiah 10:21-23

In that day the LORD Almighty will be a glorious crown, a beautiful wreath for the remnant of his people. Isaiah 28:4-6

Once more a remnant of the house of Judah will take root below and bear fruit above. Isaiah 37:30-32

For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the LORD Almighty will accomplish this. Isaiah 37:31-33

This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Let them glean the remnant of Israel as thoroughly as a vine; pass your hand over the branches again, like one gathering grapes." Jeremiah 6:8-10

I myself will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them and will bring them back to their pasture, where they will be fruitful and increase in number. Jeremiah 23:2-4

Gaza will shave her head in mourning; Ashkelon will be silenced. O remnant on the plain, how long will you cut yourselves? Jeremiah 47:4-6

In those days, at that time," declares the LORD, "search will be made for Israel's guilt, but there will be none, and for the sins of Judah, but none will be found, for I will forgive the remnant I spare." Jeremiah 50:19-21

I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will surely bring together the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in its pasture; the place will throng with people. Micah 2:11-13

The remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which do not wait for man or linger for mankind. Micah 5:6-8

The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which mauls and mangles as it goes, and no one can rescue. Micah 5:7-9

Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: "Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea, only the remnant will be saved." Romans 9:26-28

[conserv13]

Well there is no doubt that largely Jewish organizations have been trying to destroy American Christian traditions for years

huh?? What are you talking about?

[TSchmereL]

Thanks:

If I had known how to post a link to a picture of a rabbit with a pancake on its head, I would have done it.

[Zionist Conspirator]

It looks to me like the Rabbi is misquoting the Bible to promote the liberal world view.

He is doing no such thing. I'm sorry if you can't read the Bible itself and have to rely on translations (which aren't th same as the Bible itself), but the text actually says that Sarah laughed about her husband's age, but G-d changed this in his conversation with Abraham in order to preserve peace between them.

That's what it says in black-and-white. Deal with it.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Alfred Lilienthal is an Israel-bashing, PLO-supporting, self-hating maniac with decades of crusasing against Israel. The article you have referenced is just another attempt to smear Israel by associating it with the ADL.

It seems to me that today's ADL is friendlier to Arabs and moslems than it is to Pat Robertson, so I don't see what purpose this link of yours is supposed to serve.

[dinok]

Its been my experience growing up in Long Island New York that most Jews are Liberals first, Jews second and Americans last.

Also, American Jews used to support Israel. Now most support the Palestinians. Go figure

[Zionist Conspirator]

This is evidence, in my opinion, that Christianity has indeed "superseded" Judaism as the covenant religion. The majority of those Jews who rejected the Messiah do not seem interested in the Torah law that He instituted. Thus, the vast majority of Jews are very liberal - including on basic moral issues like abortion and "assisted suicide." They are in opposition to God's law. This should not come as a surprise, because Jesus - the Messiah - IS God, and rejecting Him is, well, rejecting Him.

Thank you for your honesty, as groundless as your beliefs are. This certainly explains the mentality behind a lot of your posts.

BTW, I left chr*stianity because it's so soft on the Divine authorship and inerrancy of the Torah. The vast majority of the world's chr*stians believe in evolution and that the Torah is derived from pagan mythology. I guess that's to be expected from a religion that follows a false "messiah."

Since the Left's favorite religion is the Fundamentalist Bible Protestantism of American Blacks, what does that tell you about Fundamentalist Bible Protestantism? I guess that proves it's false.

But you'll probably just smirk and say that as a Catholic you agree.

[Zionist Conspirator]

It happens every time. You post something positive and uplifting from Rabbi Lapin, a true leader of Jewry, and the Jew-hating, Israel-hating fruitcakes take advantage of it and come piling out of the woodwork.

I thought these people left FR after 9/11.

[churchillbuff]

the Left's favorite religion is the Fundamentalist Bible Protestantism of American Blacks"""

Interesting observation. Black churches and black church choirs are the only kind of Christian worship that's allowed to be shown, in a favorable light, in the American media.

[Albion Wilde]

Thanks: If I had known how to post a link to a picture of a rabbit with a pancake on its head, I would have done it.

Dolling! Ya velcome!

[dennisw]

Many people are innocents. There's lots of anti Israel crap on the internet and they get sucked in. I'm talking about conservatives who are not anti Jewish

[Iconoclast2]

Are you saying there are not two references to the age of both Sarah and Abraham (my lord) in the verse? How, then, would you translate the Hebrew "balah"?

[dennisw]

Thank you for your honesty, as groundless as your beliefs are. This certainly explains the mentality behind a lot of your posts.

Yes quite revealing about freeper-ctreature known as Churchillbuff

[hosepipe]

[ (This is a Conservative Jew's Perspective; so don't go "Anti-Semite!" on me.) ]

LoL....

[rang1995]

whatever it is, hate, paranoia or just worry..it's very stupid to be doing in this day and age of islamofacists

[SJackson]

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