RJC Launches Grassroots Campaign [opposes Union of Reform Judaism undermining US efforts in Iraq]

March 1, 2007, Washington, DC.... The Republican Jewish Coalition today launched a national grassroots action campaign to stand up to efforts on the part of the Union of Reform Judaism (URJ) to undermine US efforts in Iraq. The call to action informed RJC members that the Reform movement's leadership is pushing the Union of Reform Judaism to adopt a "dangerous and wrongheaded resolution opposing US efforts in Iraq."

The RJC called on its members to learn more about the proposed resolution and to express their own opposition to the resolution directly to the URJ president, Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie, and to their local synagogues.

"To immediately begin a phased withdrawal from Iraq, as the URJ resolution demands, will harm American security in the long run. Iraq is an important theater in the ongoing war on terror. If this resolution were carried out, Iraq and the Middle East would become less stable and less democratic."

The Union for Reform Judaism (URJ, formerly the Union of American Hebrew Congregations) is effectively MoveOn.org, the Democratic Underground, the Huffington Post, or the Daily Kos with Jewish holidays. I think their leaders formulate extreme leftist positions at Yom Kippur soirees at which they serve ham and cheese sandwiches along with bacon-wrapped scallops (kosher bacon, of course) while praying to images of Franklin Roosevelt, Ted Kennedy, and Michael Moore.

I have in fact disliked the Union of "American" "Hebrew" Congregations (double oxymoron) ever since Eric Yoffie, apparently in his capacity as the head of a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, made an effective endorsement of Al Gore at the Million Mom March rally in 2000. Specifically:

Although 501(c)(3) organizations are not allowed to attempt to influence elections, UAHC leader Eric Yoffie exhorted his listeners, "we're going to find out who's getting NRA funds, and benefiting from NRA ads, and we're going to vote for the other guy." "The American people, I believe, are ready for a leader who will take on the fanatics and support sensible gun control." Yoffie continued his unique interpretation of Judaism as follows. "Controlling guns is not only a political matter, it is a solemn religious obligation. Our gun-flooded society has turned weapons into idols, and the worship of idols must be recognized for what it is-blasphemy."

Well, if Yoffie had been in charge of the Maccabees (Jews who rebelled against Macedonians who tried to make them convert to the Greek religion) we (Jews and Christians) would be worshipping genuine idols today. We think, in fact, that Battlestar Galactaca assumes that Yoffie got the Maccabees to agree with his ideas of weapon control (e.g. swords must be licensed and registered): hence a human civilization that has starships but still worships the Greek pantheon. But we digress

It is quite justifiable to refer to the above as Eric Yoffie's "Torah," because he is falsely claiming that Judaism has a "solemn religious obligation" to agitate for gun control. He might want to talk to the Jews who had to beg, borrow, and even steal guns with which to fight Arab genocidists in 1947-1948, and Resistance fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto, who were grateful to get their hands on any kind of firearms. So please feel free to COPY (not link) and circulate "Eric Yoffie's Torah."

The National Jewish Democratic Council (aka National Judenrat Democratic Council), of course, has no trouble equating the URJ with Reform Judaism as a whole, as shown by the following (http://njdc.typepad.com/njdcs_blog/2007/03/why_is_the_repu.html)

"Why is the Republican Jewish Coalition Picking a Fight with Reform Jews? Republican leaders have shrunk to a new low -- attacking the Reform movement because of the Union for Reform Judaism’s opposition to the Iraq war." Well, I'm Reform Jewish, and I don't think the RJC is picking a fight with me. Last I heard, in fact, I supplied RJC with information to use against the NJDC. (Specifically, NJDC's whitewash of MoveOn.org's sponsorship of anti-Semitic and other forms of hate speech.) So I don't know which "Reform Jews" NJDC thinks the Republican Jewish Coalition is attacking, but I am certainly not among them.

Perhaps NJDC has joined URJ in trying to convert Reform Judaism into a poligion (political movement disguised as a religion), but we will not stand for that for a moment. We remind our readers that NJDC also played a central role in trying to whitewash anti-Semitic hate speech (plus anti-Catholic, anti-Evangelical, and racist hate speech) from its friends at MoveOn.org. (http://www.israpundit.com/2006/?p=3149 for details).

In addition, NJDC, in its eagerness to attack Evangelical Christians or even damage Jewish-Christian relations, posted on its own blog repackaged and relabeled "Jew as Christian hater" propaganda that could have come straight from Nazi Germany. (http://www.israpundit.com/2006/?p=3172)

In general, the National Judenrat Democratic Council seems to promote anti-Christian bigotry as well (http://www.israpundit.com/2006/?p=3900).

Union for Reform Judaism = MoveOn.org with Jewish holidays.

Union of "American" "Hebrew" Congregations: double oxymoron.

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