Posted on 09/04/2009 11:07:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The name's Moscowitz. Rabbi Moscowitz.
Unsure the NYPD can protect them from a terrorist attack during the upcoming high holidays, a bunch of rabbis have taken matters into their own hands.
The group, which bills itself as the International Security Coalition of Clergy, was founded by Rabbi Gary Moscowitz. The mission: Protect synagogues during Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the Jewish high holidays, at the end of the month.
Moscowitz, who has a black belt in karate, was an NYPD cop for nearly a decade and is a martial arts instructor, founded the coalition, according to The New York Post.
The rabbi is teaching other Jews both basic and advanced fighting techniques – how to take down a terrorist by the neck, how to duck and cover under a table during a shootout and how to do a really cool somersault move on the ground while pulling out a weapon – so they'll be prepared if terrorists swarm their synagogues during services.
"Jews are not like Christians," Moscowitz told the Post. "If I turn my cheek, I'm coming around to make a kick." While the 52-year-old rabbi admits he doesn't think Muslims as a group are dangerous, he told the Post he and his fellow rabbis were just concerned about the safety of temples, which have been consistently threatened with "rhetoric and extremism."
Most people thought Moscowitz's plan was a joke until May, when the FBI arrested homegrown Muslim terrorists accused of plotting to blow up temples in the Bronx. Since then, tons of people have been seeking his training and he established a 100-hour class for synagogue self-defense, according to the Post.
Why can't the NYPD adequately defend temples? Moscowitz says cops don't know the members of the congregation, so a terrorist could just pose as a congregant and walk in. An NYPD spokesman told the Post Moscowitz had been fired from the force in the early 1990s, but didn't have further information.
As for the rabbi's criticism of the NYPD, Paul Browne told the paper, "Blessed are the right of lip for they shall resist speaking ill of the ill-informed."
“Jews are not like Christians,” Moscowitz told the Post. “If I turn my cheek, I’m coming around to make a kick.”
He needs to learn more about American Christians...not the Socialist Christian limp-wrists.
We turn the other cheek when it comes to witnessing and Christ being insulted.
When it’s a physical assault, we don’t turn the other cheek because we are too busy bobbing and weaving and swinging back.
Martial arts, so-called, are very good exercise and look great on TV; however, bringing empty hands to a gunfight is not a winning strategy.
Jews defending themselves go back a long way. A Jew named Mendoza moved from Spain and became a stylish instructor of boxing in London during the Regency. He invented the Mendoza chop, a move that struck the opponents left across the forearm with your right. Some Jews took lessons from him too. Suddenly wealthy snobs couldn’t go around beating up random jews to show off to their friends...
Is this some sort of joke? Black belts against black guns in the hands of suicidal jihadists??!?1?
Sounds like someone is seriously delusional......
What kind of karate kick is defense against a suicide bomb?
It’s the ethos. Concealed carry. Do you think our present government gives a hoot about
protecting it’s citizens?
“Jews are not like Christians,” Moscowitz told the Post. “If I turn my cheek, I’m coming around to make a kick.”
The good Rabbi should check his history.
Unless they advocate arming themselves, it’s useless because terrorists won’t be using fists.
Classic misinterpretation of Matthew 5:39 by the Rabbi.
Silly Rabbi. Tricks are for kids.
If good men do nothing in response to physical violence... Evil wins. Every time.
The Rabbi in the article needs to check out Aaron Zelman's JPFO. Not everyone can execute a roundhouse kick, but damn near everyone can handle a simple "point-n-click" interface.
ping
The good Kenmcg should do more research on the "good Rabbi"..........
I love you Rambo guys........puff out your chest and "tell it like it should be done....ARGH! " LOL!
How about a little more info on what the Rabbi preaches?:
TEMPLE OF BOOM: Rabbi Gary Moscowitz (far right) leads fellow heat-packing holy men in a self-defense drill at a Queens synagogue.
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