[Winged Hussar]

As a person of Jewish identity, I am highly offended not by Glenn Beck's statement of unpleasant facts but by the actions of individuals (like Eric Yoffie) who, by purveying left-wing politics under color of Judaism made Beck's statement accurate and necessary.

I don't regard what Eric Yoffie calls Judaism as any more Jewish than the Westboro Baptist Church is Christian. Yoffie (and not Glenn Beck) offends and insults me every time he presumes to speak for me on, for example, subjects like gun control.

[Bidimus1]

Good points.

I feel the same way about the church of joseph smith and Christianity, to be honest it (lds) is as insulting to Jewish faith as it is to mine in many ways.

I do believe that people should have the right to worship as they see fit, as long as they do not violate the Constitution or those laws are supported by the Constitution.

[Bidimus1]

Good points.

I feel the same way about the church of joseph smith and Christianity, to be honest it (lds) is as insulting to Jewish faith as it is to mine in many ways.

I do believe that people should have the right to worship as they see fit, as long as they do not violate the Constitution or those laws are supported by the Constitution.

[Tennessee Nana]

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[ml/nj]

I'm also Jewish. I've been to two Bar Mitzvah's at Yoffe's synagogue. Both times his sermon infuriated me. I only remember one now. It was a long time ago. But it was a gun-grabber sermon. He didn't have the courtesy to stick around afterward and talk to the little people, so I wrote to him. I got one of those pro-forma thank-you's a month or two later.

Make no mistake. Yoffe is a real schmuck.

ML/NJ

[Polybius]

We put "Reform Judaism" in quotes because we do not recognize left-wing politics as part of the Jewish religion .... Bill Levinson

As a person of Jewish identity, I am highly offended not by Glenn Beck's statement of unpleasant facts but by the actions of individuals (like Eric Yoffie) who, by purveying left-wing politics under color of Judaism

I think you are missing the point on Beck.

BOTH Eric Yoffie and Glenn Beck equated ALL of Reform Judaism as just a vehicle to purvey left-wing politics.

Try this Catholic thread. Glenn Beck isn't doing too well on it.

[SJackson]

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While I'm no fan of Yoffie's, Becks's melding of Reform Judaism with radical Islam is absurd. At least he apologized.

[justiceseeker93]

Good article by Bill Levinson.

Gun control is far from the only area where Yoffie foolishly conflates leftist politics with Judaism. Promoting the homosexual agenda is another.

Yoffie, and other Reform rabbis who openly engage in similar political activities, take undue advantage of their positions, knowing that in the Jewish tradition, the rabbi is a leader of his flock, and thereby can be an important influence on the way rank and file Jews may think on these issues.

As for the National Jewish Democratic Council, which also takes leftist stances under the color of "Jewishness," they are infamous for their smearing of Republican politicians with charges or innuendos of antisemitism for no logical reason whatsoever. One such instance was their blasting of Mitt Romney for kicking off his presidential campaign at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI, noting that the late Henry Ford was unquestionably an antisemite. (Apparently the NJDC dodged the inconvenient truth that Henry Ford was also a Democrat.) Another was an attack on Sarah Palin at an NJDC sponsored event, at which Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) stated that Palin was likely antisemitic because she carries guns and hunts moose. The NJDC never rebuffed Hastings for his inane comment at their event.

[Uncle Miltie]

My unofficial Chabad Gun Club is not joining these JINOs.

[rmlew]

I’ve never met a rabbi not committed to religious education, and practice. Unfortunately, I have come across some Reform Rabbis who are shameless hypocrites using the pulpit for politics, while using the mantra of of “separation of Church a...nd state” to try to silence conservative Christians in the US, and in one occasion, Orthodox Jews in Israel.
I’ve had Yom Kippurs interrupted by a one rabbi trying to tell us to support Obamacare. Not Kosher.