Posted on 08/16/2017 6:00:29 PM PDT by piasa
As white supremacists converged on a Charlottesville park for their violent Unite the Right rally, some of them menaced the citys historic Beth Israel synagogue during Shabbat services, standing across from the building with semi-automatic weapons in their hands. Had they tried to enter, I dont know what I could have done to stop them, but I couldnt take my eyes off them, either, wrote Alan Zimmerman, the president of the Reform congregation, about the three neo-Nazis he stared down as congregants prayed inside.
Zimmerman, in an essay published on ReformJudaism.org, said that neo-Nazis marching past the building shouted hateful slogans like Seig Heil, the Third Reichs Hail Victory shout. He added that the synagogue had retained an armed guard, after the Charlottesville police department failed to provide the synagogue with security on Saturday. The synagogue took other precautionary measures, due to calls on far-right Web sites for the building to be burned. Zimmerman said that he and the rabbis decided to remove the congregations Torah scrolls to a more secure location.... Read more: http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/380116/charlottesville-synagogue-back-door-neo-nazis/
How does my hoping that Zimmerman, presumably a liberal due to his affiliation with reformed Judaism, gain a new perspective on his right to keep and bears arms, show ill will on my part?
And considering the past century alone, is it not baffling that American Jews are extremely leftist?
I didn't doff my cap last time I said "Tel Aviv." Are you going to turn me in to the PC police?
There has been no ill will towards Jews evinced on this thread. Not one iota.
If you'd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Presuming FR is a conservative forum, it's fair to say some conservatives feel Jews can worship free of intimidation. Others feel it didn't occur, it's widely reported, particularly in the foreign press. I can't imagine why liberal Jews don't embrace the conservatives who call them liars.
Doesn’t the Rabbi or any of his congregation have a phone or a camera?
Are there no security cameras on that street?
I recall a similar story in Iowa about a Jewish school being shot up. It turned out to be a single BB hitting a window, very likely fired by some kid who did not intend to hit it.
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com.au/2017/03/fake-bullet-hole-in-synagagoge-in.html
So much of this is in the mind of the person who claims to be intimidated.
Ask Rev. Sharpton what he thinks of Jews
See Freddies Fashion Mart, e.g.
It took me awhile to figure that one out. I was thinking about the other Zimmerman (George), and it didn't compute. I re-read the article and said, 'oh, a different Zimmerman...'
I’m not necessarily saying he’s lying. What makes you so sure these 3 weren’t fake nazis?
Seriously, quit the knee jerk believe everything crap. I know it’s hard, I struggle with it too.
Much of this political drama is fake and being manufactured.
Exactly.....
>>Are there no security cameras on that street?
The smallest of our local synagogues definitely has a full suite of cameras. We got a call to check an odd happening there while I was on a police ride-along.
IIRC, numerous eyewitness reports have said that the only people who showed up armed were some groups of Oathkeepers, who almost assuredly were not standing across the street from a synagogue menacing its congregants. This story sounds fake.
You two need to make your statements at Forward where this article was published and sign your real names.
Or better yet, call Alan Zimmerman at the synagogue and tell him he is a lying Jew.
Or you could just call Mr. Zimmerman and ask him where he lost his cell phone. A cell phone that could have easily documented such a serious charge.
Reformed Jews are as non-religious as it gets.
In a liberal college town. Probably 1% of them voted for Trump.
Every synagogue should have a gun club
It smells like a false flag....Soros paid protestors pretending to be the “right” in order to discredit conservatives, gun owners and, by extension, the president.
One would think in this day and age that synagogues would have a number of security cameras.
Agree. It would not surprise me one bit if the “neo-nazis” turned out to be leftwingers.
No true conservative would condone nazis, neo-nazis, white supremacists, or any other hate group.
The left loves to find these rare instances and individuals and pretend that they represent the conservative movement.
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