Oakland mayoral candidate threatens Jewish community in mass emails

The Oaklandside ^ | September 6, 2022 | Darwin BondGraham and Natalie Orenstein

[Dr. Sivana]

A fringe candidate, angry at being excluded from an upcoming forum at a Jewish temple, emailed antisemitic messages to local reporters and public figures.

Probably a synagogue, NOT a temple.

[jjotto]

Odd, I think, that we are seeing Asian-Americans like this guy Liu and Yuh-Line Niou in NYC drumbeating for Jew-hate. Is this a fluke or same-old-same-old?

[jjotto]

Well, it’s name is TEMPLE Sinai, where I’m confident members revere Karl Marx far more than Moshe Rabbeinu and Sinai.

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No, ya can’t make this stuff up!

[old school]

After all, you have to bear in mind that this is “Oaktown!”

[Blurb2350]

Of course this will endear him to a small segment of Oakland’s population.

[buwaya]

Its new. This is one outcome of the college-driven “intersectionality” thing. There is deep antisemitism in “woke” university student groups, going back to pro-Palestinian activists. San Francisco State was a hotbed for this for a long time. After a while even Asians got infected because of a desire to fit in with the prevailing university culture.

[HKMk23]

Wonder what Liu’s Gab “handle” is... he should feel RIGHT at home over there.

[Parker123]

And they will still come out and vote for him

[alexander_busek]

Probably a synagogue, NOT a temple.

The difference being?

Please feel free to enlighten us 95% of all FReepers who are Episcopalian, Roman Catholic, Baptist, or what-not, and whose understanding of Judaism is based primarily on their limited familiarity with 1960s Borscht Belt comics.

Regards,

[zeestephen]

Re: "Probably a synagogue, NOT a temple."

When I was growing up in the 1950s, I lived in a neighborhood that was about one third Jewish.

I clearly recall that many of my class mates would say they were going to or had been to "Temple."

Perhaps the word has fallen out of fashion, or it is just used by specific Jewish groups?

[jjotto]

‘Temple’ in America, with almost no exceptions, refers to Reform Movement places of their version of worship.

‘Temple’ is used to signify in English that the Jew in question does not believe in the Third Temple rebuilt in Jerusalem, or in a human Messiah. The Hebrew term for a gathering place for prayers is a Beit HaKnesset (‘synagogue’ in Greek), literally ‘House of Assembly’.

[zeestephen]

Curiously, not one mention of political parties in this article, although they do gratuitously mention..."fringe candidates like Donald Trump who come to power while peddling racist myths."

I spent 20 minutes on Google and cannot find even one reference of Conservative or GOP support for Peter Liu in Oakland, CA.

[zeestephen]

Thanks, jotto.

What is the linguistic relationship between Knesset (Parliament) and HaKnesset (Synagogue)?

[SJackson]

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[Dr. Sivana]

Please feel free to enlighten us 95% of all FReepers who are Episcopalian, Roman Catholic, Baptist, or what-not, and whose understanding of Judaism is based primarily on their limited familiarity with 1960s Borscht Belt comics.

I am Roman Catholic myself, so my understanding is similar to yours, buttressed somewhat by going to prep school and college with lightly practicing Jewish friends.

Since I have known no Jews to use the term going to Temple (they MIGHT go on Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur or Passover), but always "synagogue" or "shul", I double-checked and Wikipedia etc. confirmed that for most Jews, temple is used for THE Temple in Jerusalem.

[Dr. Sivana]

I clearly recall that many of my class mates would say they were going to or had been to "Temple."

Of course, the old saying that if you have three Jews in a room, you will have four different opinions might hold here.

I went to a Connecticut prep school that was about 20% Jewish, and about 10% or so at U of Chicago, but they were lightly observant.

From Wikipedia on "Temple":
Since the 18th Century, Jews in Western and Central Europe began to apply the name "temple", borrowed from the French where it was used to denote all non-Catholic prayer houses, to synagogues. The term became strongly associated with Reform institutions, in some of which both congregants and outsiders associated it with the elimination of the prayers for the restoration of the Jerusalem Temple, though this was not the original meaning—traditional synagogues named themselves "temple" over a century before the advent of Reform, and many continued to do so after.[15] In American parlance, "temple" is often synonymous with "synagogue", but especially non-Orthodox ones.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

This is yet another reason why Jews who don’t support the Second Amendment are idiots.

[Eleutheria5]

Maybe this is why he gets only 1% of the vote. He’s an a-hole.

[Eleutheria5]

Asians used to be pretty OK. Shanghai refugees were ghetto-ized, but not deported to Auschwitz. Dr. Abraham Kotzuchi can take some of the credit, if not most or all, of influencing the Japanese imperial government. Mumbai used to be a multi-faith bastion of harmony, until 2009. China, I’m not sure about. Too big a country, too few Jews.