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Jewish American rabbis join gun control call - December 12, 2012 - Top figures from the Reform, Conservative and Orthodox movements in the United States joined an interfaith call for greater gun controls in the wake of last week's school massacre in Connecticut.

Rabbi David Saperstein, who directs the Reform movement's Religious Action Center, and Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, who directs the Conservative movement's Rabbinical Assembly, appeared at a press conference Friday outside the National Cathedral in Washington D.C. along with mainline Protestant, Evangelical, Roman Catholic and Muslim leaders.

Also appearing at the press conference was Nathan Diament, who directs the Orthodox Union's Washington office.

"We must come together as people of faith, representing the range of religious traditions throughout our country, in a collective call to action to end this crisis,” Saperstein said in a release ahead of the press conference. “The time to end senseless gun violence is now, and as religious leaders, the responsibility to provide moral leadership is ours.”

At the press conference, Saperstein said, "Our worship of guns is a form of idolatry."


1 posted on 12/21/2012 7:32:28 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
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“Judaism is very clear in that you don’t provide weapons to people who are likely to harm you,” Schonfeld added.

Ironically enough Naziism held exactly the same position.
39 posted on 12/21/2012 8:48:53 PM PST by tanknetter
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Jews For The Preservation of Firearms Ownership
46 posted on 12/21/2012 9:15:42 PM PST by nralife (www.fireholder.com)
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The Jews mentioned in this article obviously are not the “NEVER AGAIN” type of Jews.


64 posted on 12/22/2012 12:01:10 PM PST by A. Patriot (Re-electing Obama is like the Titanic backing up to hit the iceberg again.)
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2 non-Observant Jew and one “rabbi” who thinks Marx brought down the law. Where are the Jews?


67 posted on 12/23/2012 10:15:52 PM PST by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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