Posted on 08/20/2016 2:16:34 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
JTA - Forty American "Open" Orthodox clergy co-signed a letter condemning Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for what they called his “hateful rhetoric and intolerant policy proposals.”
The letter, whose signatories included Irving “Yitz” Greenberg, the founding president of Clal-The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership in New York City — was published Friday on the website Cleveland.com.
Noting that “religion should be invoked with care” when addressing politics, the rabbis added that, “Nevertheless, there are times when the political discourse veers into morally offensive language and policy proposals that violate fundamental religious norms.”
The rabbis’ “core religious values and essential theological beliefs,” they wrote, “require us to condemn Donald Trump’s hateful rhetoric and intolerant policy proposals in the strongest possible terms.”
In the current presidential election campaign, they also wrote, “we have been deeply troubled to hear proposals that condemn whole groups and which are justified by pointing to evil behaviors by members of that group or religion.”
Trump has called for banning Muslims from entering the United States and later, in remarks made in the context of the fight against radical Islam, for “extreme vetting” of immigrants.
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We should make sure that all 600,000 Muslim “refugees” that Hillary intends to import settle on the east coast. And don’t expect the rest of us to care when the beheading starts at synagogs.
They do not speak for me. Fools
“I fully support Israel”
Yeah, that’s real hateful rhetoric right there, fools.
Probably fresh off an aclu abortion fund raising tour and campaigning for Debbie.
All 40 probably hate the Israelis for terrorizing the ‘palestinians.’
They have communist roots
And Trump would be the first one to their rescue too.
Sheesh.
left wing Dems. You get 2 Jews in a room you get 3 opinions. Lots of Jews like Trump he is very popular in the New York City Jewish community.
First he is a past Marshall of the Israel day parade. He is a founder of the N.Y. Holocaust Museum and has been honored over the years many times for support of Israel.
Grandpa DJT has 3 Jewish grandkids and tons of Jewish employees and friends.
The thought that extreme vetting would prevent anti Semitic bigots from coming to the USA yet these so called Rabbis are against it shows how out of the mainstream they are.
Great. Social Justice Warrior rabbis.
We don’t care about your name-calling.
Hey rabbis, call back when you’ve let muzzies live in your own homes.
Is it something in the borscht?
Self-hating Jews, anyone??
Oy vey!
40 idiots align with ISIS.
But, I’m sure they whole-heartedly approve of the wall Israel has, and the tight control that Israel maintains on its borders.
Idiots
every morning, God has to think it over whether He wants to renew humanity’s lease on Rock Three for that new day, or not.
perhaps He renewed us today for our entertainment value....He wants to see if any other clerics can possibly come up with a more STUPID statement than these guys’
Their words betray their own religion and its values! Most Orthodox Jews aren't this "secular" and that these signators are Rabbis, is shocking.
40? Wow!
There’s more than that number in Brooklyn!......
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