Congregant: Plame not member of temple (NM - Valerie lies)

The Albuquerque Journal ^ | January 9, 2020 | Mark Oswald

[CedarDave]

SANTA FE – A prominent member of Temple Beth Shalom says former CIA operative Valerie Plame, contrary to what she recently told an Israeli journalist, is not a member of the Jewish congregation in Santa Fe.

Plame, now a New Mexico congressional candidate, continues to draw criticism for retweeting an anti-Semitic article headlined “Jews are Driving America’s Wars” in 2017. But she said in the recent interview that she’s drawn to her own Jewish heritage and that she has joined Temple Beth Shalom.

One of her opponents in the race for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. House seat in New Mexico’s 3rd Congressional District has repeatedly called attention to the controversial 2017 tweet, for which Plame has apologized. The campaign of Santa Fe District Attorney Marco Serna says Plame “shared antisemitic conspiracy theories.”

Plame said during [a recent ABQ Journal] videotaped interview that she’d discovered that her great-grandfather was a rabbi in Ukraine, that she had “always been drawn to that aspect of my Jewish heritage” and that this interest led her to Temple Beth Shalom in Santa Fe.

She said she is a member of the temple. Israeli journalist Tal Schneider, who interviewed Plame, reported confirming with members of the local Jewish community that Plame had attended some services.

But Daniel Yohalem, a Santa Fe attorney who is a member of Temple Beth Shalom and has served on the temple board, said Wednesday that Plame has never been a member of the congregation, at least as of earlier this week. He said he checked the temple’s membership list and also confirmed with the congregation’s staff that Plame is not a member.

“I am deeply concerned about Miss Plame’s repeated apparent lack of candor on these issues,” said Yohalem.

[Honest Nigerian]

awww knock it off.
she self-identifies as a Jew.
so she IS a Jew.
and she has the updated birth certificate to prove it /S
LOLOLOLOL

[indthkr]

"drawn to her own Jewish heritage"

Which part - the part that is actually a religion with associated beliefs and practices, and recognizes that Jerusalum and Israel would necessarily be part of that mix?

Or just the Bundism part?

[Ann Archy]

Dear Jews.....All DEMOCRATS are LIARS!!!

[LegendHasIt]

I don’t see how pretending to be a Jew will help this carpetbagger to win an election in New Mexico... Seems like pretending to be a Jew would be more useful in New York or Florida.

[CedarDave]

I don’t see how pretending to be a Jew will help this carpetbagger to win an election in New Mexico... Seems like pretending to be a Jew would be more useful in New York or Florida.

See my tag line. That's the Democratic Party in northern New Mexico.