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Dereliction of Duty: Riverdale Rabbi Avi Weiss did in effect resign when he made his feckless comments quoted by the N.Y. Daily News... All these events highlight the abject failure to confront the menace of theologically-motivated Islamic Jew hatred. Despite continuous interfaith “dialogue” sessions, Jewish leaders in both Europe and America never demand a mea culpa from their Muslim interlocutors for the living legacy of doctrinal Islamic Jew hatred whose ugly sequelae are evident on a daily basis. Their dereliction of duty is shameful.

Schwartz for News Rabbi Avi Weiss speaking at an earlier event in support of Israel. He told congregants at the the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale Saturday not to blame Islam for the recent plot to bomb synagogues. In the Bronx neighborhood targeted by a terror plot, a prominent rabbi cautioned Sabbath worshippers Saturday against condemning the Muslim religion. "We dare not condemn Islam over this one act," Rabbi Avi Weiss told congregants at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale. Weiss' temple was not targeted in the alleged conpsiracy, but two other Riverdale synagogues were. The four Jew-hating suspects were homegrown...