Weiss is not a real Jew. He is of the Reform denomination (what real Jews called "Deformed" Judaism). They usually follow Marx more than Moses, demand the "peace process" (vivisection of Israel) and "interfaith dialogue" (appeasement to Islam). And of course they worship the Jew-hating Obama.
It is a constant source of embarrassment and anger to real Jews when Deformed scumbags like Weiss open their stupid secular mouths.
FYI...Overall "Jews" voted 69% for JohnKerry. But "Religious Jews" voted 71% for Bush, according to the Republican Jewish Coalition. Thankfully, these Socialist JINOs are intermarrying, turning gay, and aborting their babies, so eventually they will be cleansed from our clan, just like the Golden Calf sinner were cleansed by God in the desert. Meanwhile religious Jews are having 6.5 kids per couple.
LOL!
Don't forget it took Moses 40 years of wandering in the desert to eliminate the slave mentality of the Hebrews who escaped Pharaoh. Here in the USA, it's a bit overdue though.
Thanks for explaining that! <3
Rabbi Weiss is an Orthodox Rabbi, not a Reform one. He also used to call his synagogue an Orthodox Synagogue for Jews of all denominations, and it was in his synagogue that I first moved to the Orthodox way of religious practice.
He was the Rabbi who led demonstrations against the Soviet Union for its persecution of the Jews, and appeared wearing his talis and blowing his shofar in front of the Russian consulate on many occasions. He was arrested at an anti-Soviet demonstration at Lincoln Center and suffered a heart attack shortly after his arrest. Following that, he and the NYPD worked out a rapprochement through which he would be peacefully arrested at future demonstrations.
He was the Rabbi who flew to Vienna to disrupt the ceremony in St. Stephen’s Cathedral where the Pope was going to give honor to ex-Nazi Kurt Waldheim, and he led demonstrations against efforts to dilute the identification of the Auschwitz concentration camp with its Jewish victims.
Rabbi Weiss always has strived to build bridges to those who disagree with him on certain issues.
He was scheduled to debate the late Rabbi Meir Kahane the night that he was assassinated by Muslim terrorists. He also had a close relationship with Sister Rose Thering, a Catholic Nun who expresseed her love for the Jewish people and her support of the State of Israel.
I think that by his statement about Islam reported in the article at the top of this thread he probably was trying to leave the door open to working with Muslims who condemn terrorism, and if I remember correctly he did have a relationship with an Italian Imam who did just that.
Years ago, when a den of radical Muslim terrorist sympathizers was uncovered at a mosque in New Jersey just over the GW Bridge, Rabbi Weiss led a demonstration there where he said, “I am not here to condemn this mosque,” trying to differentiate between the religion and its institutions, on the one hand, and the purveyors of hate, on the other. The NYTimes reported that he said “We are here to condemn this mosque,” and they didn’t correct their error for more than a year after its occurrence.
I disagreed with his decision not to condemn that mosque, and if he said that the attempted attack on synagogues in Riverdale is not linked to Muslim anti-Semitism, then I disagree with him there, too. Nevertheless, I remain convinced that Rabbi Weiss is the American Orthodox Rabbi who perhaps is the most outspoken in his support of Israel.
Rabbi Weiss also leads a yeshivah that purports to train Orthodox Rabbis, but has veered more to the left, religiously, than the Orthodox Jewish world is comfortable with. I think this is part of his effort to build bridges, and while I disagree with this approach as well I do understand that it is well-intentioned and that what he is trying to accomplish through this effort is a sense of Jewish unity that should be praised, not condemned.