Jewish leaders to devise strategy

The Washington Times ^ | December 5, 2005 | Julia Duin

[neverdem]

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Jewish leaders to devise strategy

By Julia Duin
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published December 5, 2005

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A group of Jewish leaders meets in New York this week to develop a response to the religious right, which they say is eroding civil liberties and planning to "christianize America."

    Led by Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), and Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, the private meeting is set for today, said an assistant to Mr. Yoffie.

    Both men were unavailable for comment Friday, and neither organization would divulge details of the meeting, including who else is attending and where it is being held.

    But the meeting is the culmination of a month of attacks by Mr. Foxman and Mr. Yoffie on conservative Christian groups, starting with Mr. Foxman's speech Nov. 3 at an ADL function in New York.

    "We face a better-financed, more sophisticated, coordinated, unified, energized and organized coalition of groups in opposition to our policy positions on church-state separation than ever before," he said. "Their goal is to implement their Christian worldview. To Christianize America. To save us."

    The chief villains, he said, were the Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family; the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Alliance Defense Fund; the Tupelo, Miss.-based American Family Association; and the Family Research Council, based in Washington.

    "This issue is serious enough for us to develop a strategy, and, clearly, our first task is to win the support of the American public," Mr. Foxman said. "We also need to come together with other Jewish..."

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    On Nov. 19, Mr. Yoffie compared the religious right to Nazis...

[Inyokern]

Eric Yoffe and Arthur Waskow are not Jewish leaders. They represent only the far left.

[jocon307]

Yeah, well, listen up Mr. Foxman, the religeous right is at least not planning to chop your silly head off. Unlike some other folks, who shall remain nameless.

[Starve The Beast]

A group of Jewish leaders meets in New York this week to develop a response to the religious right...

I guess that the global spread of Islamic extremism doesn't pose the immediate threat of, say, James Dobson.

I'm embarrassed for the ADL.

[Smarti Pants]

Are they like...on something??

Every (real) Christian I know reveres the Jewish people as their religion is the very foundation of all that we are & hold dear to our hearts. What are those boys thinking?

[MarkL]

Abe Foxman and his ilk in this group, are dispicable pieces of ... Well, I can't say, this IS a public forum.

I can't express the level of disgust that this Jew has for them.

Mark

[West Coast Conservative]

More:

Criticism has been strong among conservative-leaning Jews.

"Foxman loves to whine about the religious right and how they're destroying religious liberty in America," said Don Feder, president of Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation.

"Is wanting to keep God in the Pledge of Allegiance Christianizing America? Is opposition to gay marriage Christianizing America? Is efforts to keep public displays of the Ten Commandments Christianizing America? If so, Moses was a Christianizer."

[catonsville]

Foxman pulls in over $500,000 in salary as the head of ADL.
To finance that outrageous amount he has to convince all those rich widows in Boca that the next pogrom begins in 30 minutes. He also appeals to secular, mainly atheistic Jews and others who hate ALL religious expression.

His campaign against Mel Gibson produced the most contributions in ADL history.

The sad part is his willingness to sacrifice Evangelical support for Israel and the relationship between Christians and Jews in this country to get money. He makes some Christians angry, he makes many Jews even more so.



(Check the Jewish bloggers, overwhelmingly against Foxman. The ADL is just not that important any more.}

[StuLongIsland]

These people don't represent me, an embarassment they are. They make many of us look bad. Kind of like having Al Sharpton as your leader same idea.

[Wilhelm Tell]

Let's ignore the Islamo-fascists who want to kill every Jew and set up a worldwide caliphate. Now Jerry Falwell turning on the lights of a Christmas tree -- that is terrifying!

That is a shiny tag line, by the way.

[ChicagoHebrew]

Bad headline. Should read "liberal Jewish leaders." I don't see Mort Klein or the head of the OU quoted anywhere.

[wardaddy]

Abraham Foxman is not a Jewish leader anymore than David Geffen is.

[ChicagoHebrew]

Abe Foxman is the Al Sharpton of Judiasm. His livelihood depends on causing controversy and finding "antisemitism" everywhere. Eric Yoffie is head of Reform Judaism, which functions more like a wing of the Democratic Party than a religious movement. These guys represent about 30% of American Jews.

[wardaddy]

lol

i tried to say that very thing the other day here but was not so eloquent and got my hand chopped off by one who shall remain nameless

nice post

better to ignore a clear and present danger and concentrate instead on the best friend our kinfolk in Israel have...makes plenty of sense.

i knew the Teitelbaums done in Miami and one of them was the local ADL guy....they weren't stupid folks...I wonder if all the local chapters are this radical.

[familyop]

That's not a very honest headline.

Foxman isn't considered to be a Jewish leader except maybe by some in the Reform movement and other people on the left.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

I heard Yoffe speak in Houston a few weeks ago and he was quite gracious towards Christians who, in religous mixed marriages, sincerely participate in raising their children as Jews. He suggested they ought to be thanked by the Reform Jewish community. His speach was quite touching.

[Piranha]

Not in my name...

[JSDude1]

THey need to be revealed for what they are: ANTI-CHRISTIAN BIGGOTS and HATERS;

What most of these so called anti-defemation groups fail to realize (or rather choose not to believe..) is that America was founded on Christian principles, with the majority of its Citizens being Christians for most of US History, it is only recently that America has forgotten her Christian past..

Plus becuase of this (American's Godly herritage..) We live in a Constitutional Republic form of government, where the rights of all ARE respected, even those that want to practice minority religions, lifestyles. -ANd this in a CHRISTIAN nation!- Would the Muslims do the same? (DOES EVEN ISRAEL GIVE CITIZENSHIP TO CHRISTIANS :)?)

Beside that they are just trying to devide Jews who believe many of the same things as Orthodox/Fundamental Christians and therefore have the same MORALS-leading to goals as today's "religious right"; It's not going to work. I hope these secularists fail once again in their attempt to demonize Christianity and others of good standing!

[The Fop]

What gets me is that all these liberal Jews spent years trying to convince the Vatican to recognize Israel. When Pope John Paul finally did establish relations with Israel, they were dancing in the streets.

Why would it be so important to these people for the Vatican, who has been so pro-Palestinian for so many years, and were very much responsible for the spread of antisemitsim in Europe, to recognize Israel? Yet they view Evangelical Christians in America, the one country that has been good to the Jews, who are enthusiastically pro-Israel, with nothing but suspicion and contempt.

I'LL TELL YOU WHY, DAMMIT....

Most American Jews live in big cities, at least they did a few decades ago. They had friends and neighbors who were Catholics....Italians, Irish, Hispanics. They figure that if the Vatican recognizes Israel, all those nice Catholics will like them even better.

Most American Jews also had ancestors who came from rural areas of Poland, Russia, the Ukraine, etc. Their ancestors were persecuted by blond haired, light eyed, rural, nationalistic Christians. So they see Evangelical Christians, who also live in rural areas and are also nationalistic, and who also tend to have blond hair and light eyes, as the American equivalent to the people who persecuted them in Eastern Europe.

These liberal Jews are engaged in a combination of knee jerk racial prejudice and big city elitism. There is an old Yiddish expresssion...."goyishakop". It means the face of a goy (the face of a non Jew). You'll never hear a Jew describe a Black, Hispanic or Asian as a goyishakop. It's always someone with blond hair, light eyes and a turned up nose.

A mob of Blacks can start an anti-Jewish pogrom in Brooklyn and these liberal Jews just yawn. Left wing college students can call for the destruction of Israel and the liberal Jews yawn. But when a blond haired, light eyed, goyishakop with a Southern accent from a small rural town talks about Jesus, these idiots go nuts.

They are an embarrassment. At least the Orthodox, Hasidic and Sephardic Jews vote Republican.

[PA Engineer]

Interesting point. I believe this is nothing more than the continued democrat campaign to undermine our country and president. It seems that dean has found himself two more whores.