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After a bit of research, I can tell FReepers that the Ames Jewish Congregation is a house of reform Judaism, so I couldn't care less about what its "Jewish leader" has to say. It is a gigantic joke to consider this guy a leader of much other than stupidity. Certainly not a leader of anything remotely Jewish. Even more interesting is the synagogue Adas Israel of Mason City. From one source, I learned that "...Adas Israel counts some 20 members. The congregation uses a Reform prayer book, but during the High Holidays it uses a Conservative prayerbook." Wow. A leader of 20 Jews. That guy really speaks for the Jews of Iowa, right? This synagogue is also a favorite target for evangelists trying to proselytize the few Jews there. The real highlight of this synagogue is their monthly multi-sectarian discussion of the Torah. I can only imagine the content of those discussions (Oy...). And this guy Steckman has appointed himself a spokesman for the Jews of Iowa.

Talk about mice threatening a lion...these puny shmendriks criticizing King for some act he didn't even do, calling him a "white supremacist" have only served to show the world how truly pathetic they are. Please don't take what they say as anything but stuff and nonsense from 2 idiots in the sticks of Iowa---certainly not "Jewish leaders". Anyone with a vaguely Jewish name who even burps is suddenly a "Jewish leader" according to the libtard media.

25 Oct: USA Today: Donald Trump’s ‘nationalism’ isn’t racist or wrong, it’s what America needs right now
by James S. Robbins
(James S. Robbins, a member of USA TODAY’s Board of Contributors and author of “Erasing America: Losing Our Future by Destroying Our Past,” has taught at the National Defense University and the Marine Corps University and served as a special assistant in the office of the secretary of Defense in the George W. Bush administration)
You know America is in trouble when the president is viciously slammed simply for saying good things about the country.
Appeals to the inherent goodness and manifest greatness of America used to be a staple of political oratory. It was so commonplace that it was entirely noncontroversial. Love of country was taken for granted.

But when President Donald Trump described himself as a “nationalist” at a rally in Texas, it set off a firestorm of criticism. Nationalism is now the new “n-word.” CNN’s Jim Acosta pathetically insinuated the president was making a secret appeal to racism. MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace invoked her History Channel-based education to tie in Nazi appeals to German nationalism, while perhaps being unaware that the Nazis also were ardent socialists. Maybe she missed that program.

This predictable progressive panic is baseless and tiresome. It is a willful misunderstanding of what Trump means when he says nationalist. The president framed the term against “globalist,” which in his words is “a person that wants the globe to do well, frankly not caring about the country so much.”
This has always been part of the president’s America First agenda, to represent U.S. interests in dealings abroad rather than promoting the internationalist agenda of his predecessors of both parties...

Nationalism as a response to the left’s tribalism...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/10/25/donald-trump-nationalist-racist-patriotism-unity-progressives-america-column/1749803002/

I know this area well. There’s about five Jews in and around Mason City. Hasn’t been a minyan for decades unless Lubavitchers visit.

This guy is a volunteer.

Decades ago, there were maybe 30 Jewish families scattered around north Iowa. No more. Some Lubavitchers in Postville. This guy doesn’t speak for them, for sure.