WH Visitor Logs Suggest J Street Contributed To U.S.-Israel Diplomatic Crisis (PJM Exclusive)
Last month the White House pulled out the red carpet to welcome Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, but the charm campaign is a new phenomenon. Less than six months ago, the U.S.-Israel relationship was in deep trouble.
On March 9, Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Israel and was told of an administrative announcement by the Ministry of Interior approving one of the first stages toward the construction of 1,600 apartments in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood in northern Jerusalem. The announcement represented no dramatic change of policy or diplomatic message. But the Americans responded as if it was a deliberate high-level slap in the face, and the Israeli government apologized profusely.
After two days of condemnations from the White House followed by Israel’s profuse apologies, it appeared that the crisis was over. On March 11, the Associated Press reported that Biden “attempted to soothe tensions in a speech extolling the countries’ close relationship, signaling the U.S. wants to move beyond an embarrassing diplomatic spat over settlements that tarnished his three-day visit.”
Biden noted that the prime minister had “clarified that the beginning of actual construction on this particular project would likely take several years. … That’s significant because it gives negotiators the time to resolve this as well as other outstanding issues.” Press accounts reported that Netanyahu had called Biden on Thursday morning, “and both agreed the crisis is behind them.”
It wasn’t.
On March 12, in a move coordinated with the White House, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton unleashed a 43-minute telephone harangue of Prime Minister Netanyahu. Clinton called the settlement approval a “deeply negative signal about Israel’s approach to the bilateral relationship … which had undermined trust and confidence in the peace process.” The State Department spokesman said Clinton stressed that “the Israeli government needed to demonstrate not just through words, but through specific actions, that they are committed to this relationship and to the peace process.”
On March 13, Netanyahu convened a meeting of his inner cabinet to discuss the Clinton call and to announce that he was setting up a government committee to oversee building announcements. On March 14, Netanyahu discussed the issue with the full cabinet and declared that the incident was “regrettable and should not have taken place.” Ostensibly, the issue was over, at least as far as Israel was concerned.
Yet the White House — still! — had other plans.
Hours later, presidential adviser David Axelrod went on Sunday’s TV news shows to attack the settlement decision. He said it was “very destructive … an affront … an insult. … What it did was it made more difficult a very difficult process.”
Over the next few days, anti-Israel and critical columnists and bloggers unleashed their venom against Israel. On March 15, the New York Times’ Roger Cohen wrote:
President Barack Obama was furious. In a top-down administration like this one, you don’t get Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lambasting Netanyahu for 43 minutes and David Axelrod, a senior White House adviser, speaking of “an affront” and “an insult” and a “very, very destructive” step if America’s measured leader is not immeasurably incensed. … Netanyahu’s apology is not enough. The United States is asking for “specific actions.”
So what happened?
A fire that was supposedly extinguished flared up again and again.
Clearly, while Biden and Netanyahu were making up, in the White House a decision was made to apply Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s famous strategy for crisis management:
You never want a serious crisis to go to waste, and what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you didn’t think you could do before.
The 1,600 Jerusalem apartments would become the anvil on which the administration would forge a pliant Israel. The message would have to be amplified, and for the White House, the pro-Obama, purportedly pro-Israel J Street was a perfect vehicle.
Photo of Obama kissing hand of Saudi criminal who sponsored 911.
It doesn’t get much more obvious than this.
http://jewishdailyreport.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/obama-kissing-hands-of-911-criminals/
I have said befor and I still maintain. we have the absolutely most STUPID most CORRUPT administration in Washington we have ever had in my short 74 years on Gods green earth,
You are right William. Unfortunately that probably won’t Obama’s changes for re-election.
Good to have my suspicions confirmed, but there never was a doubt that J Street was formed to act as a foil, a counterweight to pro Israel proponents.
Under the guise of pro Israel leanings, J Street infiltrated the Jewish community umbrella. Few should have ANY doubt that Obama’s Jew boys were more than happy to do his bidding. They were thrilled to do so.
Barack Obama’s hostility towards Israel and his antagonism towards the Jewish People is a given, and has not been in the slightest bit modified, his charm offensive towards Netanyahu notwithstanding.
Barack Obama is also deeply sympathetic to the Palestinians in particular and the Arabs in general, and takest the Palestinian narrative of victimhood and suffering at the hands of Israel very seriously.
David Axelrod and Rahm Emmanuel are radical Leftist Jews who largely share Obama’s antagonism towards Israel and believe that the Israeli and Jewish agenda, whatever that may be, has seriously damaged America’s standing in the Middle East and contibuted greatly to the hostility many Moslems and Arabs feel towards the United States. These two clowns also believe that the only way for the US to regain the respect of the Moslem and Arab world is to minimize and downgrade America’s relationship with Israel.
This is exactly the program that JStreet has made it’s raison detat and thus it is no wonder that they are welcome in the White House.
Barack Obama and the Democrat Party will pay a high price in the next mid term and general elections for their perfidy and duplicity towards Israel.
J Street is an Anti-Israel group in masquerade, it’s Amalek!
One honorable Christian–George Will or any member of the Cheney family, for instance–is worth a thousand Jerk Streeters. Better a Christian friend than a Jewish enemy. The Evangelicals Jerk Streeters reflexively hate were Zionism’s co-founders and remain our closest allies.
But David, thay’re not liberal Democrats… .
One of the continuing mysteries of American Politics is the ardent support of many Jewish groups for the liberal or “progressive” Democrat agenda when they have been hostile to Israel and its interests for at least 25 years now. I’ve seen attempts at explanations but they just don’t ring true.
Nothing new under the sun. I used to read MJ Rosenberg’s astounding pieces at the Israel Insider site. You need a modest understanding of History, social climbing and Stockholm Syndrome to ‘get’ what these people say. Something like ‘the world is a loving, accepting place for all, including Jews. Sadly, nearly all Jews (except us!) have been brainwashed by a combination of Orthodoxy and misplaced nostalgic attachment to concepts like ‘land’ and ‘security.’ While this is understandable from a psychological POV (and I, MJ Rosenberg, Richard Cohen, Tony Judt, Michael Lerner and our Israeli equivalents) are experts in the psycho-pathology of our fellow Jews, we know that the world is in fact a universalistic heaven. And to prove it, we will help our fellow Jews commit suicide. We won’t ask this of any of your loving Gentiles – you have already proven your love.’
Thanks to the J Streeters and their fellow-travelers in Peace Now, etc. Thanks for all you do.
I am shocked that the more conservative Jewish groups don’t ever get mentioned. They need to come to the forefront and speak up loudly and often, not just for Israel’s sake, but for the sake of this country and peace in the world. We have a very far-left, destructive, and corrupt group in office right now, but it won’t last forever. What is truly frightening is that this president, for whatever reasons, is allowing Iran to get the bomb. Then none of us will be safe, including Arabs.
The question should be who is funding J Street and helping to cause all these issues.
http://ralphsrant1.blogspot.com
Maybe Pelosi should investigate.
So, building a ground zero mosque is a civil property right best left to the local zoning board’s determination under the constitution, according to Obama, but apparently this absolute civil right in New York does not exist in Jerusalem where only Arabs are supposed to have property rights, and local Jerusalem zoning boards are forbidden, in the administration’s eyes, to recognize the property rights of Jews. In fact, apparently Palestine is supposed to be Jew free. Well, if that’s the administration’s moral paradigm, perhaps we should start deporting Muslims, in the interest of consistency and reciprocity, and have a Muslim free country–after all, Muslims are not indigenous to the New World. Give peace a chance, just say no to mosques. You know, multi ethnic and multicultural societies seem to always require absolutist authoritarian states led by a select elite; no wonder multiculturalism is popular with the academic left, who usually bad mouth religion in the public square, in the interest of religious freedom of course. I always say, There’s no sense being a bigot, if you can’t act like a bigot.
Look people, the “Anointed One” makes his chess move’s and us babbling humans need to realize that the unbelieving conspiracy “heathen” understate the issues when they say that Obama is a radical. Alas, they know not the secrets we are all going to witness. The “Anointed One” is amazing, he takes the people at the highly efficient Post Office and sends them right over to the Student Loan Program. The “Anointed One” knows all. Twitter messages were machine-gunned to cell phones at mach speed. Facebook and MySpace groups spread across the Internet like digital fire. YouTube videos featuring celebrities ricocheted across the globe and into college students’ in-boxes with devastating regularity. All the while, the Obama mega-money-raising engine whirred on at high speed, until the result became inevitable: an unthinking mass of young voters marched forward to elect the “Anointed One.”
I am not surprised to hear these stinking lies about our “Anointed One,” it should be apparent to anyone that this was coming down the pike. I do have a couple questions about future process steps concerning these developments? When the “Annointed One” decides to start bar-coding everyone, will we get to decide if the mark is on our hand or forehead? Allot of people will prefer the hand, (especially women of course), unless your a porn actress or something along those lines. Also, my girlfriend was wondering if the Administration will be getting fashion advice from Hollyweird or the New York City crowd? We are both agree that the Administration “Maoies” as the “Anointed One ” so lovingly calls them,will be getting uniforms similar to the SS uniforms in Germany in WW2. With big letters abreviating “Barack’s Socialists.” So shall we start calling them the BS?
I don’t know what to call them, but it does look as if a socialist Big Brother will be controlling the West more and more as time progresses. Whether the next Prez is Hilary or a RINO like Romney or Huckabee, the beat will go on. I think it’s fair to say – in contradiction to the somewhat hysterical pieces by VDH – that the days of the US as a deeply moral constitutional republic are over.
Hey Larry, you can call them Obamunists. I read that somewhere yesterday & it seemed very appropriate.
I won’t comment re: J-Street since the guidelines for comments says no profanity or foul language.
Maybe the guidelines need to be updated? You never know with the censorship on message boards. The J Street types were not as bad 10-15 years ago, just like Shalom Achshav in those days. But the pressure becomes too much, Israel keeps ‘misbehaving’, and they eventually throw thee and me under the bus. It happens, they’re sorry, but they have no choice.
Terry, I’m afraid reeducation camps are in both our futures.
Larry, I agree with you. I think it’s too late to recover from the damage done by the socialists and liberals during the past 50 years or so.
It will be too late if we don’t welcome them back. Obamunist Jews in particular need somewhere to turn especially after their buyers remorse turns to anger. We must leverage this painful learning experience and reeducate our masses less they fall prey again. Ignoring and shunning the misguided and ill informed fosters repeat behavior, why berate them when they they’re quenching enlightenment?
That’s a tough one. You’re right in theory. In practice, I have never discriminated against a ‘known leftist’, Jewish or not. OTOH I have had the experience, as have had other conservative folks, of being absolutely shunned by several lefties. Yes, the Gedulim tell us to embrace our brothers, but I also ask when does a brother become an enemy? If someone wars against me based on my politics and causes me personal injury, do I just embrace that person? I don’t think so, especially when the left party usually begins with the assumption that the conservative is basically an evil bigot.
Yet, Obama got 70 % of the Jewish vote!!! C’mom, we are a bunch of Commie lovers but when we don’t get our way..we star to complain..The era of the Dhimmi Jew has to come to an end and we have to be clear for what we stand for. When you have Jews like the idiot of Paul Krugman telling this Administration how to run the economy and when you have Soros(a self-hating Jew) trying to destroy the U.S…what does that say about us! If we continue to support Communism, we will not have an Israel in the future and the Arabs know that.
Although I support Israel, there are times when I wish Israel went to hell, because of those 70%.
I never comment on the US internal issues, since I am not a US citizen.
I wish, though, to make an exception regarding the J Street: what I heard over and over from the Holocaust survivors is that the Jewish Kapos were the worst, worse than the SS.
I am Jewish and Israeli.
And the hapless Jewish voters will continue their loving support of “The One” and all his minions who continue to figurately bow and kiss the ring to curry favor in the Muslim world.
J Street and the other Jews in this administration are the equivalent of the Kappos
in the Concentration camps. When talking about the Jews never underestimate their
talent for self destruction. These Jews think that this anti-Semitic administration
doesn’t mean them. Ask the German Jews how it ended the last time. The ones still alive.
Is part of the article missing? I see no reference to visitor logs or even J-street other than the last sentence, which has no citations, links or proof.
Israel as the only operating democratic government in the middle east is also afflicted by subtly subversive organizations birthed by ambitious ideologues and cultivated for the sole purpose of magnifying controversies arising within the government or a diverse population. Such ambition is unavoidable in any free society with little restriction on the poison injected into the minds of any second generation subjected to the swill and devoid of any historical proof. The sworn enemy of any democratic form of government on earth has learned well how to adopt and adapt the ambitions of such ideologues to promote an agenda both contrary to their continued existence and complimentary to the feeding frenzy of a mass media that openly promotes it’s agenda. Israel and all others considered to be infidels cannot submit to any form of encroachment without expecting to pay later. It doesn’t take a genius to see that big media support always exposes the enemy by deeming them newsworthy and eventually revealing their secretive affiliations and tainted money trail to all that have learned how to read between the lines of biased corrupted pretense of news.
Interesting but more likely infuriating, how America bullies and berates Israel for perceived, non-violent affronts to the diplomatic peace process but remains largely silent about the infinitely more outrageous and deadly assaults by the Palestinians against Israel. The violence by the Palestinians is attributed to Israeli intransigence and the legal Israeli blockade against aid to the “impoverished” Palestinians forced to live in the poverty prevalent in the Gaza strip; despite ample and readily available evidence belying the latter assertion and the fact that Israel does not block anything other than items of a military nature.
The U.S. Congress should be applauded for their support of Israel and J Street severely castigated for their hypocrisy but the Israeli situation in the Middle East will not be resolved until the tidal wave of Islamic supremacism is reversed and soundly defeated. Considering that this wave is now on the rise Obama will be in the history books as the worst American President ever long before this happens; as it must if freedom is to triumph over theocratic despotism.
The world should know the names of Rabbi’s who line up behind Obama’s anti-Israel policies. Here are some of the J Street Rabbinic Counsel Members:
Rabbi Sam Gordon, National Co-Chair, Rabbis for Obama
Rabbi Steve Bob, National Co-Chair, Rabbis for Obama
Vice-Chairs:
Rabbi Rachel Cowan, New York, NY
Rabbi Ellen Weinberg Dreyfus, Homewood, IL
* Rabbi Elliot Dorff, Los Angeles, CA
Rabbi Steve Foster, Denver, CO
Rabbi Dayle Friedman, Philadelphia, PA
* Rabbi Laura Geller, Los Angeles, CA
Rabbi Don Gluckman, Pikesville, MD
Rabbi Nancy Fuchs Kreimer, Wyncote, PA
Rabbi Charles Kroloff, Westfield, NJ
* Rabbi Richard N. Levy, Encino, CA
Rabbi Brian Lurie, San Francisco, CA
Rabbi Rachel Mikva, Rye Brook, NY
Rabbi Jack Moline, Alexandria, VA
Rabbi Charles Simon, New York, NY
Rabbi David Teutsch, Philadelphia, PA
Rabbi Burt Visotzky, New York, NY
Rabbi Ethan Tucker, New York, NY
Members:
* Rabbi Jonathan Aaron, Los Angeles, CA
Rabbi Bruce Abrams, Cleveland Heights, OH
Rabbi David Adelson, New York, NY
Rabbi Adam M. Allenberg, Mountain View, CA
Rabbi Victor Appell, New York, NY
Rabbi Stephen A. Arnold, S. Easton, MA
Rabbi Aryeh Azriel, Omaha, NE
Rabbi Larry Bach, El Paso, TX
Rabbi Andy Bachman, Brooklyn, NY
Rabbi Chava Bahle, Suttons Bay, MI
Rabbi Andrew Baker, Washington, D.C.
Rabbi Michael Barenbaum, Marin, CA
Rabbi Benjy Bar-Lev, Cincinnati, OH
Rabbi Lewis Barth, Encino, CA
Rabbi Morris Barzilai, New Rochelle, NY
Rabbi Elliot Baskin, Greenwood Village, CO
Rabbi Renee Bauer, Madison, WI
Rabbi Pamela Frydman Baugh, San Francisco, CA
* Rabbi Leonard I. Beerman, Los Angeles, CA
Rabbi Annie Belford, St. Louis, MO
* Rabbi Karen Bender, Tarzana, CA
Rabbi Donald R. Berlin, St. Michaels, MD
* Rabbi Linda Bertenthal, Los Angeles, CA
Rabbi Marjorie Berman, Philadelphia PA
Rabbi Phyllis Berman, Philadelphia, PA
Rabbi Jonathan Biatch, Madison, WI
Rabbi Michael Birnholz, Vero Beach, FL
Rabbi Aaron B. Bisno, Pittsburgh, PA
Rabbi Joshua Boettiger, Bennington, VA
Rabbi Terry Bookman, Miami, Fl
Rabbi Jill Borodin, Seattle, WA
Rabbi Neal Borovitz, River Edge, NJ
* Rabbi Sara Brandes, Los Angeles, CA
Rabbi Herbert Bronstein, Glencoe, IL
Rabbi Lester Bronstein, White Plains, NY
Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, New York, NY
Rabbi Gustav Buchdahl, Baltimore, MD
Rabbi Caryn Broitman, W. Tisbury, MA
Rabbi Daniel M. Bronstein, Brooklyn, NY
Rabbi Carol Caine Berkeley, CA
Rabbi Debra S. Cantor Newington, CT
* Rabbi Kenneth Chasen, Los Angeles, CA
Rabbi Steven Chester, Oakland, CA
Rabbi Hillel Cohn, San Bernardino, CA
Rabbi David J. Cooper, Piedmont, CA
Rabbi Julian I. Cook, Denver, CO
Rabbi Mychal Copeland, Stanford, CA
Rabbi Laurie Coskey, Poway, CA
Rabbi Meryl M. Crean, Media, PA
Rabbi Menachem Creditor, Berkeley, CA
* Rabbi William Cutter, Los Angeles, CO
Rabbi Eric Cytryn, Harrisburg, PA
Rabbi Harry K Danziger, Germantown, TN
Rabbi Andrew Davids, Croton On Hudson, NY
* Rabbi Stanley Davids, Santa Monica, CA
Rabbi Jerome Davidson, Kings Point, NY
Rabbi Eliezer Diamond, Teaneck, NJ
Rabbi Fred Dobb, Bethesda, MD
Rabbi William Dreskin, Greenburgh, NY
Rabbi Renee Edelman, South Orange, NJ
Rabbi Amy Eilberg, St. Paul, MN
Rabbi Bruce Elder, Highland Park, IL
Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell, Philadelphia, PA
Rabbi Shira Koch Epstein, Brooklyn, NY
Rabbi Daniel Fellman, East Brunswick, NJ
Rabbi Brian Field, Denver CO
Rabbi Daniel Fink, Boise, ID
* Rabbi Reuven Firestone, Los Angeles, CA
Rabbi Alan Flam, Barrington, RI
Rabbi Nancy Flam, Northampton, MA
Rabbi Ellen Flax, New York, NY
Rabbi Michael Friedland, South Bend, IN
Rabbi Joan S. Friedman, Wooster, OH
Rabbi Marsha Friedman, Elkins Park, PA
Rabbi Ronne Friedman, Brookline, MA
Rabbi Stacy Friedman, San Rafael, CA
Rabbi Randy Fleisher St. Louis, MO
Rabbi Serena Fujita, Lewisburg, PA
Rabbi Jack S. Gabriel, Sonoma, CA
Rabbi Ruth Gais, Summit, NJ
Rabbi Hillel Gamoran, Seattle, WA
* Rabbi Robert T. Gan, Los Angeles, CA
Rabbi Rachel Gartner, Montclair, NJ
Rabbi Ruth Gelfarb, New York, NY
Rabbi Jonathan Gerard, Easton, PA
Rabbi Gary Gerson, Oak Park, IL
Rabbi Gordon Gladstone, Bayonne NJ
* Rabbi Miriyam Glazer, Los Angeles, CA
Rabbi Steve Glazer, Herndon, VA
Rabbi Mark Glickman, Woodinville, WA
Rabbi Arnie Gluck, Skillman, NJ
Rabbi Shai Gluskin, Philadelphia, PA
Rabbi Rosalind Gold, Reston, VA
Rabbi Gerald A. Goldman, Holyoke, MA
Rabbi James Stone Goodman, St. Louis, MO
Rabbi Joseph Goldman, Denver, CO
Rabbi Andrea Goldstein, St. Louis, MO
* Rabbi Jerrold Goldstein, Sherman Oaks, CA
Rabbi Jeffrey W. Goldwasser, Williamstown, MA
Rabbi Stephen Goodman, Garden City, NY
Rabbi Donald Goor, Tarzana, CA
Rabbi Seth William Goren, Washington, DC
* Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater, Pasadena, CA
Rabbi Alan Greenbaum, Grass Valley, CA
Rabbi C. Michelle Greenberg, Northfield, IL
Rabbi David Greenspoon, Baltimore, MD
Rabbi Suzanne Griffel, Chicago, IL
Rabbi Daniel Gropper, Rye, NY
Rabbi Susan Grossman, Columbia, MD
Rabbi Joshua Gutoff, Brooklyn, NY
Rabbi Debra Hachen, Demarest, NJ
Rabbi Shoshana Hantman, Katonah, NY
Rabbi Maurice Harris, Eugene, OR
Rabbi Robert Harris, White Plains, NY
* Rabbi Alan Henkin, Northridge, CA
Rabbi Jeffrey Hoffman, White Plains, NY
Rabbi Elliot Holin, Elkins Park, PA
Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt, New Haven, CT
Rabbi Linda Holtzman, Philadelphia, PA
Rabbi Margaret Holub, Mendecino, CA
Rabbi Abie Ingber, Cincinnati, OH
* Rabbi Steven B. Jacobs, Woodland Hills, CA
Rabbi Devorah Jacobson, Amherst, MA
Rabbi Howard L. Jaffe, Lexington, MA
Rabbi Jennifer Jaech, Peekskill NY
Rabbi Rebecca Joseph, New York, NY
Rabbi Bruce Kadden, Tacoma, WA
Rabbi Amy Kalmanofsky, New York, NY
Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky, New York, NY
* Rabbi Ben Kamin, Del Mar, CA
Rabbi Debra Newman Kamin, Highland Park, IL
Rabbi Susan Kanoff, Philadelphia, PA
Rabbi Ken Kanter, Cincinnati, OH
Rabbi Patricia Karlin-Neumann, Palo Alto, CA
Rabbi Henry Jay Karp, Davenport, IA
Rabbi Mario Karpuj, Sandy Springs, GA
Rabbi Nancy Kasten, Dallas, TX
* Rabbi Jim Kaufman, Valley Village, CA
Rabbi David Kay, Orlando, Florida
Rabbi Benjamin G. Kelsen, Teaneck, NJ
Rabbi Jimmy Kessler, Galveston, TX
Rabbi Ralph P. Kingsley, Aventura, FL
Rabbi Andrew Klein, Barrington, RI
Rabbi Jason Klein, Baltimore, MD
* Rabbi Jonathan Klein, Los Angeles, CA
Rabbi Lori Klein, Capitola, CA
Rabbi Myriam Klotz, Bala Cynwyd, PA
Rabbi Norman Koch, New Milford, CT
Rabbi Debora Kohn, Berkeley, CA
Rabbi Stephanie D. Kolin, Boston, MA
Rabbi Neil E Kominsky, Brookline, MA
Rabbi Sandford Kopnick, Cincinnati, OH
Rabbi Ira Korinow, Haverhill, MA
Rabbi Allen Krause, Mission Viejo, CA
Rabbi Lawrence Kushner, San Francisco, CA
Rabbi Noa Kushner, San Anselmo, CA
Rabbi Steven Kushner, Montclair, NJ
Rabbi Harold Kudan, Glencoe, IL
Rabbi Judith Kummer, Roslindale, MA
* Rabbi Gail Labovitz, Los Angeles, CA
* Rabbi Susan Laemmle, Los Angeles, CA
Rabbi Lynne Landsberg, Washington, D.C.
Rabbi Shira Lander, Baltimore, MD
Rabbi Michael Adam Latz, Seattle, WA
Rabbi Alan LaPayover, Philadelphia, PA
Rabbi William Lebeau, New York, NY
Rabbi Morton Leifman, New York, NY
Rabbi Michael Lerner, San Francisco, CA
Rabbi Carol Levithan, New York, NY
Rabbi Charles S. Levi, Deerfield, IL
Rabbi Yael Levy, Philadelphia, PA
Rabbi Joel Levine, Palm Beach Gardens, FL
Rabbi Valerie Lieber, Brooklyn, NY
Rabbi Rebecca Lillian, Chicago, IL
Rabbi John A. Linder, Phoenix, AZ
Rabbi Steven Lowenstein, Glencoe, IL
Rabbi Jonathan Malamy, White Plains, NY
Rabbi Jonathan Z. Maltzman, North Bethesda, MD
Rabbi Howard Mandell, Virginia Beach, VA
Rabbi Janet Marder, Palo Alto, CA
Rabbi Susan Marks, Sarasota, FL
Rabbi Simeon Maslin, Philadelphia, PA
Rabbi J. Rolando Matalon, New York, NY
Rabbi Dennis N. Math, New York, NY
Rabbi Gary Mazo, Marstons Mills, MA
Rabbi Bernard Mehlman, Brookline, MA
Rabbi Shira Milgrom, White Plains, NY
Rabbi Bennett Miller, Monroe Township, NJ
Rabbi Joshua Minkin, Brooklyn, NY
Rabbi Victor Mirelman, River Forest, IL
Rabbi Michael A. Monson, West Orange, NJ
Rabbi Leon A. Morris, New York, NY
Rabbi Jay Henry Moses, New York, NY
* Rabbi Dan Moskovitz, Tarzana, CA
Rabbi Anat Moskowitz, Denver, CO
Rabbi Shelly Moss, Sun City, AZ
* Rabbi Perry Netter, Los Angeles, CA
Rabbi Avi S. Olitzky, St. Louis Park, MN
Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky, New York, NY
Rabbi Shaul Osadchey, Houston, TX
Rabbi Melinda Panken, Manalapan, NJ
* Rabbi Julie Pelc, Venice, CA
Rabbi Daniel Plotkin, St. Louis, MO
Rabbi Dan Polish, Poughkeepsie, NY
Rabbi Jeffrey Portman, Iowa City, IA
Rabbi Linda Potemken, Wynnewood, PA
Rabbi Amber Powers, Philadelphia, PA
Rabbi Dan Rabishaw, Northbrook, IL
* Rabbi Bruce Raff, Woodland Hills, CA
Rabbi Avram I. Reisner, Baltimore, MD
Rabbi Michael Remson, Kenosha, WI
Rabbi Dorothy A. Richman, Berkeley, CA
Rabbi Yair Robinson, Holland, PA
Rabbi Liz Rolle, Stamford, CT
Rabbi Norman Roman, West Bloomfield, MI
Rabbi Jack Romberg, Tallahassee, FL
Rabbi Carnie Shalom Rose, Creve Coeur, MO
Rabbi David Rosenn, New York, NY
Rabbi Jennie Rosenn, New York, NY
Rabbi Donald B. Rossoff, Morristown, NJ
Rabbi Dennis S. Ross, Worcester, MA
Rabbi Gloria Rubin, Oakland, NJ
Rabbi Sarah Niebuhr Rubin, Keene, NH
* Rabbi JB Sacks-Rosen, Los Angeles, CA
Rabbi Selig Salkowitz, Fair Lawn, NJ
Rabbi Joanna Samuels, New York, NY
Rabbi David Sandmel, Chicago, IL
Rabbi Marty Scharf, Scottsdale, AZ
Rabbi Phil Schechter, Stamford CT
Rabbi Leonard A. Schoolman, New York, NY
Rabbi Bob Schreibman, Lincolnshire, IL
Rabbi Barry Schwartz, Cherry Hill, NJ
Rabbi Allen Secher, Whitefish, MA
Rabbi Ron Segal, Atlanta, GA
Rabbi Gerry Serotta, Chevy Chase, MD
Rabbi Ike Serotta, Deerfield, IL
Rabbi Mark Dov Shapiro, Longmeadow, MA
Rabbi Mark S. Shapiro, Glenview, IL
Rabbi Richard J. Shapiro, Port Washington, NY
Rabbi Roxanne Shapiro, Milwaukee, WI
Rabbi Leonard Sharzer, New York, NY
* Rabbi John Sherwood, Oxnard, CA
Rabbi Howard Siegel, Houston, TX
Rabbi Howard Singer, Hinsdale, MA
Rabbi Jonathan Singer, Seattle, WA
* Rabbi Suzanne Singer, Los Angeles, CA
Rabbi Eric J. Siroka, South Bend, IN
Rabbi Eleanor Smith, Evanston, IL
Rabbi David Sofian, Dayton, OH
* Rabbi Ruth Sohn, Los Angeles, CA
Rabbi Myra Soifer, Reno, NV
Rabbi Felicia L. Sol, New York, NY
Rabbi Rav Soloff, Lansdale, PA
Rabbi Eric M. Solomon, Raleigh, NC
Rabbi Jennifer R. Solomon, Raleigh, NC
Rabbi Marla Spanjer, Fort Wayne, IN
Rabbi Bernard Spielman, Boynton Beach, FL
Rabbi Judy Spicehandler, Glencoe, IL
Rabbi Reena Spicehandler, Philadelphia, PA
Rabbi David Spitz, Vernon Hills, IL
Rabbi Moishe Steigmann, Mamaroneck, NY
Rabbi Margot Stein, Philadelphia, PA
* Rabbi Ron Stern, Los Angeles, CA
Rabbi Jeffrey Stiffman, St. Louis, MO
Rabbi Kurt Stone, Coral Springs, FL
Rabbi Elliot Strom, Yardley, PA
Rabbi Joshua Strom, Brooklyn, NY
Rabbi Shira Stutman, Philadelphia, PA
Rabbi Alvin M. Sugarman, Atlanta, GA
Rabbi Brooks Susman, Freehold, NJ
Rabbi Karen Sussan
Rabbi Susan Talve, St. Louis, MO
Rabbi Laurie Hahn Tapper, Redwood City, CA
Rabbi Joshua S. Taub, St. Louis, MO
Rabbi Michael Tayvah, Portland, OR
Rabbi Jeffrey M. Marker, Brooklyn, NY
Rabbi Abby Treu, New York, NY
Rabbi Leonard B. Troupp, Melville, NY
Rabbi Annie Tucker, Princeton, NJ
Rabbi Brian Walt, West Tisbury, MA
Rabbi Gerry Walter, Cincinnati, OH
Rabbi Andrew Warmflash, Hewlett, NY
Rabbi Pamela Wax, Hartsdale, NY
Rabbi Joshua Waxman, Fort Washington, PA
Rabbi Michael Weinberg, Evanston, IL
Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg, Amherst, MA
Rabbi Martin Weiner, San Francisco, CA
Rabbi David M. Weis, Northfield, NJ
Rabbi Simkha Y. Weintraub, Brooklyn, NY
Rabbi Binah Wing Rockford, IL
Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf, Chicago, IL
Rabbi Leo R. Wolkow, Homewood, IL
Rabbi Stanley Yedwab, Redmond, WA
Rabbi Ira Youdovin, Chicago, IL
Rabbi Sara Zacharia, Newton Centre, MA
Rabbi Joel H Zaiman, Baltimore, MD
Rabbi Mary L. Zamore, Westfield, NJ
Rabbi Deborah Zecher, Great Barrington, MA
Rabbi Elaine Zecher, Newton, MA
Rabbi Michael Zedek, Chicago, IL
Rabbi Daniel G. Zemel, Washington, DC
Rabbi Brian Zimmerman, Dallas, TX
Rabbi David Zucker, Aurora, CO
Rabbi Josh Zweiback, Los Altos, CA
A list of ”useful idiots” – it’s like taking out an ad saying you’re not very bright.
Many Reform and some ‘other’ Rabbis in this day and age, with the ‘success’ of assimilation and the latent fears of growing anti-Semitism centered around Israel’s existence are like a leaf that begs the wind to blow against it, so that it might fall already. Many Jews ask their hosts for permission to supplicate. Harsh but true. They want to make it perfectly clear, as Nixon might say, that they have no dual loyalties and that Israel is a chip on the table, to be taken off at the first scent of threat.
If I label pork “kosher,” does it become kosher? If I label myself rabbi does it make me a rabbi?
There is a standard for what is properly a rabbi just as there is a standard for what is properly kosher.
Judaism is a discriminating and exclusive faith rooted fundamentally in the distinction between the holy and the profane. The “rabbis” listed above represent a confusion of the two.
There is no confusion David. The above list is entirely treif.
I signed on as a member of Rabbis for Obama. I did NOT ever join nor endorse J Street.
For those of us who follow US Jewish politics, some of these names are predictable. But others are like stabs to the heart, to me. People I respected, people I didn’t think would fall that low. I’m not going to name names. It’s just sickening. My only consolation is speculating how many of them are thinking they made a mistake. The stone leftists, no. Everyone else, maybe.
When you examine the Jewish Diaspora beginning in the 8th century BC, one puzzles over the persecution of the Jews by most of the world that still takes place to this day. Thats the question, isn’t it? Why?
A classmate of mine asked 3rd grade Sunday school teacher that same question many years ago, why us?
And now with John Hagee possibly cutting funding to Im Tirzu the left is declaring war against Israel as a Jewish State
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