SOME RABBIS ARE STILL JEWISH
April 5, 2008 at 10:38 am (Civil Rights, DesertPeace Editorial, Ignorance,
Israel, Palestine,
Racism)
New York Orthodox Rabbi Marc Schneier. (Nir Kafri)
Yesterday, one of Israel’s most prominent religious leaders issued another
statement which
belongs in the cesspool of hatred. It was the same rabbi that has been
darkening the name of
the Jewish people with his ‘rulings’ and opinions regarding the current
situation in the region.
Mordecai Eliyahu, a former chief rabbi declared that the “life of one
ye****va boy worth more
than 1,000 Arabs“. That was the theme of his speech at a memorial ceremony
marking 30 days
since the attack at a Jerusalem Ye****va. Rather than teach tolerance and
understanding, he
continues to preach hatred and destruction.
THIS IS NOT THE JEWISH WAY!
BUT….. on the other side of the Big Sea another rabbi, also orthodox,
shows us that some still
believe in the Torah as it was written and do practice it.
In the following re****t he speaks of the involvement of Jews in the
American Civil Rights
Movement…. it’s good to be reminded of this and it’s refre****ng to see
that at least one
American rabbi remembers those days….
Rabbi: Jews, more than anyone helped black Americans achieve equality
By Shlomo Shamir, HaAretz
American Orthodox Rabbi Marc Shneier on Friday spoke at a ceremony marking
40 years since the
assassination of U.S. Civil Rights leader Reverend Doctor Martin Luther
King Jr., and
championed American Jews’ sup****t of African Americans during the Civil
Rights struggle, saying
no community in the United States did more to sup****t Dr. King and the
struggle for equality
for African Americans.
Rabbi Shneier, an Orthodox Rabbi at two New York synagogues, was the only
Jewish leader who
took part in the ceremony in Memphis, held a short distance from the
Memphis motel where King
was mortally wounded by a sniper’s bullet while standing on a balcony.
Shneier said the event was an op****tunity to commemorate the “famous
historical alliance
between African Americans and Jews in the United States.”
Shneier has long championed greater ties between the communities, and
wrote the book “Shared
Dreams” together with Dr. King’s son Martin Luther King III on the subject
of the Jewish-Black
alliance in the United States.
Last August, Schneier made news when he joined with hip-hop impresario
Russell Simmons to
produce a short film to combat negative stereotypes of Muslims.
Several months earlier, Schneier and Simmons, the founder of Def Jam
records, produced a short
film on anti-Semitism which was shown in schools across the United States.
The film featured
appearances by rap stars such as Jay-Z, and was widely considered a
success.
Schneier and Simmons are co-presidents of the Foundation for Ethnic
Understanding, which works
to improve relations between Jews and other minorities in the United
States.
Since its founding in 1989, the foundation has been particularly
successful in improving
relations between American Jewish and black communities.
According to Schneier, the fund has since turned its focus to improving
relations between
American Jews and Hispanics.
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