by Bill Levinson

Do the Union for Reform Judaism’s leaders formulate extreme leftist positions at Yom Kippur soirees, at which they serve ham and cheese sandwiches along with bacon-wrapped scallops (kosher bacon, of course), while praying to images of Franklin Roosevelt, Ted Kennedy, and Michael Moore? There is definitely something very un-kosher about its latest religious fatwa, whose effect if not intention is to encourage Michael Moore’s “Minutemen” (the terrorists who are murdering our men and women in uniform).

March 12, 2007 – The Union for Reform Judaism’s Executive Committee today overwhelmingly adopted a resolution opposing the escalation in troops in the War in Iraq and calling on President Bush to set and announce a specific timetable for the phased withdrawal of troops.

“As the largest of the Jewish denominations in North America, we are aware of the weight of our voice,” said Robert Heller, chairman of the Union’s Board of Trustees. “Today’s decision was reached only after thoughtful deliberation and due consideration of the complex issues involved,” he said. “I do know that this Executive Committee acted in the best tradition of Reform Judaism, in keeping with our prophetic obligation to speak truth to power.”

Very good, Field Marshal Heller. We doubt that your knowledge of military history, if any, qualifies you or anyone else in the Union for Reform Judaism’s Executive Committee to understand the effects of calling for “a specific timetable for the phased withdrawal of troops.” Such a timetable would, as we have shown here in the past, tell Michael Moore’s Minutemen that all they have to do to win is to hold out, avoid defeat, and keep planting improvised explosive devices to put our men and women in uniform into wheelchairs and body bags.

This almost happened during the American Civil War, when the election of 1864 offered the Confederacy a possible “timetable for Billy Yank’s phased withdrawal.” A Confederate commander who recognized this deliberately sought to avoid a battle with General Sherman’s Union army until after the election. The Confederate officer knew that George McClellan was running against Abraham Lincoln on an anti-war platform. If McClellan won the election of 1864, his government was likely to make peace with the Confederacy. However, a Union victory would result in more confidence in Lincoln, and could give him the election. Jefferson Davis did not understand this, and he replaced the seemingly-hesitant officer with an aggressive general who promptly attacked Sherman and lost. Sherman won the battle, the election went to Abraham Lincoln, and the Confederacy lost the war and its independence.

The Union for Reform Judaism has therefore shown again that it is essentially MoveOn.org, the Democratic Underground, the Huffington Post, or the Daily Kos with Jewish holidays. In 2000, Eric Yoffie proved that he does not understand Hanukkah, which perhaps he thinks is the Jewish Christmas. Maybe Yoffie even puts latkes and chocolate coins around his Christmas tree, while proclaiming how Hanukkah celebrates peace on earth and good will toward men as opposed to a military victory that saved the Jewish religion. Yoffie, apparently in his capacity as the head of the 501(c)(3) tax-exempt Union of American Hebrew Congregations, made an effective endorsement of Al Gore at the Million Mom March rally in 2000.

Although 501(c)(3) organizations are not allowed to attempt to influence elections, UAHC leader Eric Yoffie exhorted his listeners, “we’re going to find out who’s getting NRA funds, and benefiting from NRA ads, and we’re going to vote for the other guy.” “The American people, I believe, are ready for a leader who will take on the fanatics and support sensible gun control.” Yoffie continued his unique interpretation of Judaism as follows. “Controlling guns is not only a political matter, it is a solemn religious obligation. Our gun-flooded society has turned weapons into idols, and the worship of idols must be recognized for what it is-blasphemy.”

Eric Yoffie’s “Torah” as a roll of toilet paper bearing the statement, “Controlling guns is not only a political matter, it is a solemn religious obligation.” “Although Torahs also come on rolls, they are not made from soft perforated paper, and they are also generally written in Hebrew.” Furthermore, real Torahs do not say anything about gun control, or about control of the weapons that existed when the Torah was written. Only Eric Yoffie’s “Torah” says anything about this, hence the music roll. (The cartoon is too wide to fit on this page, so the image is not presented.)

If Yoffie had been in charge of the Maccabees (Jews who rebelled against Macedonians who tried to make them convert to the Greek religion) we (Jews and Christians) would be worshipping genuine idols today. We think, in fact, that Battlestar Galactaca assumes that Yoffie got the Maccabees to agree with his ideas of weapon control (e.g. swords must be licensed and registered). Antiochus’ resulting victory therefore created an alternate history in which the Jewish faith ceased to exist, Jesus was therefore an idol worshipper like everyone else, and hence the Christian religion never existed either. This produced a spacegoing human civilization that still worships the Greek pantheon. But we digress.

It is quite justifiable to refer to the above music roll as Eric Yoffie’s “Torah,” because he is falsely claiming that Judaism has a “solemn religious obligation” to agitate for gun control. He might want to talk to the Jews who had to beg, borrow, and even steal guns with which to fight Arab genocidists in 1947-1948, and Resistance fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto, who were grateful to get their hands on any kind of firearms. He and his cohorts have now figured out that Judaism somehow requires them to undermine our country’s honor (i.e. credibility), even if it has to endanger our men and women in uniform to do it.

The National Jewish Democratic Council (aka National Judenrat Democratic Council), of course, has no trouble equating the URJ with Reform Judaism as a whole, as shown by the following (http://njdc.typepad.com/njdcs_blog/2007/03/why_is_the_repu.html)

“Why is the Republican Jewish Coalition Picking a Fight with Reform Jews? Republican leaders have shrunk to a new low — attacking the Reform movement because of the Union for Reform Judaism’s opposition to the Iraq war.” Well, I’m Reform Jewish, and I don’t think the RJC is picking a fight with me. Last I heard, in fact, I supplied RJC with information to use against the NJDC. (Specifically, NJDC’s whitewash of MoveOn.org’s sponsorship of anti-Semitic and other forms of hate speech.) So I don’t know which “Reform Jews” NJDC thinks the Republican Jewish Coalition is attacking, but I am certainly not among them.

Perhaps NJDC has joined URJ in trying to convert Reform Judaism into a poligion (political movement disguised as a religion), but we will not stand for this for a moment. We remind our readers that NJDC also played a central role in trying to whitewash anti-Semitic hate speech (plus anti-Catholic, anti-Evangelical, and racist hate speech) from its friends at MoveOn.org. (for details). In addition, NJDC, in its eagerness to attack Evangelical Christians or even damage Jewish-Christian relations, posted on its own blog repackaged and relabeled “Jew as Christian hater” propaganda that could have come straight from Nazi Germany. In general, the National Judenrat Democratic Council seems to promote anti-Christian bigotry at every opportunity.

Union for Reform Judaism = MoveOn.org with Jewish holidays.

Union of “American” “Hebrew” Congregations: double oxymoron.

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Related: War Against Islamo-fascism, Iraq

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