A Tale of Two Rabbis
September 4, 2012 By Ben Shapiro Comments (111)
Meet Lynn Gottleib. She calls herself a rabbi, and she’s at the top of President Obama’s “Rabbis for Obama” group – another cynical attempt by the Obama campaign to pretend that they have support from the religious Jewish community. Only one problem: Gottlieb is an anti-Israel radical who bears nothing but hatred for traditional Judaism. She’s supped with Iran’s genocidal president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and worked with Jewish Voice for Peace, a front group for Israel-haters. She has urged that America boycott, divest, and sanction Israel.
Gottlieb sounds a good deal like President Obama when it comes to her pie-in-the-sky view of Iranian nuclear weapons: “We’ve been living with a nuclear Israel which used conventional weapons on people. We’ve been living with nuclear India, with nuclear Pakistan, nuclear United States. Do we want to live with any government having nuclear power? I don’t think so. I personally do not want to live in a world with nuclear weapons, period. It’s unfortunate that we have been valuing militarism and war over diplomacy and peacemaking. It’s a choice, a human choice. War is not inevitable. It is a choice. Are we doing everything we can to prevent war? I would like to see all our politicians act differently in this regard.”
And she’s insane when it comes to American Christian support for Israel, buying into every false stereotype about the rationale for that support. “I signed on to be a rabbi for Obama,” she recently wrote on her Facebook page. “There are no other clergy groups, such as Imams or Priests for Obama. Really, what Jewish person wants to vote for a (Christian Zionist) guy who believes all Jews should move to Israel so that we can all finally convert and bring the end of time and go to heaven or be burned up in the apocalypse?”
What exactly is she talking about? Nobody really knows, since nobody has expressed that opinion. But it helps her sleep at night while backing a man who hates Israel.
The question isn’t why Gottlieb would support Obama, though. It’s why the Democrats are so comfortable with an anti-Israel extremist like Gottlieb. The answer is clear: she’s one of the few “rabbis” they could find who would buy into their own anti-Israel agenda.
Now take a look at the Republican Party.
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Filed Under: Daily Mailer, FrontPage Tagged With: boycott, Election, Iran, Israel, Lynn Gottleib, Obama,Pakistan, rabbi
About Ben Shapiro
Ben Shapiro is an attorney and writer and a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, and author of the new book “Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How The Left Took Over Your TV” from Broadside Books, an imprint of HarperCollins.
Mr. Shapiro asks which rabbi sounds more authentically Jewish. In reality, Rabbi Soloveichik sounds like like an authentically Jewish rabbi from the 1800s and Rabbi Gottlieb sounds like an authentically Jewish rabbi from the 1900s. Mr. Shapiro, who has not been in the modern era very long, appears to be yearning, as Muslim Fundamentalists do, for a much older time. He also asks "What exactly is she talking about? Nobody really knows, since nobody has expressed that [apocalyptic zionist] opinion." Incorrect. It is espoused by Pat Robertson and held by Evangelicals at large.
David· 8 weeks ago
Gottlieb would be the first in line to help the nazis lead Jews to their death. It is one thing to favor peace over war, but another to be a reckless pacifist bent on destroying Israel. Read more here:
http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/110184/talking-wi...
http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/110184/talking-wi...
saltbeef_bagel· 8 weeks ago
I love watching Liberal Jews tie themselves in knots trying reconcile the left's open Jew hatred with their own continued existance.
The problem with Jewish liberals is that their politics are stuck in the 1940′s and 50′s.
The enemies of Jews are no longer the devout Christians and the guys in pickup trucks with guns and confederate flags. The antisemites are coming from the very people Jewish liberals identify and associate with.
They are the supposed “enlightened” acedemics from Harvard and Berkley etc. And in the newsrooms of the NY Times and the networks.
These forces attack and demonize Jews and delegitimize the Jewish right to self-determination under the guise of “criticism” of Israel, but it still amount to the same thing as it did in the 1930s
My opinion! "I prefer a powerful and proud Jewish State that is hated by the entire world than to be known as sad *******s from Auschwitz that is loved by one and all"
The problem with Jewish liberals is that their politics are stuck in the 1940′s and 50′s.
The enemies of Jews are no longer the devout Christians and the guys in pickup trucks with guns and confederate flags. The antisemites are coming from the very people Jewish liberals identify and associate with.
They are the supposed “enlightened” acedemics from Harvard and Berkley etc. And in the newsrooms of the NY Times and the networks.
These forces attack and demonize Jews and delegitimize the Jewish right to self-determination under the guise of “criticism” of Israel, but it still amount to the same thing as it did in the 1930s
My opinion! "I prefer a powerful and proud Jewish State that is hated by the entire world than to be known as sad *******s from Auschwitz that is loved by one and all"
oldtimer· 8 weeks ago
Liberal Jews, Nazi collaborators, same mold.
Norman Berdichevsky· 8 weeks ago
For a realistic but depressing analysis and history of the anachronistic American Jewish affection for the Democrat Party, see my book The Left is Seldom Right (New English Review, Press, 2011). A majority of Jewish voters are either unconcerned with the increasingly low moral image of the Party’s politicians and candidates and party hacks (John Edwards, David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, Elliot Spitzer, Anthony Wiener, Richard Blumenthal). Collectively these six, five of whom are Jews, represent the worst in American politics. The defection of the man so many Jews were formerly so proud of, Senator Joe Lieberman (when he was nominated as the Vice-Presidential candidate of the party), has apparently not bothered them or caused them to rethink. Both Lieberman and former Democratic governor/senator of Georgia, Zell Miller told the party faithful in 2008 the same message when they supported George Bush and John McCain - the Democratic Party is a national party no longer! For many Jews, still in a time warp of the 1930s, the message is only slowly beginning to penetrate.
jacob· 8 weeks ago
To me, the American Jews position on the Democrap Party was given to me by a lady neighbor in her 90's
but with a mind as sharp as a scalpel.
I asked her then who was she going to vote for in the coming presidential election and she answered me
OBAMA OF COURSE...! ! !
I asked her what did she know about the man and she answered me she didn't have to know anything
about him, as long as he was her political party's choice...
I asked her then what is her party's presidential choice would have been a jackass and she answered me
she would still vote for the jackass.....
Needless to say, I rested my case...
And this is the same criteria which, according to polls, will make 60% of them to still reelect him...
Now,what is it with American Jews and the Democrap Party, which makes Republican Jews as scarce
as hen's teeth...??????
Would it be that, like German Jews before them, were first Germans and then perhaps...Jews ????
Well, allow me to tell them that history has the fatal tendency to repeat itself and that the pendulum will
swing back at one time or another and then I would love to see (if still alive by then) how a Hitler copycat
but more likely MUSLIM will deal with them
but with a mind as sharp as a scalpel.
I asked her then who was she going to vote for in the coming presidential election and she answered me
OBAMA OF COURSE...! ! !
I asked her what did she know about the man and she answered me she didn't have to know anything
about him, as long as he was her political party's choice...
I asked her then what is her party's presidential choice would have been a jackass and she answered me
she would still vote for the jackass.....
Needless to say, I rested my case...
And this is the same criteria which, according to polls, will make 60% of them to still reelect him...
Now,what is it with American Jews and the Democrap Party, which makes Republican Jews as scarce
as hen's teeth...??????
Would it be that, like German Jews before them, were first Germans and then perhaps...Jews ????
Well, allow me to tell them that history has the fatal tendency to repeat itself and that the pendulum will
swing back at one time or another and then I would love to see (if still alive by then) how a Hitler copycat
but more likely MUSLIM will deal with them
Ar'nun· 8 weeks ago
It's sad that there are so many people out there that pretend to be Jews when convienient. It's even sadder that some of them pretend to be Rabbis.
Miss Gottlieb is the lowest form of human existance. She is a traitor to her people and an embarassment to Jews around the world.
Miss Gottlieb is the lowest form of human existance. She is a traitor to her people and an embarassment to Jews around the world.
Stern· 8 weeks ago
To all those who attempt to reason with schlomotion: don't bother. You cannot reason with the unreasonable, as he keeps proving again and again.
Carol· 8 weeks ago
These Jews are shills for the Dems...no difference. And the Reform Movement is the Democrat Party...with holidays!!
Is it now the practice of Judaism to have woman rabbis? I didn't think that was the case. I am saddened by this if it's true. The Jews have had such a long history of dealing effectively with religious doctrine.
Attila The Hun· 8 weeks ago
Ms. Gottlieb is a rabbi, as much as I'm an astronaut. Give a break she is nothing more than imposter, pretending to be not only Jewish also a rabbi. Unfortunately Jewish history is full of people like Ms. Gottlieb who ended up in trash bin of history.
I have been working to try to get the Republican Jewish Coalition to create rabbis for Romney. I think we give the wrong impression to the public when there are rabbis for Obama and none for Romney. I don't represent an organization and my views are personal..
Some of those who have signed on with Rabbis for Obama have indicated that they do not object to the State of Israel but to Israel’s occupation of “Palestinian land.” When will they learn? Every time Israel has ceded territory, that territory has been turned into a base from which to attack her-Gaza, South Lebanon, and now Sinai. Nothing that Israel surrenders will bring peace. On the contrary, it will facilitate her enemies destructive promises. It was Albert Einstein who once defined insanity as doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results.
RABBI DR. BERNHARD Rosenberg
Some of those who have signed on with Rabbis for Obama have indicated that they do not object to the State of Israel but to Israel’s occupation of “Palestinian land.” When will they learn? Every time Israel has ceded territory, that territory has been turned into a base from which to attack her-Gaza, South Lebanon, and now Sinai. Nothing that Israel surrenders will bring peace. On the contrary, it will facilitate her enemies destructive promises. It was Albert Einstein who once defined insanity as doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results.
RABBI DR. BERNHARD Rosenberg
Moishe Pupick· 8 weeks ago
Tuesday, Septembe 04, 2012 common era
"Rabbi" Gottlieb doesn't know as much Torah as the average high school Yeshiva student. She, along with other Jews who support Barack Husein Obama have only an ethnic identity with being Jewish, a mere veneer.
Reform Judaism was concocted in dear old Deutschland to reduce or even eliminate antisemitism by making Jewish religious practice more like Protestant Christianity. . . .
"Rabbi" Gottlieb doesn't know as much Torah as the average high school Yeshiva student. She, along with other Jews who support Barack Husein Obama have only an ethnic identity with being Jewish, a mere veneer.
Reform Judaism was concocted in dear old Deutschland to reduce or even eliminate antisemitism by making Jewish religious practice more like Protestant Christianity. . . .
Silverfinger· 8 weeks ago
Gottleib - another Jew with a German name; " ash can nazis ".
Here is the Democrat 2012 Platform re: Israel.
http://freebeacon.com/pro-israel-language-removed...
Here is the Democrat 2012 Platform re: Israel.
http://freebeacon.com/pro-israel-language-removed...
I have long maintained on this site that the only Jews who support Obama or espouse liberalism are the highly- educated, open-minded, and good-looking ones.
Rabbi Soloveichik is the real thing. Rabbi Gottlieb is the typical leftist Jew who believes that the Torah has been replaced by the Democratic party's political platform. Any conflict between the Torah and the Democratic party is resolved in favor of the political party, not G-d.
Christians support Israel for a numerous reasons. It is simplistic, and judgmental, to believe that they only do so for "apocalyptic" reasons. It requires little original thought to buy into the knee-jerk reactions that liberal Jews have against the sister religion of Christianity.
Only when liberal Jews are more fearful of Iran than Pat Robertson will we ever know they have opened their eyes.
Christians support Israel for a numerous reasons. It is simplistic, and judgmental, to believe that they only do so for "apocalyptic" reasons. It requires little original thought to buy into the knee-jerk reactions that liberal Jews have against the sister religion of Christianity.
Only when liberal Jews are more fearful of Iran than Pat Robertson will we ever know they have opened their eyes.
Rothschild· 8 weeks ago
I am not Jewish; I'm a Catholic Jew, so I frankly do not know how to respond to the article.
When, they say she is not a traditional Jew, is it that she is not a pre-exile Jew?..I don't think so, so they both appear to be traditional Jews, inexperienced in American politics.
Does Judaism have ecumenical rabbis? Are they political? Are they critical of the pre-exile form of Judaism?
Post exiles Jews, it would seem could identify with the Democrats, at least the MLK black voter type of Democrat.. and in light of the fact that Judaism does not have a clue, nor does it want to what pacifism is, it is highly likely a traditional Jew, but perhaps has some ritualistic customs, during services, that would appeal to American Jews.
When, they say she is not a traditional Jew, is it that she is not a pre-exile Jew?..I don't think so, so they both appear to be traditional Jews, inexperienced in American politics.
Does Judaism have ecumenical rabbis? Are they political? Are they critical of the pre-exile form of Judaism?
Post exiles Jews, it would seem could identify with the Democrats, at least the MLK black voter type of Democrat.. and in light of the fact that Judaism does not have a clue, nor does it want to what pacifism is, it is highly likely a traditional Jew, but perhaps has some ritualistic customs, during services, that would appeal to American Jews.
Alan Leventhal· 7 weeks ago
(PART ONE)Fortunately, you do not represent the majority of Jews who will, like myself, happily vote for Obama. I am a very proud Jew and feel blessed to have been born into such an extraordinary faith. I regard people like you to be extreme rightwingers who have gone into a totally delusional and immoral state of mind. While it doesn't look like Romney has any chance of being our next president, I know that one of his first acts would be to give the extremist leaders in Israel the green light to bomb Iran. I guess that would make you happy, a lot like Bushes' catastrophic and unGodly act of destroying Iraq, except this maniac act would damage Israel, physically and morally.
Alan Leventhal· 7 weeks ago
(PART TWO)I really wonder about you people. You profess to believing the basic tenets and glories of Judaism, yet you have aligned yourselves with the most backward elements in our country. Israelis will eventually solve their problems and work out a way to live surrounded by Moslems, simply because they have no choice, and, most importantly, because they are Jews. One the other hand, like your fundamentalist Christian friends, you are in a warmongering Armageddon mode which is why most Jews will not vote for Republicans this year, or any year. And Obama, as all the major Israeli security leaders have attested, is the strongest ally Israel had in years. You people know this and yet you persist in making a mockery of your Judaism by supporting billionaire fools who put their 'love' of Israel before humanity. I am truly ashamed of you.
The typical liberal Jewish leftist is usually in full moral outrage mode when you disagree with their position. They call you "delusional" and "extreme" when it is really a self description. Psychologists call it 'projection.'
Leftism/collectivism is the political ideology of Nazism, Fascism, and Communism/Socialism. They put the state above the individual. They believe everyone should subordinate their will to the party or "Fatherland." We believe that individual rights come before state rights.
Any true Jew will fight statism and collectivism with everything in their power: Romney instead of Obama.
Leftism/collectivism is the political ideology of Nazism, Fascism, and Communism/Socialism. They put the state above the individual. They believe everyone should subordinate their will to the party or "Fatherland." We believe that individual rights come before state rights.
Any true Jew will fight statism and collectivism with everything in their power: Romney instead of Obama.
Alan Leventhal· 7 weeks ago
I'm amazed that you took down the comments I made an hour or so ago. I guess Mr. Horowitz doesn't want any dissenting opinions from your group think, which is unfortunate because this November you're going to have to face reality.
Cat K· 7 weeks ago
Mr Rothschild, with all due respect for your interest in your Jewish relatives and your research into history - may I gently suggest that you befriend some Jews who follow their faith. I also suggest you attend some synagogue services and meet with a few rabbis. You are spouting history and focusing on divisions. What is Jewish is not found there. There is the spiritual - the Torah, there is am amazing sense of tradition and peoplehood frequently against great adversity . There is music , the foods, the smiling faces of children..... You seem to be completely missing the beauty and the humanity.
Kufar Dawg· 7 weeks ago
It's always strange to me how libtards and lieberals prefer to admire islamofascism from afar, rather that from close up, as in from within an islamofascist state looking out.
Maybe Lynn Gottleib would be happier with a congregation in Iran -- where she could enjoy the persecution non-muslims receive at the hands of islamofascists first-hand.
Maybe Lynn Gottleib would be happier with a congregation in Iran -- where she could enjoy the persecution non-muslims receive at the hands of islamofascists first-hand.
IT IS TIME TO WAKE UP AND REALIZE WHAT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND ITS PLATFORM ATTEMPTED TO DO. I hope the 600 rabbis plus are e mailing and on the telephones to their democratic representatives. The so called hidden rabbis for Romney have been asked by me to send e mails and mass phone calls today. This is what Rabbis for Romney can accomplish without currently publishing a list . Yishar KOACH TO THE DEMOCRATIC Jewish LEADERSHIP IN CONGRESS AND ELSEWHERE FOR SPEAKING UP AND FIGHTING. RABBI DR. BERNHARD ROSENBERG
WHAT IS IT THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA DOES NOT UNDERTSAND. ?Israel must defend itself against her enemies. I have formed rabbis for ROMNEY. RABBI DR. BERNHARD ROSENBERG
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