15 Responses

1. Calling a lesbian clergywoman to leads a Park Slope all inclusive reform temple a “Jewish leader” is a grave error by WPIX. True Jewish leaders have been silent on this issue because it doesn’t directly effect our community.

   Let her peak out against the scourge of intermarriage propagated by her reform clergy.

2. Just yesterday I heard a wonderful statement from the Lubavitcher Rebbe Zt”l. It went like this: A person that is sick (in Yiddishkeit) and thinks he’s healthy (because he is proud and happy the way he is) needs even a bigger Refuah. These people are sick liberal Jews. These people think that if we will stick up for the evil then they will spare us. Those people thought the same before the Holocaust when they snuck up to the Nazi’s adopted their philosophies and degraded the G-d fearing Jews. They are the same people who protest the Israelis in Israel with the Palestinians and form ‘pro-Israel’ lobbyist groups (such as J-street) to work against us. They are not new to our religion, they were around ever since the Eirev Rav in the Midair and are still amongst us. We should declare that they are not Jewish (in faith) and do not have anything in common with the Jewish religion and beliefs.

   As to the Mousque, I clearly believe that the freedom of religion act is important to us just as much as anyone else. We don’t want them to stop and restrict us from building Shuls wherever we wish. Let’s face it; it is us that were prosecuted all these years for practicing Toras Moshe. We, the Jews, suffered and were discriminated against till the declaration of independence was signed with us in mind. As President Washington wrote in a letter to Touro Synagogue, all religions shall have the right to practice openly. We need tolerance of religion and we must pray for it to stay fully in effect.

   However, building an Islamic cultural center at ground zero isn’t just religions tolerance. We have an Imam, that partially blamed the US for 9/11 just days later ‘for its political views’, at the helm of this construction. This wouldn’t be just another Mosque, rather a gigantic 100 million dollar center (which even asked for landmark protection) right where thousands of people were killed by Muslims who don’t regret their act. This seems like a memorial built for the terrorists rather than a ‘bridge’. Besides having many questions on where they will be getting the funding and why the second biggest Mousque must be built at this location, this is a group oblivious to terrorists (refusing to call Hamas a terror group) and therefore harboring terrorist and perhaps preaching terrorism.

3. blind fools

4. this is ridiculous absurd who does this women think she is. let her take her opinion to somewhere else this mosque building is a disgrace to the loved ones lost on 9/11.

5. unfortunately, anyone who hangs a shingle on their front lawn can call themselves a jewish leader. I still remember back in the 80s when woody allen was quoted on some issue as a leading jewish figure.

6. This is a community center that has a room being built for prayers. Its a few blocks from WTC site. As long as its not being funded from terrorists, I don’t understand how anyone thinks its legal to oppose this.

   And Yaakov Doe, if Jews sit silently while people trample on the rights of other religions, ours is going to be next.

7. That clergywoman doesn’t realize but when the Muslims get the chance to cholila institute Sharia law, she will be hanging from the highest flagpole in the city. They kill all of those that practice a certain type of abomination.

8. oich mir ah ‘jewish leaders’

9. i am surprised at you people in the office of yeshiva world. do you read what you write or you just print news without thinking? how can you say that a reform rabbi is jewish and that jews support the building of a mosque? really what is the matter with you????

10. As Mr. 80 said, we feel sorry for the blind fools.

    What I find most ironic is that the “Cordoba” movement, which is supposed to represent the “tolerant” side of Islam, shares its name with the city where the Rambam born and lived for 13 years before being forced into exile by Muslims.

    Is that the most tolerant example that their culture can lay claim to?

11. SJSinNYC(#6) – Well said; you are on the money. But you are preaching to an audience most of whom reflect Yaakov Doe’s sentiment that anyone holding an opinion at odds with the majority view here ius “sick.”

    It seems pretty bleak to me – Today, in order to be “authentically frum” one cannot be a humanist – one need not necessarily be “anti-humanist” – but at best one can have merely a mildly hostile indifference to any “other” group, never grasping parallels such as that you so eloquently express.

12. Moshe3 (#9)- I’m surprised at you – the Reform Rabbi is obviously a Jew, if born to a Jewish mother, as are members of her flock – it’s the “ism” she represents and the rabbinical title with which we should take issue . . . intelligently and gently.

13. There is nothing Jewish about those fools!

14. The proposed Cordoba Center is two blocks from the World Trade Center site, and two blocks from an actual mosque that has been there since before the World Trade Center was built. Do the opponents want to get rid of that mosque, too? On what grounds?

    There have been Muslim services in the Pentagon since shortly after 9/11/2001. IN the Pentagon, which was actually attacked. Do the opponents of the Cordoba Center want to ban those, too? On what grounds?

    Stopping the Cordoba Center will be a great victory for the anti-Semites who constantly abuse local zoning and preservation laws in their attempts to stop shuls and yeshivot from building and expanding. Fortunately real leaders like Mayor Bloomberg realize that when a group buys property it should not be denied its right to develop the property in accordance with local zoning laws because it is part of an unpopular group. I’m depressed that so few in the Orthodox community have not realized this; WE have been the unpopular group so often.

15. SJS, consider the source. Where is 100 million dollars coming from? Are the backers the kind of imams who talk pretty to mainstream press and speak differently in their mama lashon?

    I like Dennis Miller’s line: if you want to show true tolerance build a Jewish temple there and call it the Mosqueowitz.

    Looking at the greater picture, yeah, I can see it Dr. Hall’s way, but I also see how distasteful this is to the families.