Rabbi Who Condemned Pamela Geller Talk Was a Speaker at a Reviving the Islamic Spirit Confab Which Featured Real Hate-Speakers
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Rabbi Who Condemned Pamela Geller Talk Was a Speaker at a Reviving the Islamic Spirit Confab Which Featured Real Hate-Speakers.HT: Scaramouchee.
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The hypocrisy of some "interfaithy" types knows no bounds. Take the head of the Toronto Board of Rabbis, for instance. Baruch Fryman-Kohl, senior rabbi at Beth Tzedec Congregation, signed his name to the poisonous little screed condemning Pamela Geller's appearance in Toronto. Rabbi F-K, who's mad for interfaithiness, was concerned that Ms. Geller's heated, "hateful" words might have a negative impact on all the frenetic "bridge-building" he and his cronies have been conducting over the years.
So devoted to the ongoing construction is the good rabbi that he even spoke at one of those Reviving the Islamic Spirit thingys. Back in '05, he addressed the throng (that year's theme: Islamic Civilization), telling them of the "common issues facing Jews and Muslims in Western societies." (Yeah, the Jews face Muslims' Zionhass and jihad proclivities while Muslims face non-existent "backlashes" and "Islamophobia": not exactly even-steven, is it Baruch?). He added that
We are also dealing with the essential issues of how do we, as minorities, remain true to our religious and spiritual traditions in societies which are largely secular or Christian such as in Europe, Canada and the United States," he said.
And all of us, Muslims and Jews, are dealing with these kinds of issues.
If you say so, rabbi.
Anyhoo, the roster of speakers that year including such paragons of lovingkindness as:
As my late Bubby, a very wise women who knew a thing or two about Jew-hate having escaped the second pogrom in Kishinev, might have said: feh!
- Dr. Zakir Naik. Dr. Naik thinks death is the appropriate punishment for apostasy, is a fan of Osama bin Laden, and is convinced that George W. Bush was behind the 9/11 attacks.
- Iman Zaid Shakir. The imam would like to see America become a Muslim country and believes that "the US war machine is the single greatest threat to world peace."
- Dr. Tareq Suwaidan. According to his Wiki entry,
In other words, the rabbi who condemns Pamela Geller's speech for being inflammatory and hateful (which it is not) had no problem appearing on the same stage as these hate-speakers.In an April 2012 interview for Al-Quds, a TV station affiliated with Hamas, he claimed that since politicians were controlled by money and the media which are controlled by the Jews, only "armed resistance" and not Western aid or Western popular sympathy could change the situation in Palestine and Jerusalem. He also said in the interview that the most dangerous thing facing Muslims is the Jews calling them "the greatest enemy." [24] Al-Suwaidan subsequently denied charges of anti-semitism stating "We are not against the Jews, let this be very clear." He alleged that the anti-Semitic comments were based on a report by MEMRI , which he called a "Zionist organization." [25]
As my late Bubby, a very wise women who knew a thing or two about Jew-hate having escaped the second pogrom in Kishinev, might have said: feh!
Rabbi Baruch Frydman-Kohl has been senior rabbi of Beth Tzedec Congregation since 1993. The focus of his rabbinate has been a commitment to family education and life-long learning.
In addition to his congregational responsibilities, Rabbi Frydman-Kohl has been deeply involved in work with the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, the Rabbinic Forum of Keren Hayesod and the Rabbinic Cabinets of the United Jewish Communities and the State of Israel Bonds. In 2000 he was honoured by the United Jewish Communities with their Rabbinical Award. He has also been involved with Mazon Canada and the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews. Within the Conservative Movement, he is a member of the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly, served on its Executive and Administrative committees and is past President of two of its regions. He serves on the Chancellor's Rabbinic Cabinet of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Before coming to Toronto, Rav Baruch served Congregation Ohav Shalom in Albany, New York, for seventeen years
In June 1992, the Rabbi was awarded a Coolidge Fellowship by the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life to pursue research in an inter-faith community at the Episcopal Divinity School at Harvard University. In 2003 he was awarded the degree of a Doctor of Divinity. In 2004 he received his doctorate in Jewish Philosophy from the Jewish Theological Seminary and was named Senior Rabbinic Fellow of the Shalom Hartman Institute of Jerusalem. 77 Chiltern Hill Road
TorontoIn addition to his congregational responsibilities, Rabbi Frydman-Kohl has been deeply involved in work with the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, the Rabbinic Forum of Keren Hayesod and the Rabbinic Cabinets of the United Jewish Communities and the State of Israel Bonds. In 2000 he was honoured by the United Jewish Communities with their Rabbinical Award. He has also been involved with Mazon Canada and the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews. Within the Conservative Movement, he is a member of the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly, served on its Executive and Administrative committees and is past President of two of its regions. He serves on the Chancellor's Rabbinic Cabinet of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Before coming to Toronto, Rav Baruch served Congregation Ohav Shalom in Albany, New York, for seventeen years
In June 1992, the Rabbi was awarded a Coolidge Fellowship by the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life to pursue research in an inter-faith community at the Episcopal Divinity School at Harvard University. In 2003 he was awarded the degree of a Doctor of Divinity. In 2004 he received his doctorate in Jewish Philosophy from the Jewish Theological Seminary and was named Senior Rabbinic Fellow of the Shalom Hartman Institute of Jerusalem. 77 Chiltern Hill Road
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3 comments:
The "Episcopal Divinity School @ Harvard is also known as The Harvard Divinty School which
via JihadWatch.org, 2004 ". . .one cannot, at Harvard, as it stands now, either at Harvard Divinity School, or at Harvard Law School, take a course that will teach the real tenets of Islam, and will use the scholarship not of apologists but of serious Orientalists -- Margoliouth, Schacht, Snouck Hurgronje, Dufourcq, and a few dozen others. One cannot learn, fully and truthfully, either about Jihad or about dhimmitude."
Diana Eck of Harvard University Boston is part of the Islamic world.
More from Hugh Fitzgerald at the above link: ". . . the Divinity School under Graham, or for that matter at the Law School, where Islamic matters are firmly in the grip of those who owe their Muslim and Arab donors something, and whose mental set is unlikely to be affected by a sudden desire to really learn about what Islam teaches its adherents, or how , over 1350 years, Muslim conquerors have treated the non-Muslims they conquered. "
It is under the guidance of this "educational" establishment, that meaningless awards for destructive accomplishments like the above mentioned " Coolidge Fellowship " awarded to "Rabbi" Baruch Frydman-Kohl our society gets sucker punched repeatedly.
Thanks for the additional info Anonymous. :)
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