The Board of Directors, without dissent, passed the following resolution:

The Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas (JCRC) board of directors voted without dissent on October 18th to oppose the proposed amendment to the Minnesota Constitution (“marriage amendment”), which would recognize marriage only as a union between a man and a woman.

Why have they abandoned core Jewish family morality and halakha?

Polling data. Not Torah. Polling data.

Finally, it is worth noting that the JCRC strives to be a consensus-based organization that speaks to the values of the broader Minnesotan Jewish community.  Here, on the issue of gay marriage we know that according to a 2010 Pew Poll, 76% of American Jews favor marriage equality, which is more than any other religious group polled by Pew.  While we do not have polling data on the attitudes of Minnesotan Jews on this issue, the fact that the JCRC’s board of directors approved its resolution opposing the marriage amendment without dissent demonstrates that the attitudes of Minnesotan Jews are not substantially different than other American Jews.  For these reasons, the JCRC is proud to be one of the first 100 organizations and businesses to join Minnesotans United for Marriage, the official coalition standing up in united opposition to the marriage amendment.

Polling data. From one poll.

That’s right, polling data – not Torah, the foundation of Judaism – determined the policy of a Jewish communal organization.

Accordingly, as a matter of principle, the JCRC is opposed to the marriage amendment or any other law which is without a secular legislative purpose and has the primary effect of either advancing or inhibiting religion.  See Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602 (1971).  Additionally, because the JCRC agrees with the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Loving v. Virginia that “[m]arriage is one of the “basic civil rights of man,” fundamental to our very existence and survival…”

Maintaining the primacy and importance of stable monogamous two-parent male and female marriages and families serves a secular purpose: the continuance of our American culture and our Republic (based largely upon Jewish and Christian morality, even if you don’t want to admit it). The context in which Loving v. Virginia was decided was that marriage between a man and a woman is fundamental to our very existence and survival, because only a man and a woman are able to consummate a marriage, procreate, and raise the next generation. Any normal, rational person with common sense – in other words, someone who didn’t go to law school – can understand this objective truth.

The JCRC alleges they are:

Dedicated to protecting Jewish interests and promoting Jewish values.

Liars. The JCRC Board of Directors are obscurantists and intellectually dishonest. They are perpetrating a fraud.

Where were you when the anti-Semites, the left, the pro-jihadist Arabs were demonstrating in Loring Park when Jews in Israel defended themselves against missile attacks? When they were outside of AIPAC meetings intimidating Jews? Where were you when Hamas sympathizers were demonstrating on the steps of the Minnesota State Capitol? Where were you? Safely in your Board meetings discussing what? Diversity? Same sex marriage?

Halakha states definitively that a marriage can only be contracted between a man and a woman and that throughout the Torah, the definition of “man” and “wife” is “male” and “female” The Book of Vayikra, Parshas Acharei, specifies the types of behavior that is forbidden to Jews. Homosexuality is forbidden. Regardless of how the Rabbinical Authorities in Reconstructionist and Reform Judaism rule on the subject, or what polling data suggests, Torah stands as the final authority. Whether one is a pious Chasid, learned in Torah or a purely secular literalist, Judaism forbids ”same sex marriages”.

The JCRC has now joined with the anti-Semites who seek to destroy the Jews, our religion, and our culture. The Board is a disgrace, ein shonda far dey goyim, traitors to their own people.

How can I trust you to defend Jews who oppose your leftist political ideology? Your abandonment of the most basic Jewish family tradition which has sustained us through Greek Hellenism, Roman paganism, Christian oppression, Muslim dhimmitude, Nazi genocide, Ustashe slaughter, and Arab attacks – is a disgrace.

Don’t you know what happened to people who supported Proposition 8 in California, the demonstrations outside churches, the threats against peoples livelihoods, the church invasion in Michigan? What will you do when Jews and synagogues are attacked for their beliefs in Torah during the Minnesota Amendment fight, when GBLT radicals realize that it is Torah that contains Leviticus and Deuteronomy? What will you do then? How will you defend us? What credibility will you have left? How could you legitimately defend us, now that you have clearly abandoned us and joined with the anti-Semitic GBLT radicals?

You won’t be able to. It is over. The JCRC Board doesn’t speak for Jews. They spit on Judaism, our culture, our religion. They spit on the values of my parents, my grandparents, of our people.

My anger is bottomless, it knows no finality of depth, you have radicalized me beyond belief.

So when has the would be peacenik Davidov ever protested the AIPAC/Israeli Apartheid war machine?
Never…correct? And I wonder why? Maybe Doug Grow can explain this in an unvarnished fashion???????????????/

I wrote Don Effenberger, the News Editor:

The use of “AIPAC/Israeli Apartheid war machine” is a hyperbolic
anti-Semitic canard, and the use of “Israeli Apartheid” is a
pernicious libel. Can you or the nameless moderator justify this?

To which he replied:

Mr. Krasnoff, you’re welcome to your opinion, but there appear to be more than 380 groups, including Jewish groups, who disagree with you. http://www.endtheoccupation.org/ I don’t see a way to prevent folks from disgreeing with you in a way that doesn’t offend you.

This was just too much.

Mr. Effenberger,

The “apartheid” canard against Israel is a lie, it is libel, it is
unwarranted defamation. This is not my opinion, it is a fact. Using an
appeal to authority and the attempt to use the “Good Jew” argument
does not make the charge of apartheid any more valid. Even if a
thousand or two thousand groups leveled the apartheid charge against
Israel it wouldn’t make it true.

The moderators, representing Minnpost, allowed a lie to be perpetrated.

I note that email address of Joel Kramer, Editor and CEO of Minnpost, is not to be found. His bio tells us almost all we need to know.

…investors in Minnesota Jewish Media, a private partnership that owns American Jewish World, a local newspaper for the Jewish Community. I also serve as chair of the MJM board. …members of Shir Tikvah Congregation in South Minneapolis.

The American Jewish World, who endorsed Keith Ellison. Keith Ellison, who supported opening supply lines to the genocidal anti-Semitic Islamic Resistance Movement in Gaza?

Yes, that Keith Ellison.

The moderators at Minnpost wouldn’t allow a comment against Keith Ellison:

If progs can forgive Barry Soetero for attending a racist, anti-Semitic church for 20 years, elect Keith Ellison with his past associations with the Nation of Islam, past ethical lapses and current associations with Islamist front groups – I don’t think Mr. Gingrichs’ personal problems should be much of a problem.

The excuse: “Struck us as too vague on all the Ellison stuff – past associations, past ethical lapses, current associations”.

They will, however, assist in perpetrating anti-Semitic libel.

What we are currently witnessing is the most significant geo-political development since the fall of the Soviet Union and progressives are ignoring it entirely, despite the genocidally anti-Semitic nature of this movement. Calling this development the “Arab Spring” is something akin to calling the rise of Nazi Germany the “German Spring,” about as cruel a misnomer as one can imagine.

The conclusion is spot on.

Today’s progressives are stretching the palm of friendship to the current iteration of Nazi ideology in the Arab world and, yet, they still expect our support? Ridiculous. It is long past time for Jews to drop this movement and see it for what it is. While claiming to stand for anti-racism and universal human rights, the progressive movement has thrown both those concepts in the garbage entirely.

The progressive-left stands for nothing and has sold the Jews down the river. The first thing to do now is simply acknowledge that fact.

As the man said, read it all. Then go to any progleft website (Minnpost, TC Daily Planet, Minnesota Progressive Project, Common Dreams, e-Democracy, et. al.) to read the articles and the subsequent comments the moderators allow when it’s about Israel, Zionism or the Jews. Go to the Minnesota Green Party website and see their condemnations of Jewish self-defense against opening supply lines to the Islamic Resistance Movement in Gaza.

The progleft sympathies with crude, gutter, genocidal anti-Semitism is right there in front of you.

If you want a great review of Springtime for Qaradawi, here’s one by Robert Wistrich. You will then understand why the media, the progleft, and the multicultists are completely delusional.

“Marv was the best Jew I have ever met,” Turchick concluded.

Ah, yes. The Good Jew. The “Jew” who won the Hizb’Allah sympathizing (Noam) Chomsky Award from the Justice Studies Association. The Good Jew who sympathized with the jihadist collaborating Rachel Corrie. The Good Jew who defended the lying Desmond Tutu who falsely defamed Israel as an apartheid state and compared them to Nazis. The Good Jew who was assimilated into the religion of left wing anti-Semitic ideology. The good Jew who is going to be cremated.

Marv Davidov was the Good Jew who undid his mitzvot from the civil rights era by adhering to left wing anti-Semites who seek the destruction of Israel and the Jews.

He has a lot more to answer for than most. G-d will certainly ask him.

I was wondering if I should call the post “Don’t piss me off, I’m a union man” or “Politics and the culture of retaliation”. How about “Political betrayal and the culture of retaliation”?

How about “Why am I now a Republican?

Eh.

I don’t know.