Under the pretense of trying to better understand how Jewish voters feel about Barack Obama, the Republican Jewish Coalition is conducting a poll that resembles an approach used for years, by Anti-Semites who sought to make Jew hatred acceptable in our culture. Like their hate-mongering predecessors, the poll inquires about people's feelings on a topic, in this case Senator Obama, in light of things which others, have said about him. The premise being that if someone you like said something nice about him, you too should support him. If however, someone you don't like was supportive if him, perhaps you should fear him.
It would be like asking Catholics how they feel about Jews, in light of the fact that for almost two thousand years, the leading minds of the Church considered Jews guilty of deicide. Whatever they were thinking before, and however much Vatican Two and subsequent teaching has decried that position, the seeds of hate would be re-planted in the minds of many faithful Catholics who were asked that way about their current feelings toward Jews.
How about asking people if they think that Henry Ford was a great American, and then if they answer yes, reminding them that he thought Jew hatred was not only acceptable but wise? If you worked for the RJC, you would simply call that information gathering. But I call it both ironic and detestable that they have sunk to that level.
I appreciate that in a close election, campaigning is a full contact sport no matter which candidate you support. And the claim by some in the Jewish community that this poll is "un-Jewish" or means that RJC supporters have read themselves out of the Jewish community is ridiculous. But I do think that something is off when the tactics one uses, presumably for the good of their own community, are torn from a page of the playbook used to victimize that very same community!
We do not have to agree about which candidate is best for our nation, for Israel, or for the Jewish people. In fact, I think it is great that we have robust support for both Senators McCain and Obama within the Jewish community. But fear mongering of this sort, or that on the left, which tries to scare Jews out of voting Republican because Sarah Palin is a committed Evangelical, and "you know how those people think", has got to stop.
On November fifth, we will all wake up to one president for one nation. I hate to think that as we reflect on the election, one of the standout realizations will be that Jews lead the way in making sure that it would be as difficult as possible to come together and make that work.
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Author, radio and TV talk show host, and President of CLAL-The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, Brad Hirschfield is the author of 
Dear Paul Fisher,
Perhaps you've been too busy supporting your candidate to realize that Reverand Wright is not running for office. He is also not the originator of the words by which you now condemn him. Those words came from another man, who voiced them some years before. Ms. Palin, with her illegitimate future grandchild, is an avowed member of the NRA!! How can she govern our country if she cannot even govern her own home?! What "mischief" will slip under the radar under her watch?
IMHO the Jews had little or nothing to do with the killing of the "Jewish" Jesus. That would be the Jesus alluded to in Isaiah 9:6 "For a Child hath been born to us, A Son hath been given to us, And the princely power is on his shoulder, And He doth call his name Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace." [YLT] This would be the same Jesus that Herod (an Arab) sought to find and kill after learning of his birth. It would also be the same Jesus that the Emperor Tiberius Caesar DID order killed after learning of the large crowds constantly following "King" Jesus around the Sea of Galilee to listen to his uplifting, inspiring sermons on liberty, human destiny and empowerment (the true gospel message). Pontius Pilate had a choice in his Imperial Order from Tiberius, "Kill Jesus" or "You, yourself, shall be recalled and die."
Now, on-the-other-hand, the Jews DID kill the "Roman" Jesus. That would be the anti-Jesus created for purely political purposes by the Emperor Constantine I, circa 320 AD. The "Roman" Jesus never existed, but is a figment created from an interpolation of a few snippets of the "Jewish" Jesus' teachings, combined with a lot of Roman and other pagan religious beliefs. Since this particular Jesus was created out of whole cloth for Constantine's political purposes, it was necessary to erase from history that it WAS the Roman's that killed the "living" Jewish Jesus. To remove themselves from guilt of killing the "real" Jesus, a major part of the interpolation of the new testament was to fabricate the story that the Jews killed Jesus. And to this day, that's the version, the false version, which is believed worldwide.
Where's my proof for these assertions? I haven't any, but I am a gambler and I would willingly wager and give odds that literally hundreds of manuscripts (literally word-for-word transcripts of the Jewish Jesus' teachings by his courtly scribes) are buried and well-preserved in the TOP SECRET archives of the Vatican Library, where from which one day soon they will be revealed and biblical scholars will be allowed to enter and study them. And my additional wager is that the Transcendent Power of these manuscripts will be far and away superior and mind-blowing when compared to the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi manuscripts. Where did the Vatican Library acquire these manuscripts? They were first acquired by the Roman Emperor Vespasian in 74 AD and his general, Silva, brought and conquered the last Jewish stronghold at Massada. From then on the Roman Emperor's preserved and maintained custody of the "sacred" manuscripts until Constantine I (the Great), who after formally organizing "christianity" into a single, universal church from the many and diverse "local assemblies or ecclesia" at the First Church Council of Nicea, passed them on to Pope Sylvester I, who preserved, but buried and hid them.
So, you may still be asking, where's your proof for this outlandish version or reversion or revision of what has been commonly accepted for nearly 2000 years?
At the risk of being labeled insane by Charles Cosimano [et al], who posted the following comment at 6:14 pm, September 18:
[quote] "It is time to recognize that the election is between people who are all borderline insane. Nothing that spews forth from any of them would surprise me now." [endquote]...
I have this to say: Angels I have heard on high, sweetly singing in my mind, and my soul in rapt reply, echoing its joyous strains, Gloria, in excelsis Deo!
dear michael I agree with you, thats why its not good to let a religion be our god. we need to read the bible through and pray that the LORD helps us to understand, and guide us. I read a article about two or three years ago, about a archeologist named ron wyatt, he made a claim on his death bed that I beleive should be more well known. check wyatt archeological research, it tells about proof about christ and the cross. may GOD bless
The Illogic of Jews Being Guilty of "Deicide" in the Killing of Jesus
Christian Premise One: Jesus is/was God.
Christian (and Jewish) Premise Two: God is Eternal.
Christian Premise Three: Jesus was Resurrected.
Therefore, no matter who killed Jesus, it's not Deicide, but Attempted Deicide.
Guilt or innocence aside, the least the Inquisition could do is offer us a plea bargain with a sentence of "time served."
JNS
what about Talmud? anyone knows what the book said about the others???
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