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The Chief Bee Whisperer, a leftist UCLA ‘rabbi’ who kicked a pro-Israel Jewish woman, the lecturer behind ‘an Introduction to Islam for Jews’ and a rabbi who claimed Hamas is ready for ‘peaceful coexistence’ signed a letter attacking Israel’s campaign against Hamas after Oct 7.
The ‘open letter’, billed as a “Jewish Orthodox response” and a “call for moral clarity” against Israel has been written up by anti-Israel outlets like the New York Times, JTA and The Forward is mostly made up of anti-Israel activists and leftists, appeasers and the completely deluded.
“In my assessment it is possible to make peace with Hamas,” Rabbi Michael Melchior, the fourth signatory (his sons Jair and Joav are also signatories) had argued, claiming that the Muslim Brotherhood was open to co-existing with Israel but “that of course has never been reported here, because it doesn’t fit into our picture of Islam” and insisted that Hamas had “always kept their parts of the agreements”.
After Oct 7, Melchior claimed to be “shocked and disappointed” by the atrocities, but went on defending Hamas. “It was a personal disappointment because I know that there were very strong forces within Hamas who didn’t want the attack.”
Another of the signatories is ‘Rabbi’ Chaim Seidler-Feller, a former UCLA Hillel boss, currently with the fringe leftist Shalom Hartman Institute, whose own moral clarity manifested when he, in his own words, “hit, kicked and scratched” female pro-Israel journalist Rachel Neuwirth.
“I saw my rabbi take swings to Neuwirth’s face and kicks to her legs,” one eyewitness described after the assault provoked by the woman’s support for Israel and opposition to terrorists. Seidler-Feller had to be pulled off the diminutive woman by “three or four large college men.”
Since then, Seidler-Feller has continued signing letters condemning Israel for defending itself.
While Seidler-Feller had attended an Orthodox seminary at Yeshiva University in 1971, he stopped being an Orthodox Rabbi a few years later and was not actually ordained until he was later sent an ordination certificate in appreciation for soliciting money from Barbara Streisand.
This still makes Seidler-Feller more of an ‘Orthodox rabbi’ than many of the signatories.
A quarter of the ‘rabbis’ signing on to the letter, like ‘Rabba Amalia Haas’, the Chief Bee Whisperer of a company that “teaches about climate change through Jewish texts”, Rabba Aliza Libman Baronofsky, Rabbi Dina Najman, Rabba Melissa Scholten-Gutierrez, Rabbi Emily Goldberg Winer, among 20 female ‘Rabbis’ signing on, were never Orthodox rabbis at all.
Orthodox Judaism does not ordain or maintain female rabbis as a basic matter of Torah, tradition and law. A significant number of the signatories to the letter are therefore non-Orthodox clergy posing as Orthodox clergy in order to undermine Israel’s fight against terrorism, and to make it appear that there is actual opposition to the fight within the Orthodox community.
Who’s actually behind the letter which falsely claims that Israel is responsible for “starvation” and complains that “Israeli extremists” responded to Oct 7 (which was backed by the vast majority of the enemy population) with “blanket suspicion of the entire population of Gaza”?
The anti-Israel letter was posted on the website of Torat Chayim, a front group for Uri L’Tzedek, a radical leftist spinoff of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, a non-orthodox social justice seminary pretending to be Orthodox which is responsible for ordaining many of the signatories.
Uri L’Tzedek was set up by ‘Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz’, a leftist activist who had converted to Judaism, who had previously laid out his vision for “an Orthodox Judaism rooted in social justice” and who has claimed credit for working to produce the anti-Israel letter while claiming that he has concerns about Israel’s “moral compass” and the “humanitarian crisis in Gaza”.
Yanklowitz had held study sessions with ‘Rabbi’ Jill Jacobs, the head and member of anti-Israel groups, including J Street’s Rabbinic Cabinet and T’ruah which promotes boycotts of parts of Israel. Some signatories of the anti-Israel letter like ‘Rabbi’ Jonah Winer (He/Him) of T’ruah, are also members of anti-Israel hate groups. (Jonah’s wife, ‘Rabbi’ Emily Goldberg Winer of Beth Sholom is also a signatory.)
The anti-Israel letter tears the mask off Uri L’Tzedek which after Oct 7 had pretended to be pro-Israel. The group even fielded a ‘slate’ for the World Zionist Congress under the completely misleading name of Dorshei Torah Ve’Tzion (Seekers of Torah and Zion) which on a field of waving Israeli flags laid out a platform that claimed to include ‘Zionism and Support for Israel’ (alongside “LGBTQ Inclusion” and a call for “security and dignity” for the “Palestinian people”.)
The Uri L’Tzedek, Eshel (LGBTQ), JOFA (feminist) and Yeshivat Maharat (a feminist seminary) slate included multiple signatories to the anti-Israel letter including ‘Rabbi’ Aliza Libman Baronofsky, Rabbanit Leah Sarna, Rabbi Max Davis and Rabbi Barry Dolinger.
Uri L’Tzedek, like other post-Orthodox groups, claim that it draws support from an underrepresented part of the Orthodox Jewish community, but who’s really funding it?
The list of sponsors for Uri L’Tzedek consists of non-Orthodox leftist groups and includes the Nathan Cummings Foundation, tied to the Soros network, and was the funder for a variety of anti-Israel groups including J Street, the Israel Policy Forum and Americans for Peace Now.
Other backers include the liberal Koch’s Stand Together Foundation. The Koch libertarian network does not normally back Jewish groups with the exception of anti-Israel ones.
Finally, Uri L’Tzedek is funded by one of the most notorious backers of the most extreme anti-Israel groups: the Puffin Foundation. Puffin, which blatantly celebrates Communism as an ideal, funds Jewish Currents, a spinoff of the old Communist Party’s Yiddish paper, which accused Israel of “genocide” and described Hamas atrocities as “resistance”.
Simone Zimmerman, a former employee of Uri L’Tzedek and a founder of the anti-Israel hate group If Not Now, wrote in the publication, calling for a communal endorsement of BDS and declaring that “Jewish communities should ask themselves ‘What would you have done to stop the annihilation of the Jews of Europe?’ and should do just that for Palestinians now. You are either for genocide or against it.”
Uri L’Tzedek vet Zimmerman had described immigration authorities as “the American Gestapo” for deporting Hamas supporters and slurred Jews fighting antisemitism as “Nazi collaborators” for supporting Jewish students being assaulted by antisemitic mobs on college campuses.
This is the money and the real agenda lurking behind the latest anti-Israel letter.
Despite the media hype, the anti-Israel letter does not represent Orthodox Jews or any kind of legitimate rabbinic movement. Many of the ‘rabbis’ signing the letter are not qualified to be Orthodox rabbis, their ordination disproportionately comes from the non-Orthodox Yeshivat Chovevei Torah social justice institution, or from Yeshivat Maharat, which had been set up by the YCT network to ordain female rabbis. Many are not practicing rabbis, but are academics and activists who use a ‘rabbi’ title to bolster their credibility. Some have entirely different professions in medicine or law. Few actually have functioning congregations. A number are ‘campus rabbis’ or teach at various non-Orthodox institutions where there are no religious standards.
Their views are not those of Torah or the Orthodox Jewish religious tradition.
Despite claiming to be Orthodox rabbis, a number are affiliated with non-Orthodox institutions like ‘Rabbi Wendy Zierler, PhD she/her’ who teaches Feminist Studies at the Reform movement’s Hebrew Union College. Rabbi Dr. Michael Chernick also teaches at HUC.
As the Coalition for Jewish Values, an actual Orthodox Jewish organization notes, the signatories include “several openly gay clergy” like Steven Greenberg, a gay man, as well as Rabbi Daniel Landes who had ordained a gay man, also incompatible with traditional Jewish practice. Rabba Melissa Scholten-Gutierrez serves on the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), a group that defended collaborating with anti-semitic and anti-Israel activists Rabbis for Repro Advisory Board and has advocated for abortion as a “Jewish right”.
The list is full of fringe leftists involved in feminist theory, gender theory and queer theory like Tyson Herberger, who studies “queer issues in Judaism”. Rabbi Dr. Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz is a feminist scholar who offers online courses such as ‘An Introduction to Islam for Jews’. Rabbi Dr. Joshua Feigelson runs the Institute for Jewish Spirituality which promotes mindfulness and meditation. Rabbi Dr. Alon Goshen-Gottstein has promoted using Hinduism to “stretch Jewish thought”. Rabba Aliza Libman Baronofsky claims to be the parent of a “non-binary child”.
All of these are fringe views that are as representative of Orthodox Judaism as a ham sandwich.
The vast majority of Orthodox Jews stand with Israel. Just as the vast majority support President Trump. Unlike the majority of American Jews, they do not believe that Judaism must defer to liberalism and that it must adopt leftist definitions of justice to be a moral foundation. And the more they stand strong, the more the Left, under its various guises, tries to get in.
The New York Times may promote the lie that these leftist front groups taking a stand against Israel represent Orthodox Judaism, but actual Orthodox Jews will always know better.
Yeah, declare a “ceasefire!” That’ll work out.
Oh, wait. The Hamas homos violated it on day one, to nobody’s surprise outside the Dirtbagocrat fake news media.
The only solution to Hamas is shoot on site, which the IDF has been doing along with greasing Houthi leaders. Happy hunting, I say.
that’s my boychik mi heffy Jeffy – you should have gone to West Point – You would know there is only one way to take care of the charging or laying in wait enemy – dispatch their souls to YHVH for judgment….
General Jeff – they would have called you Two Gun General, not just because you carry two pearl handle pistolas on your sides but – well, remember when Lil’ Bill in “Unforgiven” was talking about how English Bob shot down Two Gun, it wasn’t because he carried two guns, it was the size of his shlong that somehow found its way into a lady English Bob was kinda sweet on –
BTW…boychick is Yiddish slang for young boy and/or buddy or friend…
Not the boy-chicks in drag or trans mutilation.
some “lady” Twogun poked. He’s better off without that “jewel”.
After 15 years ago I saw Satmar idiots in a demonstration in which pro “Palestine” demonstrators carried banners depicting a mushroom cloud over Tel Aviv= a harbinger of their genocidal intentions toward Jews. They also sent representatives to Iran’s Holocaust Denial Conference. Despicable.
That wasn’t Satmar. That was Neturei Karta, a tiny fringe sect that has no relation to Satmar-and that Satmar has in fact excommunicated.
Satmar and Neuterei Karta are not Jews. They’re scum, dreck, shit, whatever one wishes to call them. I do not know why we put up with them, oh wait, those like Nadler, Schumer, Emhoff, Vicki Starmer, Dan Goldman, Schiff, Blinken, Garland, Mayorkas, Ossoff aka ASS OFF, are no better. They’ll wake up when they’re shoved about cattle calls – and then again, maybe not.
I’d love to go up to one of these fake Satmar “rebbes” and shove a pulled pork sandwich right down their throats. Heck., they’d probably think it was Madeleine Albright’s corpse.
Genesis 19:5 sums up God’s judgement on all this inclusion wickedness: It applies to Israel today. Traitorous fake Orthodox Rabbi’s are a symptom. Genesis 19:4-5 show that Lot was weak. He fostered the inclusion of sexual depravity.
“Every single man in the city of Sodom has gathered and surrounded Lot’s house. They know he has welcomed two travelers into his home. The men of Sodom don’t know these strangers are angels disguised in human form, sent from God to confirm the sins of Sodom in preparation for God’s judgment.
The men of Sodom demonstrate their wickedness in the most grotesque and obvious way possible. They demand for Lot to send the strangers out, so they may “know” them. This language is a commonly-used Hebrew euphemism for sex. Despite absurd claims to the contrary, the “knowledge” sought here is not curiosity or friendliness. Lot’s reaction, shown in the next two verses, proves this: he will beg the men not to “act so wickedly.” The violent and angry response of this same crowd proves the point even further. The context of this passage makes the situation absolutely clear: the men of Sodom want Lot to turn his guests over for sexual purposes”.
(Got Questions https://www.gotquestions.org/Sodom-and-Gomorrah.html)
Inclusion is homosexual rape? I don’t like favoritism when it removes skill and qualification from competition. But this is a bit overboard. I don’t even like heterosexual rape that is actually rampant in comparison.
There are no limits to which leftists, coddled in their many masked manifestations, will work to undermine the truth. Those among them pretending to be Orthodox Jews and signing these alliances suggesting that the psychopathic Hamas, brandishing a charter clearly stating their genocidal goals of annihilating ALL Jews, want “peace” is the suicidal, cognitive dissonance required to engage in such malevolent behavior furthering Hamas’ genocidal goals.
These academicians sitting in their offices and the fake, Orthodox-rabbis masquerade, provide us with their irreconcilable problem. They have long perched themselves as the progressive standard of morality underwriting all victim-based groups against the colonizing efforts of normal society. Their self-righteousness insulates them from unresolvable contradictions but what happens when your victim, currently the Gaza Arabs, are actively engaged in both supporting Hamas and participating in their horrifying commission of barbarous, sadistic acts of rape, torture, mutilation, beheadings, the burning alive of babies, women, children and the elderly as well as both torturing and starving the hostages?
By what standard to do you further evade reality because to face it means the entire premises upon which your self righteous identity is predicated will collapse under the empirically, verifiable truth of Hamas’ vicious, psychopathic, invasion of the sovereign borders of the Jewish state in a genocidal fury. The leftists, from the garden variety, college students, academicians, social media influencers, paid agitators, Islamist supporters, and Congressional, deep state players all share an identity built upon moral relativism and the shifting sands of truth. The sheer magnitude of facing the extreme depths of cognitive dissonance generated in confronting this rampaging evil excoriating the innocent would destroy their always-malleable, hopelessly contrived, virtueless morality. To protect themselves from this onslaught, they will double and triple down to avoid facing their willing collaboration with evil and their rabid participation in this ongoing malevolence.
Attempting to shroud themselves behind the truly Orthodox is a vain attempt to provide themselves cover from these atrocities and themselves. They can run into the arms of these madmen for refuge but it is only temporary because these deceptive propagandists hate ALL Jews, and no Jews are the exceptions!
Self-hating Jews, you mean?
They are the worst antisemites!
Oh yes they are and I DO KNOW from persona;l experiences with them.
Please read other articles by Daniel Greenfield disputing these numbers, The mainstream media posts supposed voting statistics of Jews that are inaccurate. Fake polls are disseminated in a media that I bet you don’t usually believe except when it smears Jews. Some of these polling organizations have been led by leftists from prior Democrat administrations.
No one in my family, circle of friends, nor any of three rabbis (current and prior) ever registered or voted Democrat). Yes, there are some leftwing Jewish, older folks still reading the New York Times, and some college students but I doubt it is at 70%!
After 10/7 even some of those who leaned left had an awakening. Jews are not monolithic in political persuasion but they don’t need your sneering chastisement .
It’s possible to make peace with Hamas using the same method as you would to make peace with a rabid dog – a bullet to the head.
The left would prefer the OTHER method of “making peace” – kneel before the savages, bow your head, and prepare to be “struck on your neck”! Nothing short of death to Israel would appease the savages and then where would they turn their UNIFIED attention?
The biggest opportunity the West has to combat islam is in Gaza – total elimination of hamass would be a good start! We should also be utilizing their internal hatred of each other by promoting the sunni’s where the shiites rule and vice versa! And just for good measure, start taking those MILLIONS of wild boars captured in the US and be good stewards of nature by RELOCATING them!
Nicely put.
I attempted to post just this but the silly bot said that’s not long enough, so I’ve added some additional syllables. Hope this is long enough.
So it’s Kosher chickens for KFC?
These people need to be in the next buffer zone between Gaza and Israel, assuming Israel is prevented from taking over Gaza, with the understanding they will NOT be traded for terrorists. If Hamas takes them, Israel has no requirement to get them back, but can do what they should do to Hamas.
If these useless idiots die in the process, they chose it.
You are on to something here.
A series of kabutzes could be established on Israel’s border with Gaza, and Israel announces that all who move there will not be saved by the IDF should they be attacked.
It these fake orthodox refuse to move in, then bust them hard in the media and the Knesset.
BTW, is your nom de plume a reference to the Babylon 5 sci-fi show?
Useful Idiots for Islamic Anti-Semite hate mongers
Thanks Daniel, for giving us the true story.
Yes, thank Daniel.
I often forget that the majority of Jews are now younger than me, and have no memory of what these mamzers have done in the past.
‘Orthodox Judaism’ has been a partially hijacked term for a long time. Not content with all the fake so-called streams of Judaism, then we were treated with a heap of fake `Orthodox Judaisms’ Any term we use for ourselves seems to have a limited lifetime before that term is overwhelmed by a pack of creeps. In the age of AI that lifetime may be getting quite short.
No statistics about Jewish political support are ever trustworthy if they come from MSM or whatever it is called these days.
Everyone of these fake leftist “rabbis” mentioned in this article should be forced to move to Gaza City where they can live with their “peaceful bretheren” until some low rent hamas murderer guns them down. They should also be prohibited from ever setting foot in Israel again. They aren’t Jews. They are leftist traitors.
There is no difference between them and the usual America hating leftists.
There are fake, ignorant (apostate) Christians as well who believe that Islam is just another version of Christianity.
Jay Smith actually has surmised that Islam really sprung out of the Arrian heresy within Christianity. The Vandals, who had been converted to the Arrian heresy, invaded Spain and then North Africa, waging actual warfare against the trinitarian Christians.
It will not be possible to make peace with a people who want political control by using spiritual control over you. To control the spirit and mind are their final desire. They will not stop because their God will bless them with eternal beauty and beautiful babes.
“All of these are fringe views that are as representative of Orthodox Judaism as a ham sandwich.”
More like a ham and cheese sandwich served at noon on Yom Kippur!
Labels and titles become more useless every day. They mean nothing and sometimes worse than nothing, because they feed people’s misconceptions of what they are.
Actually all of these fake rabbis are committing one of the worst sins imaginable – literally taking the name of the Lord in vain. They are using the mantle of religiosity to advance their crackpot delusional schemes, while at the same time profiting personally by being paid as fake scholars.
Truly shameful. But feeling shame requires self awareness which I suspect none of these people have.
Liberalism is not only a problem within Judaism. I used to belong to a Mennonite church which, because it was the only one in my particular country, contained liberals, most of them pro-Palestinian, as well as evangelicals. The liberal group used to go out of its way to subvert Scripture – a case in point was the sermon that claimed that the Canaanite woman had the ministry of challenging Jesus’ “ethnocentrism” and helped Him to develop as a person. I am aware that not every reader will share the Christian view of Him – but these people claimed that they did – in which case, how dared they?
In the Old Testament there are stories of women who were raised up to lead to do battle because there was either no men around or to show that YHVH will use any capable woman or man to do HIS PLANS for HIS creation.
However, the scant few times I have been in a service with a female rabbi or cantor is to infrequent for me to recall.
It is surrealistic. It’s Alice in Wonderland. My spirt tells me something is not right and my body crawls with demons pricking me.
I have never expressed this until this very reply.
I am focusing not on women in leadership roles, only women who get ordained rabbis or cantors.
I am not a religious practicing person and I did call on God and Jesus to prove to me THEY are real and no matter what show me the truth 40 years ago.
I can no more tolerate for continued appearances in any church denomination than I can a synagogue.
I can learn from them, but I prefer my connection to YHVH and Yeshua be without a religious firewall where I have to search for the portal to connect and seeds of doubt are sewn by the pastor or assembly members I have no firewall between my and YHVH and Jesus so I can have 24/7 connection.
Having qualified that, I don’t give tiddlywink if there are female rabbis or cantors. What does cause me ire and utter disbelief how any Hebrew/Jewish person with 100% Hebrew DNA and born into the Jewish religion can be anti-Israel and antisemitic and anti-Zionism!
Has the demon seed that impregnated Eve in the Garden, that birthed Cain and his Kenite DNA be the self loathing and outwardly anit-Jew/Hebrew/Israel/Zionism folks?
Eve was NOT impregnated by anyone other than Adam.
Please do everyone a favor and actually read Genesis using a Jewish Tanakh translated into English.
Wherever you’ve grabbed this nonsense, let it go.
You forgot another group of fake orthodox rabbis from the fringe group Neturei Karta. These idiots have made up a fictional religious dogma that Israel can only be restored by the Messiah. Except that in the Torah, there’s no concept of a Messiah. And according to Deuteronomy 30:1-5, after all the blessings and curses (if the Israelites don’t abide by the commandments & laws – see Deuteronomy chapter 28) ONLY God will bring his people who have been scattered back to the land HE promised to their forefathers. That’s GOD not a Messiah or even an appointed prophet but ONLY GOD!
It’s ironic that men who call themselves rabbis, abide by interpretations of the Torah for things that are never mentioned.
I can and should add some personal insights here.
Back in late 1974 I was a student at UCLA. One of Yasser Arafat’s media types was invited to speak at the Ackerman Union, if I remember right. I was there, and lo and behold a quite different Chaim Seidler-Feller (not the mentally challenged Left wingbat he is now) was there challenging the PLO guy. All of a sudden the Arab students surrounded Seidler-Feller and he would have had the bleep kicked out of him if I and a few other Jewish students didn’t put a ring around him. Looking back, and seeing what Seidler Feller has become I kind of wish I never did protect him – ditto the others who did. He loves them, he DESERVES THEM, THE COCKROACHES.
I am a old man now living in Arizona where I am quite familiar with the antics of “FAKE JEW” let alone “FAKE RABBI” Shmuley Yanklovitz. A “GOY’ who was never a Jew, yet Rabbi Shlomo Riskin (he of the settler movement) stupidly ordained him as a Rabbi without even a cursory investigation of his background. Yanklovitz will drop everything for an ILLEGAL ALIEN OR FOR LGBQT, but God forbid he will ever defend Israel or traditional Jewish values. Quite the contrary – he constantly criticizes Israel, defends the Palestinians, and endorses Jew-hating Democrats like a kid with a sugar fixation. No surprise he’s buddies with those like Sharon Brous in L.A. and Jill Jacobs who also undermine Israel and our people.
He heads a “Jews for Justice’ group that is no better and just as bad as Not in Our Name and other “Jews” for Adolf types.
I’ve never met the cockroach lover Shmuley but have constantly called him out and challenged him. So what does a brave, strutting peacock like Yanklovetz does?
I can tell you he won’t respond because like all disgusting KAPO types he prefers blocking instead of dealing with truth, reality and facts. I can also tell you this, that because he is such a coward maybe it is a good thing he doesn’t have the guts to deal with me because for me it is zero tolerance for those who make excuses for 10-7 and for 9/11.