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I just saw this story, maybe many are already aware of it, but the blatant fraudulence of EVERYTHING these people touch is incredible. At least they're consistent.
On Sunday, the day after the Pittsburgh shootings, Pence appeared at a Michigan campaign stop with a fake "Christian rabbi" who gave opening prayers that referenced "Jesus the Messiah" and petitioned God to grant Republican victories in the midterms.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/11/lena-epstein-fake-rabbi-pence-michigan-jewish-voters.html
Behind the Aegis
(53,986 posts)We, as Jews, have to deal with Neo-Nazis, the Klan, and other far-right assholes, but it is our "friends" who can be the biggest shit-stains. They bring in people who claim to be Jews to talk to us/down to us/for us. Some may even be Jewish because they once saw a Jew or took a DNA test and find they have 2% Jewish blood and they are suddenly "experts". They claim to know about our people and anti-Semitism than we do, and take pride in 'splainin' to us how we should or should act and what anti-Semitism really is and how we should react to it. Of course, there are also those "friends" who find a Jew who confirms their position or use of anti-Semitism. Why some of them even have family members who are Jews, so they could never be anti-Semites or anti-Semitic. And, of course, their love of Israel is also "proof" they love the Jews.
tanyev
(42,610 posts)Loren Jacobs, who was invited onstage by Vice President Mike Pence to speak at a rally in Michigan for a GOP congressional candidate, was defrocked 15 years ago, according to a spokeswoman for the Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations.
Loren Jacobs was stripped of his rabbinic ordination by the UMJC in 2003, after our judicial board found him guilty of libel, Monique Brumbach said in an email.
Brumbach did not say who Jacobs allegedly libeled, but it appears from his synagogue website he was involved in a theological battle with other leaders of the group, which believes that Jesus is the son of God a belief that is anathema to the vast majority of the world's Jews. Jacobs seemed to be concerned that the group was insufficiently conservative on doctrinal matters.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jews-assail-so-called-christian-rabbi-who-appeared-pence-so-n926406?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma