Rabbi Shmuley Unleashed

Public Asks for Political Inspiration, but Responds to Negative Attacks

jgordon1 — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:12:46 +0000

There are two people running against me in the Republican primary for New Jersey’s Ninth district and recently I had an interesting lesson in politics from both. Call me naïve, but I really thought we could have a primary where people respected each other and treated one another as friends. For that reason I invited my main challenger to my home for Friday night Shabbat dinner and sat him right next to me in a place of honor at our home. There were about 40 other guests that night, many of...

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Would Hilary Rosen Have Criticized Stay-at-Home Dads as Never Having Worked?

jgordon1 — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:22:07 +0000

It's good that Hilary Rosen apologized for her comments that Ann Romney, who chose to be a stay-at-home mom to raise her five boys, had 'never worked a day in her life.' It took a day for Rosen to finally acknowledge that her comments were unhelpful, but she finally said, "I apologize to Ann Romney and anyone else who was offended."

Now, I am opposed to the culture of offense where people look to be offended by some public comment. We all need to chill a little and stop pouncing on each...

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An Ungrateful Karzai Calls American Troops Demons

jgordon1 — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:21:39 +0000

Hamid Karzai recently called the brave and selfless members of the United States military ‘demons’ who were guilty of perhaps ‘500’ atrocities against the people of the Afghanistan. One would have thought that the American Commander-in-Chief would swiftly denounce this stunning act of ingratitude by reminding him that nearly 2000 American troops have given their lives for the freedom of the Afghani people. They are angels of mercy, not demons. But in remaining silent President Obama not...

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Jews Must Demand Relationship of Equality with Christians

jgordon1 — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:39:41 +0000

No Holds Barred: It is high time that our warm allies in the Mormon Church cease the posthumous baptizing of any and all Jews.

My much-publicized dispute with Canadian TV host Michael Coren last week taught me valuable lessons about the Jewish community and the new relationship with our Christian brothers and sisters.

For those of you who missed it, I was invited on to Coren’s Sun TV show to promote my new book Kosher Jesus, or so I thought. Within minutes Coren had made four very...

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The Michael Coren Christians Who Cowardly Deny Church History

jgordon1 — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:03:50 +0000

I came on to Michael Coren’s TV show in Canada to simply talk about my new book Kosher Jesus, which has received wide attention throughout the world. I left dazed, having heard from him that Jews refuse to appreciate Christians, depict them negatively, and essentially control Hollywood.

Now Coren has shoved his foot far deeper into his mouth with a personal diatribe against me.

Personal insults are the last refuge of the intellectual coward.

All Coren had to do was apologize for these...

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Canadian TV Host Insinuates to Rabbi Shmuley Jews Control Hollywood

jgordon1 — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:01:44 +0000

Today I had what was probably the most unpleasant TV interview of my life on Canada’s Sun News Network (national). Interviewed by host Michael Coren about my book Kosher Jesus, I expected to be asked about the book’s content. The interview started that way. But then Coren quickly got to a question that seemed to be bursting from within. You’ll have to see the exact show, airing tonight at 7pm, for complete accuracy, and I am writing this about an hour after.

Coren essentially asked me...

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A Father thanks a Political Rival for Nominating His Son to West Point

jgordon1 — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:19:47 +0000

If I run for Congress in New Jersey’s Ninth district, I will be squaring off against either Congressman Steve Rothman or Congressman Bill Pascrell, who have been squeezed into the same district and who are competing against each other for their party’s nomination.

Rothman and I have fought some tough, public battles against one another, primarily over the Libyan embassy, which is my immediate next-door neighbor in Englewood, New Jersey. I have also been critical of his support for...

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Bin Laden’s Burial and Other Religious Frauds

tkayden — Mon, 16 May 2011 19:41:11 +0000

Bin Laden’s Burial and Other Religious Frauds

By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

The bizarre burial of Osama bin Laden at sea – an action necessitated by our government’s need to accommodate Islamic law requiring that a Muslim be buried within 24 hours of death – raises urgent questions about the definition of faith in America. Can a mass murderer be said to be religious? Can there be religious ritual without religious values? And should Western governments participate in this...

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An American Marvels at South Africa

tkayden — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:12:42 +0000

This week I visited South Africa on a lecture tour to three of its cities. It is not my first trip to South Africa since the end of apartheid. It’s my fifth. Still I never cease to marvel at the miracle of racial harmony that is this remarkable nation. In Cape Town you don’t feel it as much, seeing the white and black populations do not seem to be as integrated. But in Johannesburg and elsewhere it’s an incredible thing to see whites and blacks living and interacting together as if...

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War Cry of the Values-Based Parent

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:41:18 +0000

Touché. The man has a point. America as a nation would probably get an overall A in the success department but a D minus in getting along with each other. With half the population divorced, families disintegrating all around us, and some nutjob shooting up innocent bystanders about every other week, we clearly have demonstrated something of an inability to master interpersonal relationships, both with those we love most as well as strangers.

But I have a...

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