Washington – More than 600 rabbis displayed their support for US President Barack Obama’s reelection bid on Tuesday, joining a campaign initiative called Rabbis for Obama.
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Obama for America announced Tuesday that Rabbis for Obama is designed to “engage and mobilize grassroots supporters.”
The rabbis represent themselves and not individual synagogues or organizations, according to the news release. The names of all the rabbis can be found on the website barackobama.com/rabbis. Most of the rabbis are Reform or Conservative, although a handful are Orthodox.
“This list of rabbis represents a broad group of respected Jewish leaders from all parts of the country. These rabbis mirror the diversity of American Jewry,” Ira Forman, the Obama campaign’s Jewish outreach director, said in a news release.
“Their ringing endorsement of President Obama speaks volumes about the president’s deep commitment to the security of the state of Israel and his dedication to a policy agenda that represents the values of the overwhelming majority of the American Jewish community,” Forman said.
The number of rabbis signing on is more than double the number who added their names to President Obama’s 2008 campaign at the launch of a similar effort then.
Rabbis Sam Gordon and Steven Bob, both of Illinois, and Burt Visotzky of New York are co-chairs for this initiative. The first two started Rabbis for Obama in 2008.
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I have never seen so many female rabbis. Wow. What qualifys someone as a rabbi?
My faith in them any of them has been dashed to dust.
Interesting; Very few hebrew names on the list.
I am sure there are no Halachic rabbis found among them. Not with the unprecedented arrogance, lack of support of family values and contempt for Israel.
I think it is a good thing that these ‘rabbis’ have come out in support of Obama, it will only serve to highlight their ineptitude and lack of impact…Good news, in other words…
Wanna bet most are reform?
ARE THOSE ‘RABBI’S JEWISH?
I don’t care which Rabbi supports Obama. But I’m definitely not gonna vote for him.
how about the only rabbis for obama
I am voting for Obama. The GOP has gone round the bend in craziness.
they should lose their tax exempt status and their parsonage
oh I forgot there are no laws for liberals
Just like every jewish person committing a crime, is promoted by the press to be a rabbi. Now every deedle doo that is pro Obama has a door of opportunity of promotion.
Give me a break
So about 6 rabbis from each state a joke
Nice to see that Rabbi Abe Friedman made the lists.
I actually think this is good. Why? Because there’s still a significant chance Obama will win re-election and we don’t want a president that owes no gratitude and favors to ANY Jews.
I for one am (almost) always glad when there are Jews in support of both candidates. It makes simple political sense and is an important strategy for us.
Never realized before how many of the conservative and reform clergy are women. My vote isn’t influenced by any rabbi anyway, even a real one.
Over 180 of them females. They qualify as rabbis much like Obama qualifies as U.S. President. Four more years of this impostor at the helm of our country will sink us. G-d help us!
They aren’t rabbis, they are uber socialist jews. Their opinion is completely worthless to anyone with a brain in their head.
As Rav Moshe used to call the, ראבביס
That gets me thinking. I will start “Noahides For Obama.”
They all make me sick
Lol what a weird lot. No zionists on the list?
Voting for Obama is like eating chazir on yom kippur.
599 of the 600 ‘rabbis’ listed are not rabbis at all and one rabbi listed is just plain nuts, a real mental case. These phonies who call themselves rabbis don’t practice Judaism they practice deviant religions such as “Reform”, “Conservative”, “Reconstructionism”, “Feminism”, “Socialism”, and other non Jewish cults. They lie to their followers and proclaim to them that “This is Judaism!” or “Judaism is evolving” or some other stupid ideas they have to fool their naive followers. If I lived in Buzzard Crotch, Louisiana I can call myself “Rabbi” and make up my own version of a religion and call it Judaism. No one will know the difference, I am the “Rabbi”.
We must put a stop to this Sheker. There is no such thing as a woman rabbi; Homo—- Toayvah is an abomination and is punishable with death; only pigs eat pig; Saturday is Shabbos and Hashem gave us his Torah. These ousvorf phony reform / conservative / reconstruction / deconstruction, etc. say that men and women wrote different parts of the Torah at different times in history! What rubbish these phony rabbis heap on their followers and what naive followers they have! NEBECH! Hashem Yeracheim!!!
Some Jews are hard-left no matter what. They’d vote for Chavez or Castro before voting for a Republican.
What’s wrong with all of you?
Obama is relatively good for Israel. He’s certainly much better than Carter and Nixon!
The truth is that no one actually likes Israel, so we can just hope for the one who is less evil.
No one lives up to their campaign promises on anything, let alone Israel, so you never know what you’re going to get.
The truth is that a president has very little to do with foreign policy or the economic climate, and people like yourselves are much like little children. You’re trying to blame one person for a problem that is much bigger and older than the 4 or 8 years of any president.
Why any of you even mention the economy is beyond me. The problem is with the entire Keynesian economic system and the Federal reserve, not Obama.
Secondly, you’re foolish if you believe that your vote counts for anything!
GM IS NOT THRIVING.
IT OWES US TAXPAYERS 35 BBBBILLION DOLLARS
Cash for klunkers raised prices on ‘used car parts’ to repair our cars.
The steel was sold to China
The average person couldnt take advantage of that program because credit was tightened.
The top of the ‘credit scores’ were the only ones t hat was able to take advantage.
Obama did that program as a ‘thank you’ to the unions.
The exectutives are still getting multi millions in retirments and other advantages EVEN THOUGH IT WAS THEIR MANAGEMENT.THAT WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE OPERATIONS OF THE FAILING GM….and it is still failing.
The executives in GM gets salaries based on performance.During those years not one exec getting multi million dollar salaries were reduced and they were getting RAISES.
There is much more…
obama is destroying our AMERICA AND OUR ISRAEL.
When obama showed the bottom of his feet sitting on a desk greeting Netanyahu is an example of the bottom of his heart and soul for Jews and Israel.
Obama is laughing all the way to the bank! He knows best how foolish they are!
To #29 -HaNavon- I have to take issue with your criticism of President Richard Nixon, as not being good for Israel. I would like to remind you that during the Yom Kippur War, when EY was losing, Nixon authorized a massive airlift to resupply EY. There were hundreds of flights of gigantic C-5A Galaxy planes, which brought in tanks, artillery, ammunition, and other needed war materials. In addition, fighter jets were flown off the decks of aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean, as well as from bases in Europe, and the USA. The airlift had to fly from the state of Delaware through the Azores, since the European countries would not permit overflights. Nixon overuled Henry Kissinger, who initially, was against the airlift. The airlift turned the tide, against the Egyptians and the Syrians. Nixon was a good friend of Israel, and Golda Meir and him, had a genuine respect and admiration for each other.
The reasons there are so few rabbonim from unzer are 1) they don’t read newspapers, listen to radio, watch TV or go on the internet, so how could form an opinion? and 2) they don’t recognize any of form of Judaism besides there own – and even among their own they have their doubts – so the idea of cooperating with others is silly.
This Liberal, CT Attorney whose life has been bettered by the passing of Civil Rights legislation and other Democrat sponsored social reforms is PROUD that three members of his family are on the list of 600.
I never made more money than when Clinto was President, or lost more money and had my property devalued then when both Bushes wedre in office. I’ll not be voting for Romney under any circumstances. I do vote for the candidate, not the party. I’m old enough to remember respectable Republicans such as Nelson Rockefeller and Kenneth Keating.
Now we have idiot Republicans who skinny dip ion the Galil and talk about legitimate rape.
Ditto Ditto ! Everyone already expressed what I would have said. If those men or women are rabbis then I’m a monkey’s uncle.
The two rabbis on the list from Richmond, VA are gay. They belong to the reform synagogue, Beth Ahabah. The “rabbi” surprised his congregation when they asked him about his married status (this was after he was hired) and he pointed to his “partner”. Surprise surprise. Guess they should have checked him out a little more carefully before hiring him. Except they don’t care. Now IF the “rabbi” were to say he was shomer shabbos and kosher, I doubt they would have been too accepting.
Anyway, anyone else noticed that most of that list lives in CA??? What does that tell you? I bet BO will spending a lot of his time campaigning on the Far Left Coast pretending to love Israel and love Jews and these phonies will continue to lap it up.
Basically, put a D after any name, and a liberal Jew will vote for it. I’ve said it before, put Hitler (yms) and they will STILL vote for him. Even if BO were to say drop the A-bomb on Israel, they will be cheering him on saying, great choice, good job. It’s sick and sad to watch. But what do you except when you throw away the yoke of Torah and worship liberalism as a religion?
As a rav and attorney who signed the list I am offended at some of the comments made here. The suggestion that I am not a Yireh Shomayim or frum etc. is insulting. While reasonable minds can disagree on issues of substance the complete lack of Derech Eretz among some of the commentators here is a true Chilul Hashem and a bizayon. It is clear from merely reading these comments why Moshiach Tzidkeinu has not yet arrived and we still reside in Galus.
To #’s 53 and 71- What difference did it make whether or not Nixon or Reagan loved EY? It is very important to look at a person’s deeds, no matter what they are thinking or feeling. The fact of the matter is that the massive 1973 airlift, which went on for several weeks, involving hundreds of flights (authorized by Nixon), helped EY turn the tide against Egypt and Syria. The fighter jets and tanks, which were sent, were replacements for the ones which the IAF and IDF lost during the first 10 days of fighting. Former Prime Minister Golda Meir stated “For generations, all will be told of the massive planes from the United States, which mean life for our people”.