Israel – Tourism Ministry Denies Reports of Feeding Emanuel Treif Sea Food

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    White House Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama, Ramm Emmanuel, visiting the southern Israeli town of Ashkelon, Israel, on 23 May 2010Israel – The Tourism Ministry did not pay for visiting White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel’s family to eat non-kosher food in Eilat, a spokesman for Tourism Minister Stas Meseznikov said Monday, denying press reports.

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    Emanuel came to Israel on Friday for a 10-day trip with his family to celebrate the bar mitzva of his son Zach and nephew Noah. The ceremonies will be conducted later this week with the help of Emanuel’s rabbi in Virginia, Jack Moline, who is expected to come to Israel. Details of the bar mitzvas are still being kept a secret.

    Yediot Aharonot reported Sunday that a Tourism Ministry official paid for the Emanuel family’s meal at Eilat’s non-kosher Boston restaurant on Friday. The report said the Emanuels ate cheviche, calamari and other seafood.

    “We offered to help the Emanuels with their visit but they said no,” the spokesman said. “Our representative did not eat with them. We bring thousands of people to Israel. Our official events are kosher but when people are on their own we don’t pick at their plates or make sure they eat all their meals at the Knesset cafeteria.”

    National Union MK Michael Ben-Ari wrote Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein complaining about taxpayer funds being used for a non-kosher meal and asking him to send the bill to Emanuel’s home.

    “In my humble legal opinion there is no possibility of making the State of Israel pay for such a meal, as part of a private visit by the White House chief of staff and his family,” Ben-Ari wrote. “The public coffers are not up for grabs and the fact that the gentleman sponsors anti-Semitic policies in the White House is certainly no justification for digging into the public coffer at the expense of the old lady in the corridor of the hospital.”

    Far right activist Baruch Marzel, who works for Ben-Ari, is determined to get to the bar mitzva and heckle Emanuel because he believes he is a traitor to the Jewish people. He said he believes the bar mitzva will be at a Jerusalem hotel on Thursday or Saturday.

    “We are getting closer to him,” Marzel said.

    Rabbi Andrew Sacks, who conducts Conservative bar mitzvas at the Robinson’s Arch area near the Western Wall, declined to comment about whether he was aware of details regarding the ceremony.

    Those hoping to catch a glimpse of Emanuel Monday during a rumored visit to the Western Wall were disappointed. Emanuel and his family did not appear at the site, where reporters, photographers and at least one would-be protester were camped out. There was speculation that the family might choose a less public venue because of possible protests.

    “We are having a great time in Israel, we are really enjoying ourselves and the people are excellent,” Emanuel, dressed in shorts, told Channel 2 on Monday.


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    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    so he ate in a traif restaurant, but the government didn’t pay for that meal?

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    The whole concept of goyish children having bar mitzvahs and thinking they’re Jewish is dangerous. If the kid grows up and does teshuva people will think he’s jewish and he chas v’shalom could marry a jewish girl.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Leave the guy and his family alone. We are not the kashruth police. He can eat and do what he wants. If this idiot Marzel gets even close to him, he will be squashed so quickly by security agents he will wish he never was born.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Baruch Marzel shouldn’t heckle him at his son’s bar mitzvah. Rahm Emanuel may be a scumbag and a traitor, but his son didn’t do anything. There’s no reason to ruin the boy’s bar mitzvah.

    ChelmiTe
    ChelmiTe
    13 years ago

    Better question is who is paying for the Bar Mitzvah
    and the travel to Israel in the first place!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Rambo is a private citizen who happens to be jewish and is absolutlty entitled to eat treifus if he wants and its no one else’s business. As the government spokesperson said they don’t control where or what VIPs may eat while in EY. Lets stop imposing our morals on others who aren’t frum.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    These posters here. R out their minds,,
    How can any1 write “he is entitled to eat treifus”
    If he is a jew he is absolutly NOT entitled its user,
    He can do aveires like he does anyways but he still is not entitled, unless if he is not a jew

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    “Rabbi Jack Moline is the rabbi of Agudas Achim Congregation in Alexandria, VA, and also serves as Vice-chair of The Interfaith Alliance, a coalition of leadership from the many and diverse faith communities across this country.” ~ from google search for “Rabbi Jack Moline”

    From the agudasachim web site: Agudasachim is an egalitarian synagogue affiliated with USCJ. (Conservative.)

    Aryeh
    Aryeh
    13 years ago

    Rahm’s son can marry someone like Chelsea Clinton, maybe even Malia Obama or the daughter of Tony Rezko, or Bill Ayers, or maybe even the daughter of Rashid Khalidi or the grand daughter of Soros
    Those are the circles he moves around in and many conversative or deformed “rabbis” have no problem sprinkling some water from the golf course pond on the “convert” and saying “yesterday you were a chicken today you are a fish” er I mean in the name of the dollar, your stock broker and the holy ghost of Bernie Madoff, I baptize you a jew
    No one cares what Rahm Emanulemel fills his belly with, but tell him to stop claiming that he is “Modern Orthodox” and stop claiming that his tarfus fressing wife is a kosher giyores!

    hudyleib
    hudyleib
    13 years ago

    If a Jew sees another Jew about to commit an aveirah, he should try and stop him. At lease we should not say it’s okay, or he’s entitled. Fact, is he isn’t entitled to treif, no Jew is. He’s entitled to adhere to mitzvot…. he’s also entitled to marry are Jewish woman, or convert his shiksah properly. Poor “bar mitzva” boy, he doesn’t even realize he’s not Jewish; worse yet, neither does his Jewish father.