Friday, September 25, 2009
From The Jewish Advocate: At potluck, breaking bread - and the ice. The article requires paid subscription (or a hard copy), but here are a couple of highlights:
Platters of dates and challah; bowls of hummus and curried apple soup; and plates of apples and honey and Egyptian noodles and rice--such was the fare at the Muslim and Jewish holiday potluck.
Shortly after the end of Ramadan and Rosh Hashanah, more than 60 Jews and Muslims in their 20s and 30s gathered at the Workmen's Circle in Brookline to share holiday traditions and food.
Monday's potluck kicked off an initiative by a new Muslim-Jewish leadership team that aims to promote interfaith relations and social justice...
...Margie Klein noted that from the standpoint of religious observance, many of the Muslims at the gathering appeared to have more in common with Orthodox Jews than with the less religious Jews who attended.
Klein is the founder of the Moishe/Kavod House, a Brooklinebased organization that promotes social justice. It sponsored the potluck along with the Boston Chapter of the Muslim American Society and the Workmen's Circle, a secular Jewish cultural center...
That's because Workmen's Circle is a secular leftist organization. The MAS, as you know, is the American face of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the group behind the Boston Mosque project.
Were all the Muslims at this event really radicals, consciously using their "Jewish" interlocutors as cover for the day when the pod people stage the final takeover? Uh. No. Of course not. But the problems with the MAS leadership are well known, and the Workmen's Circle's continued covering for them is equally well known. They're not just uninterested in the MAS's radical ties, they actively provide cover and excuses for them, and try their hardest to normalize relations with a group that has profound issues that other mainstream groups see clearly.
What sort of Judaism do the secular Jews in attendance actually practice? This bit gives a clue as to their priorities:
...While the participants Monday talked about religion, they tended to avoid politics. One exception was a Jew who cited protesting for Palestinian rights outside of synagogues over the High Holidays as a meaningful holiday experience...
Nothing like a little meaningful religious practice to cleanse the spirit at holiday time.
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If the MAS is really the Muslim Brotherhood, then the Jewish Federation is really the Tuesday night meeting of the Elders of Zion. If this were not libel, it would simply be B.S.
David,
You should really get some facts before spouting off and go digging for the brotherhood and see where its shoots are sprouting.
As for Jewish Federation, whatever that implies, according to Ahmadinejad and others they are one's who subscribe to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Now with Goldstone's report you are not going to deny that fact, are you?
None so arrogant as those so ignorant.
And for those who object to feeding a troll well, as your President is reaching out to us aliens I must, during this sacred time, take his words to heart:
.... Let us reject the impulse to harden ourselves to others' suffering, and instead make a habit of empathy - of recognizing ourselves in each other and extending our compassion to those in need.
None so arrogant as those so ignorant.