Actually, the title is a joke, but it does reflect a sort of American Jewish political idiom that Palin will have to deal with.<\/p>\n
The problem is that her church hosted a talk from David Brickner, and unlike Obama and Jeremiah Wright, Palin was in the audience listening happily<\/a> (see also here<\/a>)<\/p>\n David Brickner is the controversial founder of Jews for Jesus, a front group for evangelicals targeting Jews for proselytization. Additionally, while speaking before her church, and Palin<\/span>, he, “told the congregation that terrorist attacks in Israel are God\u2019s ‘judgment of unbelief’ for Jews who reject Christianity.”<\/p>\n Let me be clear, there are some politically conservative Jews who might find a way to alibi for Brickner’s quote, but never<\/span> for a church inviting the founder of Jews for Jesus.<\/p>\n In American Jewish life, inviting him to your church crosses a line that cannot be uncrossed.<\/p>\n This trumps any concerns about Obama’s middle name for the bulk of American Jews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Actually, the title is a joke, but it does reflect a sort of American Jewish political idiom that Palin will have to deal with. The problem is that her church hosted a talk from David Brickner, and unlike Obama and Jeremiah Wright, Palin was in the audience listening happily (see also here) David Brickner is …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1114,978,977,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antisemitism","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}