Rabbi Barry Silver of Congregation L’Dor Va-Dor in Palm Beach County has created an initiative to assist other religious organizations with lawsuits against anti-abortion measures.
ed note–well, it’s that time once again ladies and Gentile-men where we at this humble little informational endeavor get to throw down the ‘we told ya so’ card, and particularly to all those ‘right wingers’ and ‘white nationalists’ who immediately after 9/11 took up the anti-Islamic crusade that had only ONE beneficiary–organized Jewry–under the precept that Islam was incompatible with ‘Judeo-Christian’ civilization.
We argued then–as we continue to do now–the following major protocols–
Islam and authentic Christianity, while perhaps not necessarily ‘siblings’ descending from the same parents, nevertheless are very close cousins, and furthermore those areas wherein some differences between the 2 can be found, these differences are in their essence trivial and of little importance when viewed next to the ‘big picture’ of the moral/social decline of the West that is the direct result of the concerted and highly-organized forces of anti-Gentilism–otherwise known as the ‘Sin-a-Gog of Satan’–that have been at war with the person and message of Jesus Christ for the last 2,000 years.
We argued then, as we do now, that what is needed is an alliance of the two, based upon shared values intrinsic to both the followers of Jesus Christ and the followers of Mohammed against what is our common enemy, the followers of Judah-ism who seek our utter annihilation, either through the mechanism of ‘hot war’ or the slow, radioactive death resulting from the culture war which they inflict against us through Hollywoodism, the legal system, and their Cultural Bolshevism.
Now, as far as our deranged and diabolically-possessed rabbi featured in this piece is concerned, nota bene the following–He is telling the truth. Judah-ism REQUIRES child sacrifice for the most trivial of reasons and traces the dispensation for murdering children in utero back to the earliest teachings of the Torah.
We are forced to go to lengths such as these due to what is the distressingly high number of ‘eks-purts’ whose claimed ‘eks-purtcy’ is the study of Judah-ism and the dark, aberrant behavior that has always attended the adherents of this dark spiritual energy, ‘eks-purts’ who CONTINUE to make the fallacious and impossible-to-support-with-facts assertion that all of this is due to Jews having abandoned their Torah in favor of the Talmood, when in fact, a rational, honest person can see for him/herself in a microsecond that this is not the case at all as evidenced by the following statement from one Rabbi Ed Feinstein of Valley Beth Shalom synagogue in Los Angeles, to wit–
Anti-abortion laws are particularly distressing because they contradict Jewish halakha — the laws drawn from the Torah–the most sacred and authoritative texts in the Jewish tradition…
By Daniel Arkin
The rabbi whose synagogue sued the state of Florida over a bill that would ban abortions after 15 weeks, arguing that it infringes on religious liberty, has created an initiative to help other faith organizations — and atheists — push back against anti-abortion legislation across the U.S.
Rabbi Barry Silver’s initiative, Helping Emancipate Abortion Rights Today (HEART), seeks to ‘restore abortion rights in a post-Roe v. Wade world’ and defy the ‘theocratic tyranny’ of laws that clash with the Jewish belief that abortion is a basic right and that life only begins at birth, not conception, he said in a phone interview Tuesday.
‘The initiative is designed to be able to allow any person of any belief system to challenge the anti-abortion laws on religious grounds,’ Silver said. ‘It’s the height of chutzpah for people to tell the Jewish people what the Bible means and to lecture the Jewish people on the sanctity of life.’
Silver’s synagogue, Congregation L’Dor Va-Dor, sued this month challenging Florida’s anti-abortion law, which is scheduled to take effect Friday. In the Jewish legal tradition, the suit says, ‘abortion is required if necessary to protect the health, mental or physical well-being of the woman.’
Silver said HEART will allow religious and atheist leaders in other states to essentially copy the text of his lawsuit, editing it as needed to fit the specifics of their communities and state laws. HEART will also be on hand to advise anyone who is interested in fighting anti-abortion bills on religious freedom grounds.
The synagogue’s lawsuit also argues that the law, signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis in April, violates the state constitution’s privacy protections. DeSantis has recently emerged as a key figure in the modern conservative movement, and he is widely expected to run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.
DeSantis’ office did not respond to a voicemail and an email requesting comment on the lawsuit this week. In an email to Reuters this month about the legal challenge, the governor’s office said it was ‘confident that this law will ultimately withstand all legal challenges.’
Silver, a former Democratic member of the Florida House and a civil rights lawyer, said Tuesday that he has heard from Jewish leaders across the country who are interested in filing lawsuits against anti-abortion measures in their states. He hopes he can start a trend.
‘When life begins is a fundamental religious question, and the government now is trying to answer that for everyone, based on fundamentalist Christianity,’ Silver said.
In the eyes of many Jewish leaders, anti-abortion laws are particularly distressing because they contradict Jewish halakha — the laws drawn from the Torah, the Mishnah and the Talmud, the most sacred and authoritative texts in the tradition — according to Rabbi Ed Feinstein of Valley Beth Shalom synagogue in Los Angeles.
The American Jewish community has likewise traditionally supported abortion access in overwhelming numbers.
In a 2014 survey, Pew Research Center found that 83% of more than 800 Jews surveyed said abortion should be legal in most or all cases. Seventy-five percent of Jews polled by the 2022 National Survey of Jewish Voters said they were concerned the Supreme Court would toss out Roe.