Governor Charlie picked his ex-chief of staff to fill out the term of Sen. Martinez.
The sad thing about this man is not the fact that he is probably a Crist clone, but that I can not recall ever hearing of him before.
And he’s from my neck of the woods, although he had moved on to greener pastures in Tallahassee.
Crikey–reading his bio, I see he went to my school, Emory. It seems he majored in poli sci. Poli sci was, at least in my day, the major for pre-law students who wanted their classes to be no more challenging than was absolutely necessary to get into law school. Although he did go to Georgetown for his law degree. (Those that did want to be challenged by their classed ended up in history or business school.)
A Chabad rabbi tells us what he really think.
Like the best Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis, Manis Friedman has won the hearts of many unaffiliated Jews with his charismatic talks about love and God; it was Friedman who helped lead Bob Dylan into a relationship with Chabad.
But Friedman, who today travels the country as a Chabad speaker, showed a less warm and cuddly side when he was asked how he thinks Jews should treat their Arab neighbors.
“The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way: Destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle),” Friedman wrote in response to the question posed by Moment Magazine for its “Ask the Rabbis” feature.
Friedman argued that if Israel followed this wisdom, there would be “no civilian casualties, no children in the line of fire, no false sense of righteousness, in fact, no war.”
Backtracking by the rabbi and Chabad heaquarters at the link. Given Chabad’s political history in Israel, this is fairly consistent: and his claim that what he meant was that by being savagely tough, other people would be loath to attack the Jews is not a flight of fancy; but outside of the Settler movement, rabbis don’t normally say this sort of thing.
(I’ve encountered the Shmarya Rosenberg whom the article cites on the Internet; let’s just say that he has several axes to grind when it comes to Chabad.)
