I don’t think there’s anyone on Youtube who matches Brother Nathanael for hatred of Jews, Jewish conspiracy theories, and total views. Ironically, Brother Nathanael was born Jewish.
Just by looking at him, you’d never guess anything was wrong.
Modern Orthodox shuls don’t tend to attract as many nutters as the haredim because they primarily appeal to the rich and well-adjusted (in both the Gentile and Jewish worlds).
From Metapedia, a source sympathetic to his POV:
Milton L. Kapner✡ (born 5 September 1950), also known as Brother Nathanael, is a writer, political and religious activist from the United States. Born to a Jewish family, Kapner was drawn to the figure of Jesus Christ and after a time around the Jews for Jesus movement, converted to Orthodox Christianity in 1988. Kapner spent some years around the Greek Old Calendarist movement in Massachusetts, even becoming a novice at the Holy Transfiguration Monastery of the HOCNA, as well as later with the American diocese of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church in Colorado.
Kapner is best known, however, for his activism on the internet. On his website, Real Jew News, which was for a time known as Real Zionist News, he creates well researched and objectively true articles exposing the crimes of his former Jewish supremacist co-tribesmen.
By David Abel | Globe Staff | 12/27/2002
BROOKLINE — When he first showed up a few months ago, the bearded man in the bright Sephardic yarmulke stood out from the synagogue’s other congregants. For one thing, he carried a crucifix. During services, he constantly walked in and out of the sanctuary. And after the rabbi’s sermons, the former salesman would clap – a no-no in any temple.
At Young Israel of Brookline, the first impulse of most congregants was to help Milton Kapner, a 52-year-old fellow Jew who had been living in his green Buick since the summer. The rabbi welcomed him to services, answered his questions in classes, and bought him a membership to a health spa so he could shower. Others offered him clothes or took him out for dinners at nice restaurants. One woman even gave him a place to stay for the night.
But after a few months – when, temple officials say, he harassed congregants, crashed a wedding, and twice forced them to call the police – they barred him from the synagogue. Most recently, Kapner, who plays music for money in Harvard Square, stood in front of the temple and heckled congregants as they arrived for services.
“We don’t know what to do with him,” said Jerry Baronofsky, the orthodox synagogue’s president, who has sought help from Jewish Family and Children’s Services, a social-services provider. “We want to help him, but the truth is we’re not sure the best way to go about it.”
It’s a quandary common to many churches and synagogues: As more needy people seek shelter and sustenance from religious institutions, where does a congregation draw the line between its interests, whether it be security or order in the sanctuary, and its mission to help the poor?
Clergy members at churches and synagogues throughout the area say they’ve seen a rise in the number of needy people, many of them homeless, who slip in for meals after services or sit quietly to stay warm for a while.
For the most part, unless they’re disruptive, the needy are welcomed, or at least tolerated…
For the congregants of Young Israel, which like many synagogues is increasingly security-conscious since Sept. 11, Milton Kapner never posed a physical threat. But the fast-talking guest, who told congregants he graduated from Columbia University and lost his home in Needham, began making people feel uncomfortable, even chasing some away from services.
“The truth is he was welcome here, as long as he followed the rules,” said Robert Wolff, the synagogue’s former president. “But after a while, people lost their patience.”
Approached recently at the McDonald’s on Harvard Street, where he often cajoles people to buy him a free meal, Kapner refused to speak. In a previous phone interview, he complained: “I’ve been excommunicated. It’s the worst thing that can happen to a Jew.”
A few days later, after a crossing guard reported Kapner was endangering himself walking through traffic on Washington Street, he ambled into Brookline District Court and started screaming, police said. Health officials decided to commit him to a hospital, where he will stay until doctors release him.
“Maybe this is the best thing for him,” said Baronofsky, Young Israel’s president. “Hopefully, it will help.”
