{"id":84298,"date":"2016-01-03T18:20:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T02:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=84298"},"modified":"2023-09-07T03:23:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T11:23:38","slug":"rabbi-for-trump-gets-behind-the-donald-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=84298","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Rabbi for Trump\u2019 Gets Behind The Donald on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Forward<\/a>:<\/p>\n

On Facebook there are \u201cRabbis for Human Rights,\u201d \u201cRabbis for Bernie\u201d and, until recently, \u201cRabbis for Hillary.\u201d
\nNow, these groups are joined by a rabbinical flag-bearer for Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump.
\nThe controversial GOP front-runner\u2019s fiery rhetoric about Muslims may have drawn condemnation from American rabbis and other Jewish leaders across the denominational spectrum, but that hasn\u2019t stopped Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg from cheering on The Donald.
\nA Yeshiva University-educated rabbi who is rabbi emeritus of an Edison, New Jersey, Conservative congregation, Rosenberg started a Facebook group, \u201cRabbi for Trump,\u201d on Dec. 8. (Originally called \u201cRabbis for Trump,\u201d he reportedly renamed it after failing to attract many like-minded colleagues.)
\nThe group\u2019s page has 520 \u201clikes\u201d so far, though how many of the likers are actual supporters, as opposed to interested bystanders, is anyone\u2019s guess. So far, the posts consist mostly of praise for Trump, fiery complaints about negative media coverage of the candidate, promotions of Rosenberg\u2019s book and a proud mention that Rosenberg\u2019s congregation hosted the controversial, anti-Muslim blogger-activist Pamela Geller.
\nRosenberg told the New Jersey Jewish News he started the group because Trump is \u201cthe leader among all the Republicans at this point.\u201d
\nHe added that he also \u201cwanted a vehicle to communicate a very strong message to [Trump] for supporting the State of Israel.\u201d
\nThe rabbi, who is the child of two Holocaust survivors and says he was born in a displaced person\u2019s camp in Germany, shares Trump\u2019s opposition to allowing Syrian refugees into the country.
\n\u201cMy concern is that these Syrian refugees are not being vetted by the FBI,\u201d he told the New Jersey Jewish News.
\nRosenberg, who notes frequently (and all in capital letters) on the Rabbi for Trump page, \u201cThe Nazis and Hitler murdered most of my family,\u201d told the New Jersey paper he objected to a letter signed by 1,000 rabbis several weeks ago comparing Syrian refugees to Jewish refugees from the Nazis.
\n\u201cThere\u2019s no comparison between this and the Holocaust, where Jews had nowhere to go to. Certainly in this case Europe can take them in and certainly the Arab countries can take them in. I just don\u2019t want something to happen where my children or somebody else\u2019s children live. I think it\u2019s a disservice for Holocaust survivors to make the comparison,\u201d he said.
\n\u201cThe truth is my parents had to go through all sorts of checks and be sponsored \u2026 They had to have jobs. I know more about being a refugee than many of these rabbis.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Forward: On Facebook there are \u201cRabbis for Human Rights,\u201d \u201cRabbis for Bernie\u201d and, until recently, \u201cRabbis for Hillary.\u201d Now, these groups are joined by a rabbinical flag-bearer for Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump. The controversial GOP front-runner\u2019s fiery … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29752,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-rabbis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151251,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84298\/revisions\/151251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}