Two Rabbis in Newsweek Top Fifty List Not From Major Branches

I wouldn’t expect Newsweek to get anything right about Judaism, and would expect their list of The Top Fifty Rabbis in America to be a joke.

But two of them in the top ten aren’t even from the branches of liberal Judaism. They are leaders of other religions entirely. That is to say, unlike the progressive branches of Reform or Conservative who wrestle to find Jewish meaning (and usually lose) in their negotiations with secularism and liberalism, these two religions represented in the top ten contain specifically foreign theological content.

Number four is Yehuda Berg, of the cult New Religion, the Kaballah Centre.

And the number one (number 1?!?) is Rabbi Marvin Hier, the leading theologian for political Holocaustism.

Holocaustism is more insidious than the Kaballah Centre, as Holocaustism is tolerated by so many in the mainstream Jewish community, and worse, it has infiltrated large swaths of Jews in all the major denominations.

We must stand up to Holocaustism, declaring to ourselves and the world that this is not Judaism. We are much deeper and complex than that, and we go back a couple of years earlier than 1933. Judaism is NOT victimology, and our past conflagration is not the burden or history of the American people. We should not be building these ubiquitous memorials and museums like they are a town mikveh. We have to try and make our own understand that the Holocaust did not happen here, and these museums and this singular, shrill, and obsessive focus is not helping us. Not outside, not inside.

If Rabbi Marvin Hier had his way, we would build a Holocaust memorial with a U.S. flag in front of it on the moon.

Hat tip: Failed Messiah