Anti-American meaning of Passover from Rabbi Waskow
March 26, 2009 Far-left, Judaism
Amy Klein reports,
On April 5, 1968, Arthur Waskow was walking to his house in Washington among rioters and armed guards. It was a neighborhood under curfew, the night after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed.
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“I was walking home past the army, and my kishkes began to say, ‘This is Pharaoh’s Army,’ ” recalled Waskow, now a rabbi who lives in Philadelphia.
This is how Rabbi Waskow describes our army and national guard who were merely trying to prevent rioters from burning and destroying our capital after that horrific event.
To describe U.S. efforts to protect our capital from even more extensive destructing than she received in such terms is as bizarre as it is deplorable. Keep in mind, this statement is decades later.
Back then, he was hardly a practicing Jew, and that night, for the first time, he really thought about what freedom meant at the Passover seder.
Uh huh. Clearly the Hagaddah teaches us we shall let the people riot and allow them to destroy their own (and others) neighborhoods. So happy you found meaning in the Exodus story, Rabbi Waskow.
Frightened and inspired, Waskow went on to write a new version of the Haggadah…
Yeah, well, your *contemporary* interpretation is going to need a new text, now, isn’t it?
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Am I the only one who questions the credibility of people who claim their kishkes can talk?
You just aren’t a spiritual person, Judi.
Not sure I get the point of this post, but funny you should mention R” Waskow. Wasn’t he the rabbi who took part in the “pray-in” after the flying imams were escorted off a plane a few years ago after freaking out the passengers?
So he wrote a new hagaddah. We can shelve it next to the feminist hagaddah, the one some self-hating survivors wrote in 1948 in which the Jews were the Egyptians and the Arabs were the Jews…
That’s because I donated my neshomo to a Federation fundraising auction a few years ago, DK. But I got a good write-off for it. They’ve asked for my liver this year.
That Rabbi Waskow sure is a wicked, wicked man!
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