On his own website, Rabbi Ben Kamin says he is a nationally-known clergyman, teacher, counselor, and the author of five books on human values. But what Rabbi Kamin wrote today is so disgusting that it’s difficult to even know where to begin and he should be shunned by any self-respecting person.
Newsbusters has the story. You see, the kind Rabbi smears Sarah Palin by “wondering” what the life of Palin’s grandchild, son-to-be of Palin’s daughter Bristol, will be like in the year 2024. The piece has the boy being called “the bastard,” imagines Todd as a depressed loser, talks about Grandma Sarah as not really loving him, and openly mentions the possible suicide of the yet-unborn baby.
Here’s one of the opening paragraphs of the article:
Grandpa Todd doesn’t talk too much about it. He’s not around much anyway. Takes a lot of night trips across the ice and when he is home, he sleeps a lot. I went with him once or twice. There were always a lot of security people around. Some of them were cool, but others complained a lot about the cold and the dark. It really hurt me when I overheard one of them saying, “I gotta take care of the bastard.” In fact, the truth is a lot of my friends in school have called me that: Bastard. They know my name is Buck but they still do it. It makes me feel terrible.
Go over to Newsbusters and read it if you’re in a “I want to scream and pull my hair out” kind of mood.
October 5, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Disgusting but I suspect I know what the rabbi’s problem is.
October 5, 2008 at 7:33 pm
I think this is probably some do-it-yourself / Fisher-Price Play Synagogue self-ordained rabbi, rather like the clutter of fundy pray-churs we suffer in the South.
— Mack
October 6, 2008 at 2:33 am
You would think that Jews of all people would be defenders of life and the dignity of every human being.
October 6, 2008 at 5:26 am
Looks like the Rabbi’s article was yanked from the Examiner.com site.
October 6, 2008 at 1:09 pm
That’s good but it hardly excuses the writer or their decision to put it up in the first place.
October 6, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Eo Nomine sez :Eo Nomine said…
You would think that Jews of all people would be defenders of life and the dignity of every human being.
Unfortunately, you don’t seem to know much about Judaism. Remember that famous line at the end of Schindler’s list? Where Ben Kingsley “quotes” from the Talmud saying, “he who saves one life, saves the world.” The ACTUAL quote from the Talmud (tractate Sanhedrin 37a) says “Whosoever preserves a single soul of Israel (i.e. a Jew), Scripture ascribes
to him as if he had preserved a complete world”. Add to this, Judaism allows for abortion up to the 1st trimester, as they believe the soul has not left the “guff” to populate the infant in the womb until that time.
I am not saying there are Jews who differ and dissent on this (and I have met a few). But Judaism itself is simply not anti-abortion, least of all when it concerns gentiles.
October 7, 2008 at 10:47 pm
is he a friend of rev.wright? this is another obomination?
November 3, 2008 at 3:33 pm
He is not really a Rabbi – he is a reform rabbi, people who don’t believe in the word of God but rather just some semi-pseudo-spiritual cultural identity.
Now, I admit I am not a great rabbi, but I have respect for those who have ordained me as a rabbi, and to the authentic Orthodox Jewish congregation that has hired me as such.
1. According to Judaism a Bastard is not a child born out of wedlock, but rather a child born from a sinful relationship, such as incest or adultery (adultery Biblically speaking being when the woman involved is married to another man). According to the Talmud, once a Noahide (non-Jewish) couple sleeps together they are considered married, and no ceremony is required (but in today’s society it is an honorable thing to do so according to the laws of whichever land one resides).
2. Abortion is prohibited to a Jew just as mutilation of the body is forbidden without mandate (i.e. the Biblical mandate of circumsicion) or neccesity (i.e. gangreen etc.). Although it is not technically considered murder until the head or 51% of the body leaves the womb (thus making partial birth abortion murder) {this means that if a mother’s life is in danger, an abortion may be performed if the head or 51% of the body has left the womb – but once that has happened an abortion cannot be performed even if the mother’s life is in danger according to Jewish law}, but it is a grave sin that the Kabbalah compares to murder (the Zohar says in the comments on Exodus 1 that prayers are not heard as a punishment for abortion). In Noahide law the Talmud says any abortion is legally the same as murder. Thus the exact opposite is true against the above statement by deusdonat “But Judaism itself is simply not anti-abortion, least of all when it concerns gentiles.” It is actually much graver for a gentile to commit the sin of an abortion than a Jew, but in both cases it is a grave sin, in some cases actually murder and in other cases only similar to murder in a mystical sense.