smirk's rabbi - Daniel Lapin

[donsu]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/24/AR2005062401891.html

The Republicans' Rabbi-in-Arms
Christian Conservatives See a Soul Mate in the Man Who Stands by His Scandal-Ridden Friends


Every few weeks or so Rabbi Daniel Lapin finds a reason to fly east from his home in Mercer Island, Wash., near Seattle, and spend a few days here. He might be leading a Bible study on the Hill, having dinner with his "close friend" House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, breakfast with Karl Rove. Last year he came for a private Shabbat dinner with President Bush. "The president recognizes my enthusiasm for his faith," says the rabbi.

Usually on these trips Lapin stays with Jack Abramoff, a lobbyist who is an old friend of the Lapin family and one of a small elite who share Lapin's very particular niche in Washington: a practicing Orthodox Jew who is a renegade among the city's Jewish establishment but moves comfortably among conservative Christians.

Abramoff is under investigation for allegedly defrauding his Indian casino-owning clients and for allegedly breaking lobbying laws. In a stack of e-mails released this week by the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, several scandal sidekicks made unexpected cameos. Among them were Daniel Lapin and his younger brother David, rabbis from South Africa who are heirs to a 200-year-old rabbinical dynasty and very updated ambitions.

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Lately he's joined the crusade against what conservatives call "activist judges": "It's like the verse in Jeremiah where God says, I will be your king and I will be your lawgiver and I will be your judge. Therein lies the core. The founders enshrined three branches of government . . . and I find unusual this seizure of power by judges that rightly belongs to the people."
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religious con man. smells like a nazi. (don't rant on this. but as I was reading the article all that came into my mind was nazi criminal.)

[Maraya1969]

1. That man is a disgrace to his religion

"Republican principles "more closely parallel the moral vision of the God of Abraham than those of anyone else," Rabbi Daniel Lapin says"

GAG ME.............