Jews Being Wrong on Wright

I received this not from a friend

October 29, 2008

Dear Present and Potential Members of the Society of Jewish Ethics:

I hope that you have marked your calendars for the next meeting of the Society of Jewish Ethics, which will take place January 9-11, 2009. Highlights include plenary sessions with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright entitled, "Where's the Outrage?¡ and a timely presentation on the ethics of government power featuring Bob Edgar, the head of Common Cause. We will be introducing a more discussion-oriented format in a session chaired by Moshe Pava on immigrant labor issues that in part grows out of the crises in the kosher food industry.

You can see the exciting program attached and obtain registration materials at http://societyofjewishethics.org. The SJE meets in conjunction with the Society of Christian Ethics

The Board of SJE consists of such 'personages' as Present: David Teutsch, Toby Schonfeld, Aaron Mackler, Adrienne Asch, Jonathan Crane, David Novak, Elliot Dorff and Dov Nelkin.

I checked and sure enough, the 2009 Annual Meeting has this session:

Hyatt Regency, Chicago
January 8-11, 2009

Thursday, January 8
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
SJE Board Meeting
Location: Picasso

Friday, January 9
9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
Plenary Session: "Where is the Moral Outrage?"

Speaker: Jeremiah Wright, Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago IL
Respondent: Marcia Riggs, Columbia Theological Seminary
J. Philip Wogaman, Wesley Theological Seminary
Convener: Darryl Trimiew, Medgar Evers College

If there is any outrage to be expressed it is over a Jewish organization providing a platfrom for the Rev. Wright who can refer to Israel as a "dirty word".

How do you say: oiy vey!

Slogans

Bob Kunst suggests:

Wright's An Obamination

I think

Wright's An Obamanation

is okay.

Even

Wright's Wrong

is also fine.

Maybe

Obam-A-Wright

would go.

Wright the Wrong

The National Press Association press conference.

UPDATE

George Will wrote:-

He is a demagogue with whom Obama has had a voluntary 20-year relationship. It has involved, if not moral approval, certainly no serious disapproval. Wright also is an ongoing fountain of anti-American and, properly understood, anti-black rubbish. His speech yesterday demonstrated that he wants to be a central figure in this presidential campaign. He should be.

Wright is Wrong Again

African Americans suffered, many even horrifically, in the past. But Rev. Wright was not one of them.

How do I know? It happens that, as a Philadelphian, I attended Central High School -- the same public school Jeremiah Wright attended from 1955 to 1959. He could have gone to an integrated neighborhood school, but he chose to go to Central, a virtually all-white school that attracts the most serious academic students in the city. The school then was about 80 percent Jewish and 95 percent white. The African American students, like all the others, were there on merit. Generally speaking, we came from lower- and middle-class backgrounds. Many of our parents had not received a formal education and we tended to live in row houses. In short, economically, we were roughly on par.

I attended Central a few years after Rev. Wright, so I did not know him personally. But I knew of him and I know where he used to live -- in a tree-lined neighborhood of large stone houses in Philadelphia's Germantown section. Rev. Wright's father was a prominent pastor and his mother was a teacher and later vice principal and disciplinarian of the Philadelphia High School for Girls, also a distinguished academic high school. Two of my acquaintances remember her as an intimidating and strict disciplinarian and excellent math teacher. In short, Rev. Wright had a comfortable upper-middle class upbringing. It was hardly the scene of poverty and indignity suggested by Sen. Obama to explain what he calls Wright's anger and what I describe as his hatred.

Source

Another Wright Wrong

Wright is about to move to a 10,340-square-foot, four-bedroom home in suburban Chicago, currently under construction in a gated community.

“Some people think deals like this are hypocritical. Jeremiah Wright himself criticizes people from the pulpit for middle classism, for too much materialism,” said Andrew Walsh, Associate Director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life with Trinity College in Hartford, Conn.

According to documents obtained from the Cook County Register of Deeds, Wright purchased two empty lots in Tinley Park, Ill., from Chicago restaurant chain owner Kenny Lewis for $345,000 in 2004.



Documents show Wright sold the property to his church, Trinity United, in December 2006, with the proceeds going to a living trust shared with his wife, Ramah.

The sale price for the land was just under $308,000, about $40,000 less than Wright’s original purchase two years earlier.

Public records of the sale show Trinity initially obtained a $10 million bank loan to purchase the property and build a new house on the land.

But further investigation with tax and real estate attorneys showed that the church had actually secured a $1.6 million mortgage for the home purchase, and attached a $10 million line of credit, for reasons unspecified in the paperwork.

There is apparently nothing wrong with that, according to non-profit tax expert Jack Siegel of Charity Governance Consulting...“At least looking at it from a public document standpoint, there’s clearly not a problem that jumps out or some sort of wrongdoing,” Siegel said.

Siegel characterizes the transaction as unusual, however, because of the way Wright sold the property to Trinity and the way the deal was financed, with the attached $10 million line of credit.

Because churches are classified as private businesses, Trinity isn’t required to reveal its intended use for the line of credit. Nor, because it’s a non-profit entity, is it required to provide that information to the IRS.

Another Wrong Wrighter

Who Do You Dislike More?

The politician or the preacher?

Listen Carefully to Obabma's Pastor

Israel's a "dirty word".

It's "racist".

Israel is "connected" to 9/11.



Source via LGF

Barack Obama's Shiloh Connection

Did you know that there is a Shiloh connection to the current Democratic frontrunner for his party's presidential nomination?

Here:

...the first sermon Obama heard from Wright, the source ultimately of the title of Obama's second book and one of the central themes of his presidential campaign:

The title of Reverend Wright’s sermon that morning was “The Audacity of Hope.” He began with a passage from the Book of Samuel — the story of Hannah, who, barren and taunted by her rivals, had wept and shaken in prayer before her God [in the Tabernacle Courtyard here at Shiloh and there was only one rival, Peninah - YM]. The story reminded him, he said, of a sermon a fellow pastor had preached at a conference some years before, in which the pastor described going to a museum and being confronted by a painting title Hope.

“The painting depicts a harpist,” Reverend Wright explained, “a woman who at first glance appears to be sitting atop a great mountain. Until you take a closer look and see that the woman is bruised and bloodied, dressed in tattered rags, the harp reduced to a single frayed string. Your eye is then drawn down to the scene below, down to the valley below, where everywhere are the ravages of famine, the drumbeat of war, a world groaning under strife and deprivation.

“It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks’ greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere…That’s the world! On which hope sits!”

And so it went, a meditation on a fallen world. While the boys next to me doodled on their church bulletin, Reverend Wright spoke of Sharpsville and Hiroshima, the callousness of policy makers in the White House and in the State House. As the sermon unfolded, though, the stories of strife became more prosaic, the pain more immediate. The reverend spoke of the hardship that the congregation would face tomorrow, the pain of those far from the mountaintop, worrying about paying the light bill…

Well, that's an interesting way to get from Shiloh to Sharpesville.

And, at another opportunity, what else did BO's pastor say?

"We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost,"

This, in reference to Sept. 11.

Source

Well, if I was an Afro-American preacher, I'd say that the statement about "state terrorism" is inflammatory, mendacious and downright meanspirited and sho' 'nuf is a damnable lie. It is a blank check for evil men to kill innocents.

Wright is all wrong.

How bad, then, is Obama?