julie shown felled from the worldwide association of conservative rabbis. good to see you, rabbi and how are you feeling today? today is obviously a tragic and terrible day for my community worldwide. when one jew is targeted for being jewish, much less an entire community is targeted and murdered in this way, every jew everywhere in the world feels pain and suffering. feels that sense of threat. and i also believe and i have been hearing from faith leaders and community leaders of all different communities and diverse parts of the world, everybody feels that. i heard from so many who said even preceding this, there has been a constant feeling of potential threat. now that this happened strks set off or a catalyst for deeper
streets after shabbat and that we saw in this moving clip of the steelers game today. that americans stand together and say that we believe that we have to be a society that can live in safety and where our freedom to express ourselves is not allowed to be hindered by living in a situation in which we can be subject to battle grade weapons coming into a synagogue. you helped lead this assembly which is the worldwide association of conservative rabbis. what is conservatism mean. help people understand what this means. it s not an extension of a political view. thank you. when people hear it, they are not quite sure. conservative judaism is conserving our religious traditions and actually the sort of centrist, big tent place for
y2bg6y y10my the haredim trace their roots, they adopt traditions. a group of conservative rabbis rejected modernity in favor of a strict interpretation of their most holy scripture, the torah, the first five books of the hebrew bible, or old testament. they shut themselves off from the world, choosing to live in closed communities and dress in traditional garb that they felt allowed them to maintain a distinctly jewish identity. all of this made the haredim
discriminatory, different from same sex marriage. but among the democrats upset that the president is refusing to make a public decision on this before the election, ed rendell said essentially man up. make your decision and let the chips fall where they may. the reason the president could come out and criticize what happened in north carolina is because he is in favor of civil unions for gay people but he is against at least in the past gay marriage. this particular law included both civil unions and marriage. so that was why he could say that he felt it was discriminatory. here s the thing. he agrees with mitt romney about civil unions. and george bush. yes. that is why they sent out vice president joe biden and the secretary of education of all people to say that they were in favor of gay marriage. meanwhile, let s talk a little bit more about joe biden. he was yesterday in front of the rabbinical assembly in atlanta, group of about 1600 conservative rabbis. interesting, the
reagan. thank you as always for joining us. so biden was speaking before a group of conservative rabbis. he went on to say we were being criticized in european capitals for being unilateral. tehran had allies. we were not respected by our friends or feared by our opponents. what say you? getting to the point where this is like the dog ate my homework excuse. blame george bush. the fact of the matter the george bush didn t as sell bell the enter national community against iran. neither did president obama. now that he assembled the international community what has he gotten for it? reset with russia. we came up for the missile shield planned for the check public and poland in hopes russia would help us with iran. that hasn t happened. russia continues to in fact help iran s nuclear clear program. the chinese are buying more of iran s oil.