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6/29/2004

Rabbi Who

Listen to Gorenfeld, Rev. Stallings and Rabbi Waldmann on WHYY

Who is Mordechai Waldman?

At the Mar. 23 Dirksen Senate Office Building event, the above gentleman blew a shofar, or ram's horn, and asked, perhaps rhetorically, "Is it time for the Messiah to come?" before Sun Myung Moon took the stage.

The above fellow phoned into "Radio Times" today from Detroit when I was on. He made the very reasonable (if retro-1986) claim that if we don't seek world peace, "we'll blow ourselves up." Unless I'm mistaken, he signed off by saying that "Abraham is the True Father." I'm not aware of many Orthodox rabbis who put things like that. And I'm not aware that Rabbi Mordechai Waldman (referred to only as "Rabbi W." in Unification Church articles), who appeared at the event on behalf of Jews everywhere, is for real. He's identified nowhere on the Web, which is unusual for such a prominent Jewish spokesman. Who is he?

This is why I love this stuff -- not, as a livid reader wrote in today, because I'd like to see anyone "crucified," but because it's all so bizarre.

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-- Ana Marie Cox ("Wonkette," Time.com Washington editor)

"Thanks to the superb reporting of John Gorenfeld on Salon.com and his indispensable Web page, Moon's shenanigans are routinely scrutinized. Maybe some of Gorenfeld's discernment will rub off on preachers and politicians."
-- Tony Norman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist

"The scene summoned the moment in Robert Graves's "I, Claudius" when Emperor Caligula declares himself a god in the Roman Senate; a fawning solon instantly offers a prayer."
-- New York Times editorial on the Crown of Peace scandal

"I am happy that our work is being challenged and improved in consistency, openness and coordination, by the accountability your spotlight demands. I am not talking about simply removing stuff from websites..."
-- Moon spokesman the Rev. Phil Schanker

"Instead of welcoming Reverend Moon, this government put me into prison. History will reveal the truth in the future and the American government and people will realize what an evil thing they did. What will they do then? They will bow down. Again, that is the way of natural subjugation." -- Moon in 1987

"A political movement basing its appeal on old fashioned patriotism and family values simply cannot justify an alliance with a cult that preys on the disintegration of the American family and advocates allegiance to an international social order operating with cell-like secrecy."
-- Rep. Jim Leach (R-IA)

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