Comments on: Rabbi Yehuda Levin Calls Those Who Denounced Paladino As Political Hacks

By: Dave Hirsch

Dave Hirsch — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:19:05 +0000

ThenAgain: I think Dov Hikind earned the Al Sharpton title here on YWN recently. Don’t take any honor away from Hikind or he will run to the media with a smear story against you.

By: ThenAgain

ThenAgain — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:27:06 +0000

Yehuda Levin: Al Sharpton with a bekishe

By: MazelKGH

MazelKGH — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:01:37 +0000

Funny, I posted the exact same thing yesterday on YWN as Rabbi Levin. Well, at least I tried to but it was not “approved” by the censor here. Are there no minimum ethical standards left? Politics and money as usual. It never ends. I hope Dov Hikind sits down really soon without squishing David G.

By: deepthinker

deepthinker — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:19:17 +0000

I was at that news conference yesterday, and I clearly heard Dov Hikind say that it was “Paladino, or one of his supporters” who made the Hitler comment.

So, Dov called this pres conference to condemn paladino for a statement that Dov is not even sure paladino made.–Totally irresponsible!

So, Dov, on behalf of the Jewish leaders who surrounded him at yesterday’s press conference, is antagonizing millions of New Yorkers who are in pain from the economic disaster that has befaalen them, and who are looking to Paladino to straighten out the mess in Albany.

The whole press conference was, obviously, coordinated with the Andrew Cuomo campaign, whose major strategy is to claim that Paladino is “Unqualified for office.”

Dov seduced some serious Askonim in our Chasidic community into, unwittingly, serving as surrogates for Cuomo, without regard to the potentially serious consequences of antagonizing millions of good people in New York.

Shame on you, Dov, for acting like a bomb-throwing demagogue!

By: Dave Hirsch

Dave Hirsch — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:28:36 +0000

Charli Hall again playing politics with a farce of a concerned Jew. Can you please tell me why defending a friend calling the most corrupt [and not to mention, anti-Orthodox Jew] politician names makes someone an anti-semite? Where were all of you leftists when every second high-ranking democrat called the Tea Party Nazis? Calling people names might not be nice but it doesn’t make you an anti-semite.

By: A Woman outside bklyn

A Woman outside bklyn — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:08:06 +0000

One of the most annoying, obnoxious messages I got before the primary last week was a recording from Rabbi Levin. He’s way out of line – again.

By: akuperma

akuperma — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:44:23 +0000

So the Democratic rabbis support the Democratic candidate (and presumably get lots of “pork” in return, especially since they are support candidates whose ideological positions on many issues are incompatible with Jewish tradition), and the Republican rabbis support the Republican candidate (if there is a miracle, they’ll get something but given the dysfunctional nature of New York’s GOP, that’s a long shot).

I strongly suspect that both Mr. Cuomo and Mr. Palladino are nice guys if you get to know them.

And the idiots with the insults and the slogans should probably be ignored (well, at least no one is being accused of witchcraft, in New York).

By: Moq

Moq — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 07:57:25 +0000

Why is it impossible for this man to ever speak in a respectful tone? He is a walking, talking, chillul Hashem. Especially when he claims to represents the religious world, he creates a horrible image for the general public. May Hashem grant him sanity, amoungst the other Choley Yisrael.

PS: I say this regardless of his stand on the issues. Can you imagine any respectable Talmid Chacham hijacking a press conference and saying “not the homo”???

By: apushatayid

apushatayid — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 05:25:35 +0000

Has Palladino articulated a single policy statement yet?

By: charliehall

charliehall — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 04:14:24 +0000

If Paladino hadn’t compared Sheldon Silver to Hitler and “The Antichrist” there would be nothing to complain about. Levin is really chutzpadik to complain about this. Had Al Sharpton used the same terms we would be all over him. Levin is showing the same judgement he showed when he supported Patrick Buchanan HaRasha.