Comments on: VIDEO & PHOTOS: Hikind Slams Weprin Campaign For Running Ad With Airplane & Buildings Days Before 9/11 – Demands Apology

By: askan

askan — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:56:21 +0000

to comment #10 a jew:

Mr. Weprin is i’m sure a fine upstanding citizen. He is a shomer shabbos person and yes we can count him in our minyan. But he is not running for rosh yeshuva as he now famously said on ny 1, he is running to represent us in congress. He is running for public office not for gabbai. Personal issues aside, we are discussing his politics since this is an election for politicAL OFFICE. HIS POLITICS ARE NOT OUR POLITICS. ON SOCIAL ISSUES HIS POLITICS DO NOT REPRESENT OURS. WHY DO I HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT HIS FRUMKEIT WHEN HES NOT WORRYING ABOUT MINE? He is running to represent the frum community on a liberal lefty social platform. So yes your absolutly right, his politics and his personal life are 2 seperate issues.Thats why i’ll be happy to daven with the frum David Weprin and drink his wine. I just wont be able to swallow the other david weprin that voted against everything I beleive in.Thats why Turner has my vote.

By: a jew

a jew — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:35:11 +0000

A few weeks ago a big turner supporter wrote a piece in the 5 towns jewish times about his lunch with David weprin, that changed his view a bit.
David is a B.T. A chozer Btshuvah, that grew up in a strongly liberal political totaly secular home. He became frum on his own. He never went to the yeshivas that most of us had the zechus to attend. Was his stand on toava misguided and wrong aboslutly. Is he shomer shabbos YES, does he eat only glatt kosher YES.
Last I checked that was still the yard stick of a frum jew, we can drink his wine and count him for minyon yes.
The treatment he has received from our community may be a bit misguided, I woneer if the askanim that got the gedolim to put out their letter against him thought of any of this.
Or the repricutions of tacitly endorsing a descendant of esuv over a (misguded, not lehachis) yid

By: Homeless

Homeless — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:12:15 +0000

All this does not matter. What’s important to YWN readers is what David Greenfield has to say about all this.

By: tina18

tina18 — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:28:57 +0000

Turner will win – he got 40% against weiner when nobody though he had a chance – weprin is way less popular then weiner was – turner has real endorsements this time – I predict Turner +8

By: dontbeagolem

dontbeagolem — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:02:51 +0000

one thing is to disagree

but dov hikinds excersices in sinas chinam .. just make the chilul hashem even greater

just try to behave dov

(i wonder what hidden agenda he has to exhibit such hatred)

By: borninthebronx

borninthebronx — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:39:38 +0000

Some of you may remember the famous 1964 TV campaign ad for President Johnson’s relection. It sought to portray is opponent, Sen. Barry Goldwater, as a warmonger. A little girl was seen picking daisies. All of a sudden a huge atomic mushroom cloud explodes over the screen, followed by the caption – vote for President Johnson on Nov. 4. Despicable? Yes. Effective? Yes.

By: jewishness

jewishness — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:34:12 +0000

Anyone who votes for Weprin in the Jewish community is the worst Jew possible. Weprin stands in front of the Senate and says that as an orthodox Jew he is voting for gay rights!!

What a low life!

Vote him out!!

By: Think Straight

Think Straight — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:32:42 +0000

Town “Shrier” – you are wrong. The ad did in fact run. and the DNC is in fact running Weprin’s campaign. Heck, they just put half a million bucks in on his behalf.

By: oh_yeah

oh_yeah — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:29:49 +0000

Mr. Town crier if your for weprin and you don’t like when the truth is told about him go read cnn

By: The Town Crier

The Town Crier — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:11:26 +0000

When will all of turners sheep on the frum community explain how they feel justified in stumping for a sleaze whos lasting contrinution to society is the jerry springer show?