Author to Speak at Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture in Brooklyn on 26 January

YouTube Video POSTED of panel on new book, Rabbi Outcast: Elmer Berger and American Jewish Anti-Zionism.

Courtesy: brooklynpeace.org.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The Freda Utley Foundation announced today that a video of the National Press Club book event on RABBI OUTCAST: Elmer Berger and American Jewish Anti-Zionism, by Jack Ross (Potomac Books) has been posted at a new Rabbi Outcast YouTube channel.

Channel link is RabbiOutcast.

The YouTube video includes talks by Jack Ross of New York, author of RABBI OUTCAST; Allan Brownfeld, editor of ISSUES, published by the American Council on Judaism; Josh Ruebner, National Advocacy Director of the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, and Amb. Andrew Killgore, former diplomat and ambassador to Qatar, and publisher of THE WASHINGTON REPORT ON MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS.

Jon Basil Utley, president of the Freda Utley Foundation, (FredaUtley.com) introduces the panel discussion, which was held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., last month. The video is about 40 minutes in length.

The panelists discuss themes in the new book, including the life and times of Rabbi Elmer Berger, American Jewish history, and the rediscovery of American Jewry's dissenting tradition, in addition to the historical context of Zionism, and how Zionism affects American Jews.

UPCOMING BOOK EVENT IN BROOKLYN
THURSDAY, JANUARY 26 at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture,
53 Prospect Park West, at 7:30 p.m.
sponsored by Brooklyn For Peace and the BFP Israel-Palestine
Committee reading group is.pales@brooklynpeace.org

ABOUT ELMER BERGER: Rabbi Berger was an advocate of the traditional view of American Reform Judaism. He believed that Judaism is a religion of universal values, not a nationality, and that Americans of Jewish faith are Americans by nationality and Jews by religion just as other Americans are Baptists, Catholics or Presbyterians. His view is that religion and nationality are separate and distinct -- the position of the l885 declaration of Reform Jewish principles known as the Pittsburgh Platform. Zionism, on the other hand, believes that Jews are a national or ethnic group, that Israel is their "homeland" and that all Jews living outside of Israel are in "exile." In Berger's view, Judaism was corrupted by Zionism which made the State of Israel -- not God -- the object of worship, a form of idolatry.

MORE ABOUT RABBI OUTCAST ONLINE:
PotomacBooksInc.com: http://bit.ly/gVolHh
Amazon.com link: http://amzn.to/vSEeXI
YouTube channel: http://www.YouTube.com/RabbiOutcast

The 233-page book has 582 footnotes and contains an extensive bibliography. It is a valuable resource tool for anyone interested in a comprehensive history of American Jewish history.

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