Israel Matzav

Like son, like father?

We already knew that his son, Marc Schneier, is a moonbat. In fact, my friend Debbie Schlussel refers to Marc Schneier as 'Al Sharpton's rabbi.' Now, Schneier's father, Arthur Schneier, one of the most senior rabbis of the Modern Orthodox community in the US gets in on the act in a big way. It's too bad they don't know how to spell 'rabbi' at al-Arabiya, so Schneier lost a letter off his title. But this one is a doozer.

One of the leading U.S. rabbis on Saturday paid tribute to UN chief Ban Ki-Moon by calling him a "mensch" -- the Yiddish word for a person of great integrity -- at a Holocaust remembrance service, a day after the UN slammed Israeli’s settlement building in the West Ban.

The UN secretary general donned a kippah skullcap to honor Jewish Holocaust dead and survivor and other top UN diplomats went to the Park East synagogue in New York, where Rabbi Arthur Schneier has in the past welcomed Pope Benedict XVI and other leading religious dignitaries.

Schneier, who himself went through the Nazi crackdown in the Budapest ghetto in World War II, highlighted the "dwindling group of survivors" from the Nazi death camps who will be honored on International Holocaust Remembrance day on January 27.

"I never thought I would see the day when I would see the German and Russian ambassadors sat next to each other here," he said.

While Ban has often had tough words for Israeli policies, the rabbi called the UN leader a believer in "compassionate diplomacy, diplomacy from the heart."

Schneier called Ban "a mensch" and said "there is no greater tribute."

Note how al-Arabiya keeps stressing over and over again (there's another time I didn't cut and paste) how anti-Israel Ban is. But that didn't phase Schneier one little bit. Like son, like father, indeed.

Labels: Arthur Schneier, Ban Ki-Moon, Holocaust Memorial Day, Marc Schneier, mentch, Modern Orthodox

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:25 PM