Above image: Rabbi Hecht (centre) and Chief Rabbi Kassin, the money launderer, on the right.
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Israeli & American Jews Honor Man Who Instigated & Inspired Assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Rabin
by JOSHUA ABRAMS
EDITOR: If you think some mullahs and ayatollahs in the Middle-East are crazy, here's a bunch who are no better.
Yet today, there is no dearth of armchair pundits in the media questioning why Sikhs are supporting freedom-fighter Balwant Singh.
Balwant Singh had conspired to eliminate a mass-murderer because the Indian state was condoning, nay, sponsoring his actions, and would do nothing to stop him.
On the other hand, Rabbi Hecht was the man behind the murder of Prime Minister Rabin who was considered a threat to Jewry because he was close to bringing real peace in the Middle-East!
A group of haredi rabbis including Israel's Sefardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar, gathered in Brooklyn (New York, U.S.A.) on the morning of Tuesday, March 27, 2012, to honor Chabad Rabbi Abraham B. Hecht for his 90th birthday.
Hecht infamously labelled Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin a rodef, noting that rodefs should be killed. Rabin was assassinated not long afterward, and Hecht – who later apologized – was banned from entering Israel.
A special red carpet reception honoring the man who also serves as the president of Igud Harabanim - the Rabbinical Alliance of America - was held at the Sephardic Home in Brooklyn, NY.
The
special reception at the
renowned Sephardic Home located on Cropsey Avenue in Brooklyn was sponsored by the well known Sephardic community
leader Mr. Jack Avital and was attended by Israel’s Rishon Letziyon -
Sephardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar.
Speaking on behalf of the
Syrian Jewish community and Congregation Sharre Zion which is the
flagship Synagogue of the Syrian Jewish Community where Rabbi Abraham B.
Hecht served as spiritual leader for more than 51 years, Mr. Jack
Avital introduced the well known philanthropist and businessman Morris
Bailey who together with Mr. Jack Cayre and Mr. Stanley Chera
officially offered an apology to their life-long esteemed Rabbi and
spiritual leader Rabbi Abraham Hecht, while invoking beloved memories
and sharing their expressions of appreciation to their Rabbi and friend.
Also presenting words of greetings were Michael New the Executive
Director of the Sephardic Home.
The Chief Rabbi of the Syrian
Jewish Community Rabbi Saul Kassin - who recently pleaded guilty to money laundering! - extended warm greetings to his
colleague Rabbi Hecht, extolling the many years of Rabbi Hecht’s service
to the Syrian Jewish Community and to the Jewish people, while also serving as
the distinguished President of the Rabbinical Alliance of America -
Igud Harabanim.
In attendance were members of the Igud Harabanim
Beth Din, its Rabbinical Court led by its illustrious Rabbi Herschel
Kurzrock, together with the RAA executive director Rabbi Gershon
Tannenbaum.
The Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel noted in his warm
remarks that in reality “he did not come to honor Rabbi Abraham B.
Hecht but rather he and everyone present are honored by being able to
attend Rabbi Hecht’s 90th birthday gathering”.
“Everyone knows
the yeoman achievements and accomplishments for Torah, Judaism and world
Jewry that Harav Hagaon and Harav Hachassid Avraham Hecht Shlit ”has
accomplished within his own Community in America as well as his
exceptional leadership for Jews the world over. Here before us is a
person of great kedusha and chochma –(holiness and Torah wisdom)
“As
a devoted Chassid of the holy Lubavitcher Rebbe - Rabbi Hecht spoke out
on the issues of the day in support of the Jewish people of Israel with
selfless devotion bringing the message of Torah to all,” said Chief Rabbi
Amar.
The Rishon LeTzion blessed Rabbi Hecht to have many more
years of Nachat and happiness from his community and from his family,
the children and grandchildren and great grandchildren until the
imminent arrival of the Moshiach in this month of Nissan the time of our
redemption. Amen.
Attending the event were some of the children
of Rabbi Hecht who reside in proximity to the New York area. They are
Rebetzin Nechama Kantor, Rebetzin Esther Kaplan, both of Crown Heights
and Mrs. Shoshana Fasten of West Lawrence, New York, and Rabbi Yehoshua S.
Hecht of Norwalk, Connecticut, and many of Rabbi Hecht’s grandchildren.
[Courtesy: Failed Messiah]
March 29, 2012
Conversation about this article
1: Kevin Sealy (London, England), March 29, 2012, 9:06 AM.
The Middle-East is a real mess. Many of its Muslims and Jews, both, vie with each other to be nuttier than the other. Not unlike Protestants and Catholics everywhere, India's Hindus and Muslims, America's insane fundamentalists, and so on. They kill their peacemakers and make the craziest amongst themselves Presidents and Prime Ministers. Israel's Mr. Yahoo today is no better than the worst of them!
2: Baldev Singh (Bradford, United Kingdom), March 29, 2012, 11:36 AM.
Guru Nanak warns us that humans are easily led astray by clergy, who frighten their flock with mindless and senseless dogma for the purpose of amassing power, money and control for their church and/or themselves, and misuse scriptural writings to wield superstition and impose ignorance. It is for good reason that we are not allowed any clergy. All those in Sikhism who claim to be so are charlatans and interlopers.
3: Kulwant Singh (U.S.A.), March 29, 2012, 3:53 PM.
What really annoys me is that those armchair pundits are criticizing Sikhs without knowing the whole story. If you try and explain it to them, they don't want to listen. If Sikhs were able to obtain justice in India through peaceful, then they wouldn't be forced to find justice themselves. For the past 28 years, Sikhs have been trying peacefully to obtain justice for the 1984 state-sponsored anti-Sikh pogroms, but no sincere or meaningful steps have been taken by the authorities. Why don't the armchair pundits want to comment on that?
4: Harinder (Uttar Pradesh, India), March 30, 2012, 9:11 AM.
There is a urgent need to get a conference of "All GODS" to be organized on planet Earth. The agenda would include a "United Heaven" for all the squabbling children The One has dispatched to Earth.