(excerpted from the JTA): 'rabbi' Lynn Gottlieb endorsed the Palestinian BDS call and is a member of the advisory board and rabbinical council of the far-left Jewish Voice for Peace.
She was the only 'rabbi' to speak at a controversial 2008 interfaith dialogue dinner in New York hosted for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad....
Obama 600 'rabbis'
Dined with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad
First American rabbi to visit Tehran
Endorsement of the BDS campaign
Serves on rabbinical council of Jewish Voice for Peace
ADL calls Jewish Voice for Peace a top-ten anti-Israel group
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(from the RJC) There can be only two explanations for her inclusion in the list: 1) the Obama campaign failed to properly vet the rabbis on their official list, or 2) they did properly vet the rabbis and chose to ignore 'rabbi' Gottlieb's radical views.
Either way, this speaks volumes about the Obama campaign's judgment.
The fact that the campaign announced 'rabbi' Gottlieb's participation in "Rabbis for Obama" at around the same time that it was announced that former President Jimmy Carter -- who has met with Hamas and has been a virulent critic of Israel -- will speak at the Democratic Convention, highlights the insensitivity of the Obama campaign to the concerns of the Jewish community.
