11/11/10
11/9/10
Rabbi Levin Discovers and Opposes Anti-Jewish High School Play Rife with Immorality
בנשיאות הרה"ג ר אברהם דוב העכט שליט"א
Rabbinical Alliance of America
305 Church Avenue, Second Floor
Brooklyn, New York 11218-3105 U.S.A.
Tel. 212-242-6420 Fax. 212-255-8313
President Rosh Beth Din
Rabbi Gershon Tannenbaum
Director
RABBI YEHUDA LEVIN
RAV, KEHILAS MEVAKSHAI HASHEM
BROOKLYN, NY
718-569-8438
Ms. Diana RigbySuperintendent
Concord-Carlisle Regional School District
Ripley Building
120 Meriam Road
Concord, MA 01742
November 9, 2010
Dear Ms. Diana Rigby,
I am writing you on behalf of our 67-year-old national organization consisting of more than 850 Rabbis.
We have seen excerpts of a play entitled "Falsettos" as well as a partial transcript of some of the songs in that play.
Those of us who saw segments of this play and read from the transcript of various songs are horrified, outraged and disgusted. This makes a mockery of our religion and our Torah/Bible, which refers to Jews as "a monarchy of priests and a holy people".
What this play does is cruder than bathroom humor. We are insulted by the associating of Jews with perversion and debauchery. We don't believe you would have the "chutzpah"/temerity to make or perform such a play if it were about Arabs of the Muslim faith.
By showing this play, you have cheapened our religion and are poisoning the minds of youth who perform this debauchery and also those who view it.
We demand that you do not continue to insult us and that you never show this play again. Society has enough problems with things that seek to propel us into the sewer. This play takes us all in that direction, and we say: "No, Thanks!"
Rabbi Yehuda Levin
Spokesman
Rabbinical Alliance of America
Cc: media, Lee Ann Kay
Rabbi Levin will be in the Holy Land through Nov. 28. He can be reached by emailing rabbilevin@gmail.com.
P.S. Information about the play:
"Falsettos" is a rather long play of about two hours and 24 minutes. Marvin, his son Jason (played by a girl), his psychiatrist Mendel, and his male lover Whizzer begin the play singing, "Four Jews in a room bitching." Marvin has left his wife Trina for Whizzer. Trina later divorces Marvin and marries Mendel. Whizzer dies of AIDS. The play makes fun of Jews, while claiming God is a joke; so you might as well become a homosexual and contract AIDS and die. It's a play that creatively promotes death.
Brief highlights:
0-4 minutes: Scripture is mocked, Jewish stereotypes, nothing is funny about, "funny,
funny, funny, funny."
11:30 - 15:10: Gay activity; these men would "kill for that thrill of first love."
(sodomy?)
50:11 - 52:00: March of the Falsettos; "One butt following the other, teach it to your
brother..," "...we're lacking in maturity..."
1:19:00 - 1:23:00: Religion satirized, particularly references to son's bar mitzvah.
1:25:00 - 1:29:00: New stereotype about Jewish people, claiming Jews can't play
baseball. Marvin, his ex-wife, his ex-wife's husband, two lesbian
neighbors, and his lover, Whizzer go to watch Jason play baseball.
Whizzer gives pointers to Jason, like a dad.
1:44:00 - 1:47:05: Two homosexual men in bed.
1:57:55 - 2:02:00: Whizzer, Marvin's lover, is in the hospital dying of AIDS. Play
makes fun of Jewish food.
2:03:25 - 2:04:55: Song about passionate lovers; reference to "horny lover."
2:13:00 - end: Mockery of the Jewish bar mitzvah. At 2:17:40, the homosexual lover
"dies" of AIDS during Jason's song in Hebrew. At 2:20:19, Marvin sings
to the ghost of Whizzer - "I'd do it again, and again, and again."
Sodomy is worth the price of abandoning one's wife and child, contracting AIDS, and dying. This is the lesson of "Falsettos," while it cheerfully demeans God and the Jewish people.
11/1/10
1000 Rabbis Join Vatican Cardinal-designate in Absolutely Prohibiting Voting for Anti-Life, Anti-Family Candidates Rabbi declares “the beginning of a spiritual civil war.”
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
Contact: Rabbi Yehuda Levin, Spokesman, Rabbinical Alliance of America 718-569-8438 (call or text)
1000 Rabbis Join Vatican Cardinal-designate in Absolutely Prohibiting Voting for Anti-Life, Anti-Family Candidates
Rabbi declares “the beginning of a spiritual civil war.” MEDIA ADVISORY, Oct 31, 2010
Rabbi Yehuda Levin, spokesman for the Rabbinical Alliance of America, representing more than 1000 Rabbis, issued the following statement:
“As Rabbis we welcome with great enthusiasm and strongly endorse the inspiring and clear Pro-life, Pro-family message delivered by American Cardinal-designate, Raymond L. Burke, Prefect of the Catholic Church’s highest court, in a 25 minute video interview with Catholic Action for Faith and Family (www.CatholicAction.org) which was broadcast on EWTN and other networks to over one hundred million viewers.
In these crucial times in which we live, where many clerics tread with fear, Cardinal-designate Burke is to be commended and emulated as a voice of leadership” said Rabbi Yehuda Levin. “This moral teaching of the Catholic Church set forth in Burke’s interview with Thomas McKenna, is clearly found in the Torah and serves to give solid guidance to voters whether they are Christian, Jew or any man of faith.” Rabbi Levin continued, “The Vatican Official got it right when he stated that a voter should keep in mind the Golden Rule. He said that a voter could be asked ‘Do you follow the Golden Rule… Do you consider it really fair to advance some interest you have, which may be a good interest… at the cost of denying to other members of society, and especially those who depend upon us completely for life itself, to deny them the right to life?’”
Rabbi Levin concluded saying, “We must implement this teaching now, in the closing hours of the 2010 election cycle. We hope in the ensuing two years to have many other denominations sign on to this prohibition. This historic alliance announced today is far more important than working together for tuition tax credits for our parochial schools. Today is nothing less than the declaration of a “spiritual civil war.”
“Let no person think that this directive is merely an intellectual exercise. This is a call to action to uphold the natural and moral law with pro-active voting according to our religious values. There can be no middle ground when it comes to the Sacred Laws: MARRIAGE IS BETWEEN ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN, AND RESPECT FOR ALL HUMAN LIFE IS OBLIGATORY. NOW GO OUT, SPREAD THE WORD AND VOTE ACCORDINGLY.”
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As an Aside Rabbi Levin Added: “In light of this teaching first promulgated by the Central Rabbinical Congress “Brooklyn, NY” in 1982, it would be forbidden, for example, to vote for either New York State Senator Schumer or candidate for governor Andrew Cuomo both of whom support late term abortion and homosexual marriage; unless they renounce those positions immediately.”
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PRESS CONFERENCE INFO:
Rabbi Levin will be addressing a group of Rabbis at 10 pm November the 1st at 107 Rutledge St. , Williamsburg Brooklyn. While it will be a closed meeting, Rabbi Levin will be available to the press outside from 9:15 pm to 9:45pm.
For Immediate Release
Contact: Rabbi Yehuda Levin, Spokesman, Rabbinical Alliance of America 718-569-8438 (call or text)
1000 Rabbis Join Vatican Cardinal-designate in Absolutely Prohibiting Voting for Anti-Life, Anti-Family Candidates
Rabbi declares “the beginning of a spiritual civil war.” MEDIA ADVISORY, Oct 31, 2010
Rabbi Yehuda Levin, spokesman for the Rabbinical Alliance of America, representing more than 1000 Rabbis, issued the following statement:
“As Rabbis we welcome with great enthusiasm and strongly endorse the inspiring and clear Pro-life, Pro-family message delivered by American Cardinal-designate, Raymond L. Burke, Prefect of the Catholic Church’s highest court, in a 25 minute video interview with Catholic Action for Faith and Family (www.CatholicAction.org) which was broadcast on EWTN and other networks to over one hundred million viewers.
In these crucial times in which we live, where many clerics tread with fear, Cardinal-designate Burke is to be commended and emulated as a voice of leadership” said Rabbi Yehuda Levin. “This moral teaching of the Catholic Church set forth in Burke’s interview with Thomas McKenna, is clearly found in the Torah and serves to give solid guidance to voters whether they are Christian, Jew or any man of faith.” Rabbi Levin continued, “The Vatican Official got it right when he stated that a voter should keep in mind the Golden Rule. He said that a voter could be asked ‘Do you follow the Golden Rule… Do you consider it really fair to advance some interest you have, which may be a good interest… at the cost of denying to other members of society, and especially those who depend upon us completely for life itself, to deny them the right to life?’”
Rabbi Levin concluded saying, “We must implement this teaching now, in the closing hours of the 2010 election cycle. We hope in the ensuing two years to have many other denominations sign on to this prohibition. This historic alliance announced today is far more important than working together for tuition tax credits for our parochial schools. Today is nothing less than the declaration of a “spiritual civil war.”
“Let no person think that this directive is merely an intellectual exercise. This is a call to action to uphold the natural and moral law with pro-active voting according to our religious values. There can be no middle ground when it comes to the Sacred Laws: MARRIAGE IS BETWEEN ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN, AND RESPECT FOR ALL HUMAN LIFE IS OBLIGATORY. NOW GO OUT, SPREAD THE WORD AND VOTE ACCORDINGLY.”
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As an Aside Rabbi Levin Added: “In light of this teaching first promulgated by the Central Rabbinical Congress “Brooklyn, NY” in 1982, it would be forbidden, for example, to vote for either New York State Senator Schumer or candidate for governor Andrew Cuomo both of whom support late term abortion and homosexual marriage; unless they renounce those positions immediately.”
###
PRESS CONFERENCE INFO:
Rabbi Levin will be addressing a group of Rabbis at 10 pm November the 1st at 107 Rutledge St. , Williamsburg Brooklyn. While it will be a closed meeting, Rabbi Levin will be available to the press outside from 9:15 pm to 9:45pm.
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